You know that you should be asleep when you start reading spam mails. Most of my spam gets filtered out so it was actually a long time ago that I got a Nigerian 419 in my inbox. It was rather amusing. It begins with the rather polite apology for possibly insulting my morals…
Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics. I will first introduce myself as Mr. Amos Tower, an Auditor with Bank of Scotland, here in london,England.
It then goes on to explain that a bank account containing 15 million pounds has been untouched for three years and that the owner of the account had died five years ago in a airplane crash. The inability to do math here is an easy mistake. That the account has been used despite the holder being been dead… probably some late credit card slips…
The letter ends with the totally re-assuring words
This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act.
A risk free transaction 😉 All they want from me is to “stand in as the next of kin” and withdraw the money. They don’t even want anything in return 🙂 Its probably that they just don’t want that kind of money lying around?
I really should go to sleep instead of reading spam after midnight.