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I just recived this in my inbox, its really rather disturbing that they think that anyone will fall for this (though I did see this on TV where this couple lost about £60k to whoever runs this), anyway I sent them a lengthy mail telling them to destroy my info and whatnot...

<scam>
Dear Sir,
>
>I am John Ajayi, Manager of Zenith Bank ,Lagos,
>Nigeria.This is an urgent and very confidential business proposition.
>
>On 20th Dec, 1998,a Foreign Oil consultant/contractor
>with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
>Mr.Barry
>elly made a numbered time(Fixed) Deposit for
>twelve calendar months, valued at
>US$26,500,000.00,(Twenty-six Million, five hundred
>thousand Dollars) in my branch.
>
>Upon maturity,I sent a routine notification to his
>forwarding address but got no re
>ly. After a month,we
>sent a reminder and finally we
>discovered from his contract employers, the Nigerian
>National Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Barry Kelly
>died from an automobile accident.
>On further investigation,I found out that he died
>witho
>t making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his
>next of kin was fruitless.
>
>I therefore made further investigation and discovered
>that Mr. Barry Kelly did not declare any kin or
>relations in all his official documents,including his
>Bank Deposit pa
>erwork in my Bank. This sum of
>US$26,500,000.00 has carefully been moved out of my
>bank to a security company for safekeeping.
>
>No one will ever come forward to claim it.
>According to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5
>(five) years, the money w
>ll revert to the ownership
>of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim
>the fund.
>
>Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as
>an Foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money I
>deposited it in a security company in two trunk
>oxes
>though the security company does not know the contents
>of the boxes as I tagged them to be photographic
>materials for export.
>
>I am writing you because I as a public servant,i
>cannot operate a foreign account.
>
>I want to present you as the
>owner of the boxes in the
>security company so you can be able to claim them with
>the help of my attorney. This is simple.I will like
>you to provide immediately your full names and address
>so that the Attorney will prepare the necessary
>documents w
>ich will put you in place as the as the
>owner of the boxes.
>
>The money will be moved out for us to share in the
>ratio of 70% for me and 30% for you. There is no risk
>at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will
>be done by the Attorney an
> this will guarantees the
>successful execution of this transaction.
>
>If you are interested, please reply immediately via my
>email address Upon your response,I shall then provide
>you with more details and relevant documents that will
>help you unde
>stand the transaction.
>
>Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest
>assured that this transaction would be most profitable
>for both of us because I shall require your assistance
>to invest my share in your country.(Buying of
>properties like
>houses, hotels etc).
>
>Please do send me your private telephone and fax
>numbers so that we can have a smooth communication.
>
>Awaiting your urgent reply via my email.
>
>Thanks and my regards.
>john Ajayi,
>Manager,
>Zenith Bank International Plc.
>
>
>
</scam>

That's an old one.

Classic. The Nigerian spam business is nasty stuff-- just ignore it. People have fallen for, and died over, the nonexistant money mentioned in these letters.

Still it makes me wonder where he got my address from, its the first dogey email i've gotten (well apart from normal spam but thats blocked now).

All over the place . Half the newsletters and 'secure' sites you sign up to sell your email to spam businessess. The fact that you have it in your profile makes it incredibly easy for spambots to harvest it. On top of that, it's hotmail, and hotmail addressess are incredibly easy to collect.

Ah well at least im not dumb enough to sink any money into it

you where dumb enough to reply though ...NEVER reply to this cr*p, you just volenteered your e-mail addy for inclusion in a spammers cd, never reply to spammers, they love it if you do cos then they can add you to the "active address" list and just spam you more and pass your email around to there spamming mates, they won`t realy take you off the list..did you realy think they would?, they just pass your name around more.

Mentor.

I got one like this ages ago, some Nigerian wanted to smuggle $32,000 into the US and wanted me to give him my bank acount details, along with some other people, so he could smuggle the money. Apprently i was hand picked to do it, which is fantastic because i'm not even a US citizen...in fact, i'm not even on the same landmass. I'm in Scotland. I laughed long and hard. -Dave

They sent out letters that tell you you've been carefuly hand picked because you're trustworthy, etc, by the millions. Never believe anything you read in spam. Lies are lies...