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Last day I received an offer to make an easy million dollars. Since I am a very generous person I am going to share it with you.

My Dear,

I am Mrs. Mayi Seka,from the Republic of Cote D’Ivoire in
West Africa. I lost my husband a couple of months ago. My
Husband was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting
board until his death. He was assassinated by the rebels
following the ongoing political uprising here in my
country. Before his death he deposited the sum of
US$8.500.000(Eigth Million Five Hundred thousand United
States dollars),here in a security company which was for
the importation of cocoa processing machine.

Note,according to my late husband,the money is in a trunk
box and he did not disclose to the security company the
real content of the box for the safety of the money
according to him, he decleard to the security company that
the box contains a family valuables.

I want you to do me a favour,to help me invest this money
into a good business line after retreiving the trunk box
from the security company for the future benefit of our
both family. I will offer you 15% of the total sum for
your humanly assistant after the retreiving of the box
from the security company.

I have plans to do investment in your country,like real
estate and industrial production. This is my reason for
writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist me and
my son who is seriously sick now in the hospital, indicate
your interest in replying soonest.

Meanwhile I would like you to keep this transaction
confidential for safety reason.

Best Regards,
Mrs. Mayi Seka

In case you are interested, please contact Mrs. Mayi Seka at her home address :

Mrs.Mayi Seka
Abidjan-Cote D’Ivoire
West Africa

A Google search on this turned this up. Scroll to the end of the page.

I can’t imagine anybody will fall for this. But if somebody thinks that it is worth his/her time to send this email to people, then I guess there should atleast a few people who might have responded. I have received several variations of this over the past several years and never once did I think this could real. Once I received an email like this:

Dear Friend,

This letter might come to you as a surprise as we have not met before,but I believe that you would be compelled to help me after going through the contents of this letter. My name is Mr Samuel Richard Duke, a divorce, I am a Zimbabwean. I am a farmer in Zimbabwe. Basically, I was involved in Agricultural production, until August (2003), when the government of Robert Mugabe decided to seize all farm-land(s) owned by whites in Zimbabwe (without compensation). He (Robert Mugabe) did not stop at that he also went on to expel all White farmers in Zimbabwe.

He implored the services of his war veterans to undertake his seizure.The war veterans have been accused (correctly) of being behind the violent occupation of white-owned commercial farms in which an estimated 70,000 farm workers have been displaced. At least,over hundreds white farmers and black settlers have been killed since the farm invasion began in February 2000 Link{www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,536901,00.html}Although we know that we are taking a great risk by staying here in Zimbabwe. At the Moment, our phone lines are bugged, and all our movements are being monitored by Zimbabwean (Robert Mugabe’s)secret Police.

Therefore email is the safest means of communication for now. We have taken our case to the United Nations and even with the threats of transactions and the subsequent sanctions from the West against the Zimbabwean authorities, Robert Mugabe still remains adamant. He is insisting that our farm land (some of which we bought with our money and most of which We inherited from our fathers) belongs to the (his) government of Zimbabwe. Since I could not keep the money in Zimbabwe, I used the services of a Diplomatic Courier Company to move this money (registered as official documents) out of Zimbabwe to Abroad. At present, my money totaling US$17,750,000(seventeen million,seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The fund is in oversea and hopefully it would be paid into an offshore account. Can you help me? Are you trustworthy? Can you handle this money? Are you capable of handling this money? If you can, please contact me All you need to do is to claim this money from the Courier Company. For your assistance, you will be entitled to 20% of the total sum. You are also obliged to help/advise on the proper and most convenient way of investing this money in your country, hopefully, You will consider this request and respond positively.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Samuel Richard Duke.

Just for fun I replied to the email asking for more details. A prompt reply came as follows:

Hello,

Thanks for your quick response.Am sorry for the communication gap,my yahoo bus has being have singing in problem.I am willing to proceed with you as long as we both can understand each other. My main concern is that, can I trust you with my money without the fear that as soon as you get your hands on it you will turn around and disappear.
It is true that a transaction of this magnitude cannot be realized without trust, but I hope that at the end we both will get what we want out of this transaction.
For me the peace of knowing that my money is no longer dormant and can start yielding some interest and also the opportunity for me to live this country and for you the 25% which I will be offered for your time and assistance in this venture.
The money which am asking you to assist me in claiming is in cash inside a trunk box which I have deposited in a security company in Europe.
What you are required to do is very simple and straight forward.
For you to claim the box, I will need to write a power of attorney and for this I need your Full name, Address and phone numbers.
After I have written the PA,I will then give you the contact of the company for you to contact them and arrange for the release/delivery of the box to you.
It is most likely that the company may required you to come to there office and sign the necessary release documents before they can facilitate delivery.
This is also advantageous since it provides you the opportunity to confirm that the content of the box is intact.

Before we go further, I would like to know a bit about you,

how old are you?

What is your profession?

Finally would you be able to travel for this venture?

If not you can as well as let me know so that you will have to arrange with the security company to make the delivery to any chosen address of yours.
Please I want to stress another point which is that I want this venture to remain confidential until the box is secured and the money safely put out in your account or any of your business account. On no circumstance is any third party to know about this transaction without my consent.

Please respond so that we can proceed further.

Regards,

Mr Richard Duke.

At first I thought of replying with some bogus info to see how they will proceed, but later I decided not for pursue it any further (having seen too many Hollywood movies where practical jokes turn into nightmares ).

If you don’t know how this scam works, see this. It is also known as 419 fraud or Nigerian money offer.