I just received one of those funny scam mails where you are supposed to give up your bank info to supposedly share some wealth with some foreign person of certain eminence or prestige. This may not seem like a big deal, and it really isn't--though I hardly get spam at all--practically one message a month! As for messages of this specific sort (as opposed to enlarging one's manhood and all that other JUNK), I get something like this once a year! I find the message humorous, and so I will post it:
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Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Albert Gaston  I work as a Manager with one 
of the international bank here in Burkina Faso. Although the world is 
very small place and hard place to meet people because you don't know 
who to trust or believe, but as I have developed my trust in you after 
my praying, i made up my mind to confide this confidential business 
suggestion with you.
Be rest assure that everything will be 
handled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity which we 
cannot afford to miss as it will make our family profit allot.
It
 has been 7 years ago, that most of the greedy African Politicians used 
our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political 
advisers,most of the funds which they transferred out of Africa was gold
 and oil money that was supposed to used to develop the continent. 
The
 Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to 
foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the 
funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was 
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being 
closed after the transacfer.
I acted as the Account Officer to 
most of the politicians and when i discovered that they were using me to
 succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking 
records from the Bank files and no body cares to ask me because the 
money was too much for them to control.
As am sending this 
message to you, I was able to divert Ten Million five Hundred thousand 
United State Dollars ($10.5M) to an escrow account that belonging to 
unknown person in bank. 
Now the bank is very anxious to know who
 is the real beneficiary of the funds because they have made a llot of 
profits with the funds. It has been more than six years now and
 most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds 
overseas, majority of them don't have the power again, because their 
tenure has expired. The $10.5 Million Dollars has been lying in the bank
 as unclaimed fund.
I will soon retire from the bank and without 
wasting time i will like the fund to be transferred into your account, 
so that i will come over there in your country to capitalise the fund, 
The money will be shared at the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you 
.There's no one that is going to ask you any question about the funds 
because everything is well secured with good arrangement. 
If you
 are interested in this transaction, do not hesitate to reply me back, 
but if you are not interested delete my message from your box.
Hoping to hear from you soon. 
Thanks, 
Mr.Albert Gaston  . 
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Hahahaha, ha.....ha.....hahaha......HA!
This is how I imagine 'Albert Gaston' looks:

