For some reason, I have been ignored by the Nigerian scam people up until now, but they are certainly making up for lost time.

I am tempted actually to reply to one, enclosing the details they ask for (the information in itself can be of no use to them) just to see what the follow-through will be.

I think the one I shall go for is from Mr Williams Dangore

Dear sir.

Please, this proposal to you is strictly confidential with due respect. I am very Sorry for the stress you might have in receiving this letter from me, since we have not known ourselves or met previously despite that I get to write you this little message, because I am constrained to send you this message due to the urgent of it.

My name is Williams Dangore and my younger sister is Marcel, I am the first son of my late father Mr. Mathew Sese Dangore a cocoa farmer here in Abidjan. It happen that my father was one of the business men killed by the Rebel when they overtook our village Bouake on September 2002, during this time the Rebel wanted to takeover the present government, but they failed, Since then life is very difficult for us here in Abidjan.

Now that the war is a little cool I and my mother want to transfer the sums of $15,000,000.00 out of the country due to there is no political stability here, this was the money my father deposited in a bank here in Abidjan, and we want this money to be transfer to overseas where we can invest it in a good business. The funds are kept in account in a bank to avoid detection, seizure or diversion, and agreement was sign between my late father and the bank that the money can only be release to me as the next of kin in some condition which made me to contact you as a foreigner for assistance. But this condition will be review to you immediately you indicate your readiness to assist us.

My mother have a telephone discussions with the director of costumers service of the bank, who has express his willingness to help us to transfer this money into any account that we are going to provide, provided we will meet the bank transfer requirements.

This is why I am contacting you to be my father partner to help me by receiving these funds on our behalf. I and my mother have resolved to give you any agreed percentage of the total money as commission for your assistance. Please, you will need to give me sufficient assurance that if you assist me you will not divert this funds, this fund are what me my mother and my younger sister have got to live on. Please, as I am reposing my confidence in you I hope you will not disappoint me in any way.

I want you to forward your phone / fax number to me this will enable me fax you all the legal documents concerning this funds issued by the bank to my late father on the day the money was lodge into the bank, for you to confirm the authenticity of my claim and I will also send a copy of my international passport together.

You will as well help us arrange for our resettlement out of this trouble Cote d'Ivoire.

If this interests you please get back to me very soon for more information.

Thanks.

God bless you.

Williams.

btw, I can heartily recommend the link in lamarca's post above to the article by Douglas Cruickshank on the literary merits of the Nigerian scamsters. To dismiss them as "illiterate" is totally to miss the point.

Murray