Godsend Richness

An email from my spam box:

"FROM THE DESK OF MADAWI ATASSI
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) OUAGADOUGOU ,
BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA .
RE-TRANSFER OF ($10.500.000.00 USD)
(TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)

Dear ,

As-Salaam Alaikum

Transfer to overseas ($ 10.500.000.00 USD) Ten million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from the Bank of Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds quietly.

I am MR MADAWI ATASSI, the accountant personal confidant to Dr. Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding in Boston.

Mr. Rainer F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened in a Bank of Africa in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and development of his company before his untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is (USD 10.500,000.00)Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want tofirsttransfer$1,500.000.00( One million five hundred thousand USD) from this money into a safeaccountabroad, after which we will transfer the remaining (9M) but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.However, I am revealing this to you with believe in ALLAH that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only per son that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently.

Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you,upou your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look forward to your earliest reply . madawi_atassi@voila.fr

Sincerely,
ALLAH BLESS YOU.
MADAWI ATASSI
BANK OF AFRICA"

On average, I receive at least 2 such emails per day. Of course there are also other junkmails promoting all sorts of things, including free pornographic website passes, cheap Viagra pills from online pharmacies, medications and natural food supplements (with money-back guarantee) to enlarge the size of my manhood, lottery winnings to the tune of millions etc.

But the above email is still the evergreen. At a rough count from the many, many similar emails I've been receiving over the years, there must be thousands and thousands of dormant accounts in the Bank of Africa. And all those dormant accounts are worth millions!

I can only guess that it's still worthwhile for these people to continue this kind of modus operandi to con people. I guess greed is a common human weakness. Out of the billions of people in the world, even if 0.00001% fell for this scam, that is good enough.

This particular email is more unique than the rest in that the author is attempting to rely on religious approach on me (a very, very wrong thing to do!). I am the last person in the world who'd be affected by what appears like religious people.

I enjoy this line:

"However, I am revealing this to you with believe in ALLAH that you will never let me down in this business..."

And I like the closing too:

"Sincerely,
ALLAH BLESS YOU.
MADAWI ATASSI
BANK OF AFRICA"

I wonder how does Mr Atassi's god feel about him stealing money owned by somebody else... HAHAHA!