Many of you folks must be aware but for those who aren't please take this seriously.

There are many people in the world whose profession is this. They send such mail as i have pasted to you and promise you money in millions of dollars! Actually in reality they drug-deal with your money and run away with it.

Here is copy of the original letter i recieved:

PLEASE NEVER REPLY TO SUCH MESSAGES AT ALL- SPAM THEM AT FIRST.

Dear Friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise.I will like to
introduce my self to you.I am the manager of bill and exchange BANK OF
AFRICA (B.O.A) at foreign remittance department .There is a business I
would
want you to champion for me.In my department we discovered an abandoned
sum
of ($31.500.000 U.S) thirty one million five hundred thousands  US
dollars)
. In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died
along
with his entire family in 11th september 2001 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about the death of our deceased customer, we
have
been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because
we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or
relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines,but
unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin's or relation died along side
with
him at the plane crash leaving nobodybehind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody
is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as
unclaimed Bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if
such
money remained unclamed after six years, the money will be transfered
into
the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned
by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand
as
next of kin to a foreigner. I agreed that 20 % of this money will be
for you
as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account,10 %
will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 70%
would be
for me. There after I will definatelyvisit your country for
disbursement
accoding to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin
of the
deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your
private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location
where in the money will be remitted.All modalities of this transaction
have
been carefully worked out and once started will not take more than
fourteen(14) working days, with your full support. this transaction is
100%
risk free.it involve no any implication and no any precaution there
after.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of
the application.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of
fear
as all required arrangements have been made for thetransfer.You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,
Amidou Sokodia Mr
Bill and exchange manager,
Bank Of Africa (B.O.A)

I however replied as 'please donot send me any messages' and this is what he responded