The english is getting better
 

This is my third time of sending you an e-mail without any reply, I
told you about a deal on an investment account total Ј10.5million GBP
belonging to my late client Alfred who shares the same last name with
you.

My proposal to you is that since I have exclusive access to his file,
you will be made the beneficiary of these funds. On verification,
which will be the details I make available to Bank holding funds, my
company through our lawyer will instruct the bank to make payments
to you. You do not have to have known him. I know this sounds a bit
heavy and complex but believe and trust me as it is achievable. For
your assistance, I propose we split the funds in half and share it
equally. This practice is not unusual in the banking sector here in
the UK. The other option is that the funds will revert back to the
state, where it may be shared by State officials.

Nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never
come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have
learned from my private investment clients, We should act swiftly on
this if you are in agreement and please get back to me immediately,
I am contacting you independently and no one is informed of this
communication.Please do keep this confidential, I await your prompt
response to my private email: sctlindemann@gmail.com

Best Regards,
Scott Lindemann.

You didn't reply???
Now that's just rude....

I wonder how you got on so many sucker lists? You seem to get those all the time.

Just lucky I guess.

The sad thing is there are still people stupid enough to fall for those or they would stop sending them.

Wow, what a name that client had, Alfred Red-beard! Who'd a thunk it.

This is my oldest e-mail address. It is also my "throwaway" e-mail account, what I use in case some one might sell the e-mail. These all end up in the junk e-mail list, but I usually take a quickie look before I delete them. If something is interesting, I bring it up.

A long time ago, I did get an e-mail that started as:

Dear Mr. Beard,

I laughed pretty hard at that...

There's an episode of "intervention" where a guy is addicted to 419 scams. And morphine. And meth. His family knows they're fake and the beg and plead for him to stop, but in the show he mentions he's about $500,000 into it.