erinja:
This was a funny one - a guy got a spammer to send him two wood carvings.
http://www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm

That's very funny, here's another good one.

Spam

so i got that last spam message that everyone talked about last week, and today i got a new one,

as follows,...

From: jack88
Date: 2008-05-02 16:26:16
Subject: From Jack Dikko

From Jack Dikko
Address avenue 5 lot 172 Cocody
Quarters Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire West Africa
Tel: +225 66894491

URGENT ASSISTANCE

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you, am able to come across your personal profile ,and i know that this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before.email : jack_dikko_88@yahoo.com

Afer you receive this mail kindly contact me on my private e.mail contact below. before i forget i will like to introduce my self to you , I am Jack Dikko, the Only son of the late Mr and Mrs Fota Dikko , my father was a gold and cocoa merchant based in accra, ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips, before the death of my late father in a private hospital here in Abidjan.

He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of usd $6.5m (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand U.s), deposited in a suspence account in one of the prime bank here in abidjan ivory coast, that he used my name as his only son for the next of kin in depositing of the fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of his existing cocoa business and real estate management overseas. Dear friend, I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways.

1) To assist me in retriving this money from the bank.
2) To serve as the guardian of this fund.
3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a residential permit in your country moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund to your nominated account overseas, and also 3% of any expences that may occure during the transaction .

Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within seven (7) working days you signify interest to assist me. please get back to me in my email : jack_dikko_88@yahoo.com

I will like you to forward to me your full contact information so that i will give you more detail and contact of the bank that holding this money

Your full house addrees ........
Your phone / Fax number .......
Your full name ........

Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,
Jack Dikko.
Tel: +225 66894491

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its really sad that people might fall for something like this.

Apparently they do sometimes.

In fact I have heard that "419" scams are Nigeria's second biggest industry after oil.

Senlando, you missed at least one more in the interim.

An FYI to everyone - please report these spams to the team. Team members don't always receive these spams, so the best thing you can do when you get one is report it, so we can delete the user.

Erin