Continuing with the recent theme of spam, here's another which I got today:

From: "Skye Bank Nig Plc"
Subject: ATTN: BENEFICIARY
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:19:10 +0200

ATTN: BENEFICIARY
MR. OBI DODO
UNITED NATIONS CRIME PREVENTION UNIT,
AFRICA CHAPTER.

I am delighted to inform you that the UNITED NATION CRIME PREVENTION
UNIT Management through the Office of the SKYE BANK GOVERNOR and other
bank directors have decided to call back all approved fund Payment
through offshore payment centers to the bank treasury following Interception
of the UNITED NATION CRIME PREVENTION UNIT AND WORLD BANK and have
concluded arrangements to pay you the sum of US$10.5m by cash through the
Diplomatic Agents who will bring the cash in a Machine sealed
consignment to you in the United States as my bank has temporarily stopped
further payment via wire transfer.

In this regards we are going to send your inheritance/contract payment
to you via our accredited Diplomatic Agent/shipping Company and we have
secured every needed document to cover the money. Note: The money is
coming on 2 security proof box. The box are sealed with synthetic nylon
seal and padded with machine. Please you don’t have to worry for
anything, as the Transaction is 100% risk free. The Boxes are coming with A
Diplomatic agent who will accompany the boxes to your house address.

Kindly re-confirm to me the followings:

Your Full Name.
Phone, Fax and Mobile.
Address.
Age and Marital Status.
Nearest airport

The Diplomatic Attached will travel with it. They will call you
immediately they arrive in your countries airport to your house. I hope you
understand me.

Note: The diplomat does not know the original contents of the boxes.
What l declared to them as the contents is Sensitive Photographic Film
Materials for security reasons. I did not declare money to them please.
If they call you and ask you the contents please tell them the same
thing Ok. You will secure the Diplomatic immunity clearance certificate and
the Certificate of fund ownership, without this two certificate, your
Payment fund will not be approve, can not be courier for this payment
season, the needed certificate will Make it pass every custom Checkpoint
all over the world without hitch.

Confirm the receipt of this message and re-send the requirements to me
immediately you receive this message. Please I need urgent reply
because the boxes are Schedule to live as soon as we hear from you. I will
try to contact you today again and attached the money as being taken to
the diplomat service company for delivering. You are to call/email me
for further directives.

Thanks
Yours Truly,
MR. OBI DODO
UNITED NATIONS CRIME PREVENTION UNIT,
AFRICA CHAPTER.

[End Email]

Let's see, as Gisele Bündchen, "the world's richest model" once asked, "Can I get that in euros?"

Last time I looked, one euro is worth $1.40 U.S. So, 2,490,000 euros = $3,486,000! Whoo!! Let's hope they honor my request.

The best part? I never even signed up! Just today I received word from Harvard, in the form of an email. Here it is:

From: "Donald Baldwin" <Hotlotto@camail.harvard.edu>
Subject: Hello!
To: [Blank]

Dear Winner,

Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) New Year Promo

This is a Re-Notification of your unclaimed winning which we ran on our automated computer ballot of most of our unclaimed winnings.Your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the unclaimed winnings category "Hot Ball: 16" with the following numbers attached Ref Number: PW 9590 ES 9414, Batch Number: 573881545-NL/2006 and Ticket draw Number: 2, 19, 22, 26, 32, You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $2.49 Million Million (TWO MILLION Four Hundred And NINETYThousand United States Dollars) from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

Draw Details:
Ref Number: PW 9590 ES 9414
Batch Number: 573881545-NL/2006
Ticket draw Number: 2, 19, 22, 26, 32,
"Hot Ball: 16" WINNER ONLY
Draw Date: Wed Jan 2 '08

To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our accredited claims agent above for immediate processing of your winning with the information below:

Claims Agent:-
Robert Smith
Email: musl0093@gmail.com

Name In Full,
Address In Full,
Telephone/Fax number In Full,
Nationality,
Age,
Country,
Occupation

Yours Faithfully,
Donald Baldwin
Lottery Coordinator.
HOT LOTTO

This advice complies with the Anti-Fraud section 2,sub section (iv) of the procedural manual of the funds disbursementagreement existing between the e-Lottery syndicates, UK Govt. and the EU Gaming Commission.

Congratulations from all members and staffs of this program.
Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) New Year Promo
http://www.lotteryusa.com/lottery/HL/HL_fcur.htmlulations

You'd think Harvard would know better than to send out an email where the words run together at parts, and the only link doesn't even work. If you visit that site, it says, "LotteryUSA page lotteryHLHL_fcur.htmlulations not found." It seems the "ulations" part after the ".html" was likely a portion of a previously typed (or generated) "congratulations."

But I'm rich!

Note for those who don't get the gag: This was a spam email sent in an effort to get my personal information. The "legitimate" Harvard sender tells me to forward all my personal info to some random guy "named" Robert Smith, reachable at a disposable email address (musl0093@gmail.com). It didn't mention me by name or email address so that the same message, word for word, could be sent out to many, many others, soliciting their personal information as well. If you get a similar message, or one that sounds too good to be true, always keep in mind the possibility that it is fraud.