This can't be true can it? How could anyone fall for such a stupid scam? I do recall one freeper playing the scammers.. he told them his name was Al Bundy.. here's a link: Lowbridge Scambaiting The 419 Email Scammers (Gloria)
It must be working or they would be giving up. I remember getting one of these in 1995, addressed to our controller. We were on the floor laughing. Then the next day there was a story about a local company that had to go bankrupt because it fell for it. There was a story late last year about a guy who lost all his life savings and still thought he was going to get paid off. "Patrick is such a nice person, he would never steal from me."
Never mind that it was $15 million for doing nothing. Some people are just terminally stupid.