I found this amongst my e-mails last week.....
A blonde Cap to the best suggested reply. I have edited the e-addy.
".....ATTN: PLEASE HELP ME OUT OF THIS TROUBLE.
This email may come to you as a surprise but the debilitating situation
I
found myself compelled me to contact you in this manner. I am sincerely
sorry to intrude
into your privacy. I am of the opinion that you are in a better
position to
help me out of this awful predicament.
I am Mrs. HANNAH RASHEED the wife of late LT. - Gen. Dennis AHMED MOMOH
RASHEED former ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER (West African
Peacekeeping Force in Sierra Leone) who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance "War".
My three daughters and I are trapped in horrible custom traditional
norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of late
husband's
family, simply because I did not bear a male child {heir apparent} for
my
late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband had, (wealth)
belongs
to his
brothers/family. And I am to be remarried by his immediate younger
brother
which I vehemently refused.
They have taken all that I suffered with my husband to acquire
including
treasures, houses and his bank particular seized by them. I wanted to
escape to the
United State of America or Europe with my Children on exile, but again
they conspired and stole my international passport and other traveling
document to
further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received key text code (KTC) from a
Security &
Finance Company that my late husband deposited USD $ 8.7m {Eight
million
Seven hundred thousand Dollars} cash with this Company.
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone
or
whom-ever from abroad, A foreigner like you to help me receive or
secure
these
funds overseas in a
reliable bank account/ (Presumably an empty Bank Account, if available)
and
to help invest it on
our behalf as well, while we find a way of getting out to meet with you
in
your Country.
These funds are kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY MANDATE" with the Security
Company to avoid detection, Seizure or Diversion. I have had several
telephone discussions with the Assistance Director of the Security
Company,
who has express his honest concern and willingness to assist me on
meeting
any company's demand, as soon as I submit a reliable bank account for
the
wire transfer. This is why I have contacted you to help save us and you
to
accept
to receiving these funds on our behalf.
But, you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help
me,
you will not divert the funds. My Children and I have resolved to give
you a
wonderful
percentage that might be considerate of the total sum. This is all my
Children and I have got to live on.
Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me. I look forward to your urgent response, including your
fax
nr. For easier
communication.
NB: The Secret codes (E.g. Pin number. Secret Access Code) for this
fund is
safely kept with me whom I can give you as soon as you express desire
to
help me.
Stay blessed and God grant you all your heart wishes, Amen! Mrs.
Hannah
Rasheed.
Please, reply to me as soon as possible to this email address:
*****@myway.com or *****
1950@hotmail.com 
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