I get emails like these all the time.

[This is an email that I received and how I responded]

On 10/18/07, Mrs. Diana Brown wrote:

Dear in Christ,
I am Mrs. Diana Brown, am 54 years old. My husband and my only son were killed during the terrorist Attack that rocked London on the 7th of July 2005. I have some funds that my late husband WILLED to my name, the sum of US$9,500, 000.00 United States of American Dollars. Since I am not okay health wise, I don't want my family members to fight for this money should i answer the call of heaven; i then decide to give the funds out for the propagation of the Lord's work; i deposited the funds with a Finance Company here in London . I needed a very honest and God fearing Christian that will use the money for spreading evangelism, i searched through the internet for this purpose, and i found your email address and decided to contact you. Please if you would be faithful enough to use the funds for the Lord's work as i wish, kindly respond back to my message.
You're Sister,
Mrs. Diana Brown.

From: Curtis
Date: Oct 18, 2007 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: Dear in Christ
To: dianabrown97@hotmail.com

Dear Diana Brown,

First of all, I am really sorry for your loss. But I believe as any other Christian does you will see them again someday. I really appreciate that somehow you found my email address and believe that I am that God fearing Christian. The Lord's Work shall continue and doesn't necessarily need physical money. With that said, I would suggest dividing up my half and donating it to charities, I can think of a few that would need it. Just one question, who comes up with this stuff? I mean this is a pretty good story. Is this just to acquire people's email addresses and sell them to companies? Or is it deeper than that, are you actually going to try to get me to deposit a fake money order for 9 and a half million in my bank account and then give you half of it back. You didn't specify anything like that in the email and since I'm sure that I'll never hear back from THIS email that I'm sending to you then I'm guessing that the first assumption is correct. I are you able to send these messages out in bulk or does it take up a lot of your time to send these emails out one at a time? Also, what's the response rate on an email like this. I was actually thinking about getting into the scamming business myself. I think that I could write some pretty convincing copy. Okay, not really. But whatever email list your going to put me on and sell it then I welcome it. I love to see the number of unread messages in my spam folder increase drastically each time that I login to my email account. That is something that I think is just the most exciting thing in the world. (hint of sarcasm).

Sincerely,
Curtis.

[Other quick thoughts: I love it when someone is offering me millions of United States of American Dollars. It really makes me feel special, so I can't help but respond to the vague email offering a very slight chance to make a fortune. Oh yeah, I promised to use it to feed the poor and similar stuff. I think that she (or he posing as an old widow) should their imaginary money to various charities. I really don't have a preference so donate a little bit to all charities. She (he) claimed that her health was declining, maybe it's breast cancer, if so, she should donate to a breast cancer charity. That'll get her some attention.

But I'm convinced that it's just some amateur con artist working his (her) thing. Kids, if you get an type of email from someone far away that claims to have a bunch of money, then just delete it. Because if it sounds to good to be true then it really is too good to be true.]