The latest email scam is . . . elaborate. Someone's been reading too many int'l crime novels.

[zuul]

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
1200 Toffie Terrace, Atlanta, GA 30354, USA

Dear Beneficiary, I am McKee M. Howard, Head Officer-in-Charge, and Administrative Service Inspection Unit, International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Atlanta, Georgia. During our investigation, I discovered an abandoned package shipped through a diplomat from Africa which was transferred from JF Kennedy Airport to our facility here in Atlanta and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal Trunk Box weighing approximately 65kg.

Maybe you're not even aware of the trunk box because the diplomat assigned to deliver the package to your residence made an attempt to divert your package in collaboration with a Chinese businessman, just to satisfy their personal greed. At that moment, they were apprehended and handed them over to the police.

The diplomat's inability to provide the legal paperworks during the clearance process was the reason it was confiscated and abandoned in the vault then. By my assessment, the package contains $8 Million USD. It is still left in the airport storage facility till today. The package like I said is a metal trunk box weighing about 65kg approximately.

I, personally, discovered it belonged to you because the package contains your details which includes your name, address, email and phone number on the official Air Waybill manifest where the shipment was tagged as personal effects/classified document is still available with us. As it stands now, you have to reconfirm your full name, phone number, and full address so I can cross-check and see if it corresponds with the one on the official documents. It is now left to you to decide if you still need the packages or allow us to repatriate it back to Africa (place of origin) as we were instructed.

I'm willing and ready to assist you in any way I can just for you to get the package provided you will also compensate me handsomely (financial gratification). You can either come in person, or I can engage the services of a secure shipping/delivery Company/agent that will provide the necessary security that is required to deliver the package to your doorstep or the destination of your choice.

I wait to hear from you urgently for further directives and I will appreciate it if you can keep this matter confidential and I urge you to treat this matter as seriously as it demands.

Be guided accordingly,
Yours in service,
McKee M. Howard

[iamateacher]

1. I got that today also!

[Pobeka]

2. How is that not legit? They have Africa, China in the text and

And especially the signature line

"Be guided accordingly,
Yours in service,"

Isn't that how all official correspondence from government sources are signed in the USA?

[zuul]

4. And he asks to be compensated "handsomely (financial gratification)"

He must think TFG is still in office.

[grumpyduck]

3. So the scanner went through the metal box

and picked up on the paper money...

That's some scanner.

[Shrike47]

5. That was my thought, too. They can see money in there? Wow seriously.

[keithbvadu2]

7. I would open the box to ensure the entire 5 $million was in there.

[Patton French]

6. And to thnk some people fall for that crap..

[Otto_Harper]

8. Just a re-spin of the (now ancient) Nigerian Prince scam

I first saw that scam, before the Internet, in a letter addressed to a superior at work. In those days, it took a bit of head scratching. These days, just Biz bag it, and down the dumper.