Below is one of many Nigerian scam emails that we have received in our inbox. This is provided for your entertainment as well as to give you an example of what these scams look like. If you have received one of these email messages (and odds are you have or will receive many of them) simply delete them from your inbox. They are scams, designed to con you from your hard-earned money.

FROM:MRS ROSE. L. MCKNIGHT
        Zimbabwe
     TEL:(censored)
EMAIL:(censored)

           REQUEST FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT.

DEAR Friend,

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial; as a  matter of
urgentcy, i am desparately looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to
handle some investment or fund movement. I am MRS.ROSE MCKNIGHTwife of late
MR.MENTU GEZI MCKNIGHT, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and
irrate black people.

I am writing from Zimbabwe. I got your address from the internet through the
consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to
transact this business with. I write to solicit for your special assistance
to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his
(ZANU-PF) ruling party- president Robert Mugabe.

Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some irrate partymembers to disposess the
land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of
some members of opposition party including my husband(MENTU MCKNIGHT), who
did do not support this ill-fated action.

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
deposited the sum ofUS$15.4m (Fifteen million four hundered Thousand United
States Dollars)in the name of our only son 'RAYMOND  in EUROPE with the help
of reputable security company in south Africa with the intention of using it
to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our
neighbouring country (Swaziland)after his university education.

On the 29th of July, 2001, the war veterans and some supporters of
(ZANU-PF)ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my husband) to
death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, RAYMOND MCKNIGHT,
but he managed to escape to a neighbouring country, South Africa as a
political asylum seeker (refugee).   But his position in South Africa does
not permit him to open an account or run any huge financial business.

That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so
that you will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence,if you agree to
assist us, we will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will
be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction,
while 70% will be for our family investment in your country through your
assistance.  I need your urgent and confidential response.

Best regards,
ROSE. L.GEZI MCKNIGHT(MRS.)
FOR THE FAMILY

Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all
the informations that will empower your good self in finalizing the
transaction with the security company in the europe and also disclosing the
country in europe.I will also send to you the agreement that will protect
both interest. And also further information about yourself is necessary for
i can not play on this.My alternate Email address is
EMAIL:(censored)

You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this
situation on the following
sites:http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,562148,00.html
Waiting for your prompt and positive response ..
CALL MY SON ON THIS NUMBER (censored) PLEASE REPLY ME VIA THIS
EMAIL:(censored)