Sometimes the scams that show up in my inbox just make me laugh. This is one of them:

From: Harith Ahmad Date: 1/2/2008 10:45:55 PM To: (someone else’s email address) Subject: For A Real Investment

Dear Friend

Please make a hotel reservation for me and tell me the nearest airport to you and await for my arrival.This is a transaction of $11m (eleven million USD) from a genuine source and duly certified.It is my inheritance with full legal right.

I trust that with you I will be able to invest on the right business to maximize profit and grow my money.I am not resident in your country,pls be my partner,receive me well and 20% of the total fund is for you.Trust me.

Regards

Harith Ahmad
479 Valley Road,
Valley Park # 12-04
Singapore.

Note the email - the only address showing was not mine. Such a personal message! And the “trust me” is really the icing on the cake.