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OMG. I got a really strange email from the "FBI." Should I be worried?

I received this yesterday...

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Kojo Mills the general auditor of a bank in accra. There is this floating funds which is to the tune of Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000.00 Dollars) Which has been floating in this A/C nº 5005874BS1000 since 2000 after the death of the true owner of the funds Late Mr.Peter Williams, an American who was a private business man unfortunately lost his life in November 2001 in an auto crash, including his wife and only daughter.

I just came across his file again when I was auditing all the credit account, and I find out that nobody has ever come on behalf of the Late Mr.Peter Williams as his next of kin to claim the funds. And I have been monitoring this account since I discovered this information.

In this case I have concluded to contact you if you are reliable to execute this transaction with me, then I will instruct you on how to claim as the next of kin to the late Mr.Peter Williams, so that the funds could be transferred to your overseas A/C, if only you can co-operate with me.

After the transaction is being successful I will come to your country to collect my own share which is 55% for me and 45% for you, feel free to give your own opinion on this transaction modality if you wish.Send to me the following information

1}FULL NAME
2}YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
3}AGE AND OCCUPATION
4}DIRECT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
5)COPY OF IDENTIFICATION

Upon the receipt of this,i will in turn get back to you and give you the modalities for the bank to approve you as the next of kin. Note also,this transaction must be kept classified because of its nature.I look forward to receiving your prompt response.
I await your soonest response.
Thanks.
Mr.Kojo Mills
General Auditor, Accra Ghna
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This is just... lol!!
 
DoFoT9 said:
lol hilarious, i would be emailing them back with fake ID's, running them around in circles.
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Yeah... that'd be nice.

Does someone know if one can deduce the real account id from a dotmac alias mailing id?
 
Haha. I hate emails like these.

It's also just like all those crappy chain mail things you get that say something like "If you don't pass this message on to 15 of your friends in the next 2 minutes you will die at 4am tomorrow morning"

lol
 
mogzieee said:
Haha. I hate emails like these.

It's also just like all those crappy chain mail things you get that say something like "If you don't pass this message on to 15 of your friends in the next 2 minutes you will die at 4am tomorrow morning"

lol
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lol yeah people used to do it on myspace it was annoying
 
I hate chain letters. I NEVER forward any of these so as to prevent spams in my e-mails. It's so hard to keep it clean when your friends keeps plastering your e-mail account on the web for everybody to see.

On topic, what worries me is when a person, even for a moment, thinks this is legit.
 
mogzieee said:
Haha. I hate emails like these.

It's also just like all those crappy chain mail things you get that say something like "If you don't pass this message on to 15 of your friends in the next 2 minutes you will die at 4am tomorrow morning"

lol
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I hate the '7 years of bad luck' types more...
 
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