Beware of This Scam from an AC Producer

In recent years, I have received numerous emails from some person claiming to be the son of the late president of some foreign country, the lawyer of some deceased person trying to locate relatives of this person, and other imaginary people.

Without exception, they want a lot of my private information in order to send me a large amount of money, which, of course, I will split with them. I always wonder why they think I'm stupid enough not to question why I, of all the people in the world, was chosen for this touching expression of honor and trust.

It seems strange to me that they want me to deceitfully pose as somebody's next of kin, yet they assure me that it will be a 100% legitimate, risk-free arrangement and that I will stand in no danger of getting in trouble in the process. That's probably true, unless you consider losing your shirt to some crook, getting in trouble. I'm sure most of us have received such emails and few fall for them.

But I never expected to receive one through my CP page. I just received the following message, which I have cut and pasted below in its entirety. The usual "click to view CP page" didn't copy, so I have added a link to get you to this man's CP page.

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From: willco (click to view CP page) http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/108702/willco.html
Sent: Sep 04 2007 12:49PM
Subject: Message from willco
Message from willco
(STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL)

Dear Friend,
My name is Williams Cole from Great Britain. I am the Personal Account officer to my late client, Mr. Davis Stanley Who used to work with a manufacturing company here in Europe before his sudden death. On the 21st of April 2003, my client, his wife and their only son was involved in a fatal motor accident along Oaklands Roads, Hanwell-London. And unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident, since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives and this has also Proved unsuccessful.