Here is another variant of the advanced fee fraud. An alleged rich person wants to distribute a large amount of money via a charity, and looking for a trusted person.

Note the new twist of "only having a laptop as a means of communication" in order to allay fears about no phone number/physical address provided.

From: "Mrs.Kate Nuhanvaye" <katenuhanvaye505@hotmail.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
Subject: From; Mrs.Kate Nuhanvaye ( Charity Project )
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:30:10 +0200

My Dear,

Another scam claiming to be a promotion from Heineken, the beer company.

Note how they say that no tickets were sold in order to remove concerns over "how would I win a lottery if I did not buy any tickets?" 

From         HIENEKEN PROMOTION <lottery102@mchsi.com>
To         undisclosed-recipients <>     
Date        Aug 16, 2007 9:01 PM     
Subject        HEINEKEN     
HEINEKEN

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This is one is via XKCD.

Too bad this is no longer applicable to scripted/interpreted languages like PHP, Python and Ruby ...

Another classic scam claiming a corrupt Nigerian official has amassed a fortune and entrusted the scammer with a portion of it. 

This one includes links to real people and events to lend legitimacy to the claim. 

Yet another variant of the scam, winning a lottery, this time claimed to be from Australia. 

Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2007 01:16:14 +0200 (MEST)
From:  "australialoto08@terra.es" <australialoto08@terra.es>
Subject:   CONGRATULATIONS! ! ! YOUR E-MAIL WON AUSTRALIA JACK POT

                            Visions of Australia logo

This is yet another variant of the winning a lottery scam. 

From:  "henry don" <inter_24q@hotmail.com>  Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
Subject:   YOU HAVE WON $2,950,000.00
Date:   Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:10:14 +0200
   henry don inter_24q@hotmail.com

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