My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

Do people really fall for these scams. I know I'm always getting phone calls saying I've won trips and or cruises, I just hang up. Once I told them just take what I owe out of my winnings and send me the rest. They hung up on me. How could I win if I didn't enter a contest?

Well beware of an even bigger hoax that is doing the rounds. People are being promised a golden future if only they will sign a declaration saying that the current economic crisis was caused by a tiny number of bad people rather than the result of an ongoing systemic contempt for the millions of people who do real work and produce real wealth which is then diverted into the hands of fabulously wealthy gamblers in an exclusive casino.

We clipped the same thing - different titles!

This is political satire - not a real email scam.

I guess you could only fall for this if you were stupid enough to open an email from a stranger.

I get 5 regular emails a day - Everything else is marked as spam. Spam is email I did not ask for.

Friends that email me know to put a familiar in the topic.

Everything You don't ask for is spam.

If you never open it - you won't get more.

I get 3-4 spams from clipmarks with every comment or status email.

I get 1-2 spams with every forum notification.

I expect them - I don't open them tho.