Latest installment in the prizewinning series!

Last week, I wrote my column about the 2005 Ig-Nobels and the fact that this year's Ig-Nobel Prize for Literature went to the writers of those e-mails asking if the displaced prince or doctor or oil baron or whatever could put a few gazillion dollars in your bank account.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=164444

Well, I got a new one of these yesterday -- and the prize has really inspired these guys. So, I thought I'd share for the unlucky few who haven't gotten one yet. Read carefully -- the typos are a scream ("living hand to mount," for example):



Dearest One,

MY Name is madam jennifer marshall from Gambia .I inherited a total sum of 12.3 million dollars from my late husband, this money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company in ABIDJAN.

This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a friend family treasure. This means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk box.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of
money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country with your percentage of which we shall chat on soon.

In fact, since the death of my husband i have been feeding from hand to mount, his brothers has been seriously chasing me around with constant
treats, trying to suppress me so that they might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them. They have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all bank account of my late husband
which I did,
but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security company in ABIDJAN because this is where my future and destiny lies upon.
The family secret existence of this deposit which we made with the security company and they can never be aware of it. Out of fear of my late husbands family, and when the situation becomes uncontrollable I decide,
to look for a trustworthy person who could assist me retrieve this box of money from the security company for onward lodgement into his/Her account for the purpose of future investment.
Consider my situation as a widow and come to my rescue.

I will send you the Authorization Certificate to call them in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they gave me on the very day when the box of money was deposited under their company.
I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you soon.

Address your responds to my Private email address for quick conclusion of this business.

All the best,
Madam jennifer marshall.

ALTANATIVE EMAIL/ jennifer88marshall@hotmail.com