No Way to Spam!

This is a clear email spam message from somebody who uses the name of Bank of Edinburgh - Scotland to spam people. He or wrote the following under - Letter of Intent:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr.Michael J.Leyden, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of a Bank in Edinburgh Scotland. With due respect and regard, I have urgent and very confidential business proposal for you. We are being Mandated to investigate all unclaimed payments in the bank and during our investigation and auditing in this Bank and by Virtue of my position as the Director I discovered a unclaimed sum of money to the tune of 15.500.000.00 (Fifteen Point Five Million Pounds sterling which belong to MR. MORRIS THOMPSON a deceased passenger who died on January 31st 2000 with Alaska Airlines Flight 261.

You can as well confirm it by yourself through under stated Website of the incident http: //www. cnn. com/2000/US/02/01/alaska. airlines.list
Since his untimely death the funds has been dormant in his account. On further investigation we found out that before his death, he died without making a (will) and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless and neither did he declare any next of kin in the official document in the Bankincluding his Bank deposit paper in the Bank. No one has ever come forward to claim the fund.

According to our ethnic Law of nation,at the expiration of 5 (five!) years, the Funds will revert to the ownership of the Scotland government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

Consequently, my proposal is that I would like you to Stand in as the next of kin to MR. MORRIS THOMPSON so that the fruits of this old man labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government/banks officials.

This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full name and address so that an Attorney will prepare the necessary documents/paperwork and affidavits which will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the service of an accredited Attorney for the drafting andnotarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents in your favor for the transfer.

A bank account in any part of the world which you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this Funds to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The Funds will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you.

There is no risk at all as the paper work for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as an insider of the bank i shall make sure I see the successful execution of this transaction.

If you Are interested, please reply immediately via email.Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you to understand the transaction.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your Country.

Best regards
Mr. Michael J.Leyden

Email spam info:
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Originating-IP: [213.185.106.3]
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Reply-To: leyden09 @ excite.com
From: "Samuel Randle" ran_sam015 @ hotmail.com
Subject: Mr.Michael J.Leyden
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:15:59 +0000