Certainly you have received an email (probably many) requesting you to send in some front money ($5000 or so) in order to help some person/family or governmental agency in some foreign country move a substantial amount of money quietly and in return you will be paid for your services a percentage of the money to be moved...often one or two million dollars. If you have not received such an offer then you are neither rich nor a sucker. This scam is officially called the Nigerian Scam; so called because it originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. There are numerous variations, but the basic plot is a request for advance money for the promise of a later substantial return. Statistics indicate that people are falling for this (and other) ignorance as this 2007 accounting shows (This is a pdf file). Get the PDF Reader. And while you are thinking negatively about those foreigners who commit fraud, do not forget us Americans commit fraud. Some research indicates that nearly three in ten Americans would commit fraud if they thought they could get away with it. 30% of us. That is sad!
If you dying to waste some of your hard earned cash....I will give you my bank account!!!