Would You Respond?

I recently found an intersting email in my junk folder.

Dear Confidant,Permit me to share this opportunity with you, I am Mr.churchill landry ,a staff of a Bank here in Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire,I am writing you following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us. I am the personal accounts manager to the former Guinea-Bissau army chief(General Verissimo Correia Seabre, of blessed memeory.)IRefer you to this website for its detail please click(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3720218.stm)Now the bank has been waiting for his foreign business partner as he directedduring the time of deposit to come-up for the claim but since then no one hascome up for the claim.I personally know that no-one will come,because being his personal accountsmanager,he confided in that he used the trick to disguise him self beingsuspected of looting Government treasury.It may interest you to note that I know everything about this deposit and also know how to go about getting all the necassry approval for the funds transfer into any foreign account you may want, I seek your consent to present you as the foreign business partner to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. This will be disbursed or shared between you and I,I have every vital information related to this account back up any claim you may make. All I require is your honest Co-operation,Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will beexecuted under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breachof the law here, you can reply me through this email contact:Your swift response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.Best regardschurchill landry

This a extremely intersting email for a few reasons, the first thing i asked my self was could this be a "set up" from a government body, looking for "scammers"over the internet. I mean, if i responded would the fbi or cia knock on my door and arrest me for fraud {highly likely}

but..........if it was a legitimate "scammer" looking to launder money would i really be rewarded for my efforts?

Chances are it's too good to be true and i'm well aware for this scam to work the sender of the email would need my bank account details to transfer the money, so of course the email is now sitting in my junk folder where it belongs. You have to wonder how many people received the email, read it and thought "Hey this could work!" and i dare say some people would respond to it, just to tread the waters. the question is "Would you respond?"