I did not people still did this!

Barrister Marah Osman
Abidjan Cote D Ivoire
West Africa

My Dear,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it's just my urgent
need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.

I, am Barrister Marah Osman a personal lawyer to one later Mr.Ruth Fred Leo
An American oil Contractor with the Ivoirien Solid Minerals Corporation,
here in Abidjan Ivory Coast who died in an auto Crash in september 2006.
later Mr. Ruth Fred leo before his untimely death, made some deposit
of funds with a finance firm here and did not declare any information of
any of his relatives to the said fund deposit at the time of deposit.

Where you come in is that I needed your good collaboration to pull out
these funds to overseas for investments because, he left with me the
deposit information and no body could come around to lay claim if not I
and a foriegner in good collaboration since he did not leave any
information of any of his relatives.

Kindly get back to me in order to bring you to the detail arrangement to
move out the funds accross to your destination.

Kind Regards,

Barrister Marah Osman

A quick Google search reveals the only internet listing these people and companies have is under a directory of 419 scams, very funny. 

We could use these emails as a sorting mechanism for a kind of Darwinian reality TV show. People stupid enough to fall for them battle it out for the right to rejoin the human race.