A golden opportunity?

[Pitlamp]

I've just received an exciting "opportunity" which would quickly make me rich, so I can lead a life of caving on expeditions in beautiful parts of the world. It's from the daughter of the late Colonel Gaddafi, no less. And it's in bestest English, so it must be genuine. Should I proceed?

(Nice try.) ;-)

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Inquiry for investment

I am pleased to use this medium to open a mutual communication with you and to ask for your permission and acceptance to partner with you to invest in your country.

I am Aisha Gaddafi, a single Mother and widowed with three Children. I am the only biological Daughter of the late Libyan President (Late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi). I have an investment fund worth Twenty-Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (27,500,000.00 ) and a ton of Gold worth ($64.3 million) which I want to entrust to you for investment project assistance in your country, Maybe from there, we can build a business relationship in the near future. I will negotiate an investment/business profit-sharing ratio with you based on future investment-earning profits.

If you are willing to handle this project on my behalf, I would appreciate your urgent response to provide you with more details to proceed further.

Best Regards
Mrs. Aisha Gaddafi

 

[mikem]

She's a lieutenant colonel in the Libyan army, so must be trust-worthy:

Ayesha Gaddafi - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Pitlamp]

But she appears not to be able to spell her own name correctly in her delightful email . . .

 

[Speleofish]

Much better to stick to those tried and tested Nigerian princes

 

[Pitlamp]

Yes but their spelling is usually worse . . . .

 

[Fulk]

Come on John, don't be a wimp – what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Mark]

Gold is only going to go up in value, are you certain it's not legit

 

[Mark]

You could do worse

 

[Goydenman]

Oh John let's go halves sounds so so easy

 

[Dickie]

I once had a great "opportunity" to help a group of "white Zimbabwean farmers" get their money out of the country before it could be acquired by Robert Mugabe. Points for creativity but not much else - the details were beyond stupid!

 

[mikem]

They do that on purpose, so sensible people don't waste their time