You Mean There Really is a Bart!

I just found this website: Scamblog

Scamblog is dedicated to those e-mails you get detailing the plights of those people who send you e-mails with heart wrenching stories about how their entire family was killed in a car accident, now they have a few months to move $XX million out of the country before the government takes it.

Turns out that there actually are real people sending out those e-mails. It's a scam, but these aren't the bot spam we're used ot from our native soil: chainletters built to spread viruses. These are real, well orchestrated scams. If you write back showing interest, you will get a response. Or at least stand a good chance of getting a response.