I receive numerous of these spam e-mails in my account. Most of them are for a stupid guy in nigeria that wants to export his money. If you receive any kind of this e-mail is a fraud, and a dangerous one! They can steal money from your bank account if you provide them the information they ask

I used to get snail-mail con schemes from Nigeria before email was invented. Great stamps.

More recently, this one's been making the rounds. I picked it up from the aforementioned Tom Stewart:

To: clc@brainslug.org Subject: REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION

ATTN: President/CEO

I am the widow of the late President George W. Bush of the United States of America. I am writing you this letter in confidence regarding my current circumstances.

I escaped the United States ahead of death squads with my husband and two children Jenna and Frank, moving first to England and then, when my husband's political enemies took power there, to Austria. All of our wealth, obtained legitimately through baseball, oil drilling and insider trading, was seized by the new government of the USA under the despotic regime of (Dr.) Noam Chomsky, except for the contents of a few Swiss bank accounts. These bank accounts, which contain social security lock-box funds and the bulk of the 2001 budget surplus, could not be accessed by me or my children, due to agreements made between the socialist government of the USA and Swiss bank regulators. They seized our ranch in Crawford, Texas and now use it to teach homosexualist propaganda to schoolchildren.

You can find the rest down the blog somewhere (Google for it).