Been scammed lately?

The following is yet another phishing/scam email I received today notifying me that I have won yet another overseas lottery. If I were to add up all of the 'lotteries' I have supposedly won, I could probably make a serious dent in America's defecit!

Obviously, I simply delete these emails but how many individuals actually get sucked into these nightmares? Apparently several based on the amount of emails I receive.

Beware of any person sending you an email phishing for your personal information. Anyone else have a good phishing/scam email to share?

ATTENTION: Friend,

I am BRIGADIER GENERAL NANA TENNYSON, the Chief of General Staff, GHANA. I am mailing you in respect, of the present development going on here in my country GHANA.

I decided to contact you, after much investigation which was carried out by the Bureau

of National Investigation (BNI) and the Ghana Police Service, to make sure our country

is free of these fraudulent activities, which is going on here in Africa and for our

country to bear a good name.

The Airport Authority detected that trunk boxes after been scanned the authorities

detected that the boxes contains funds on your name and email that has been tempered

on, were been smuggled into the country by foreign Personnel who were on transit from

London.

These men were trying to enter the country with the trunk boxes, when the airport

authority detected that these boxes contains, some huge amount of United State Dollars.

After much investigation we found out that these men were among those men, spoiling the good name of Africa.

They opened up to us that, they actually work with a Lotto company before their

dismissal and used the opportunity to perpetuate their crimes, they told us that the

funds inside the boxes was won by you, but now they planned to turn back on you and

decided to take the money all to themselves out of the country. We later found out on

the investigation that was carried that, these men are truly members of a well

established organization to act on their criminal activities.

As I write you this mail now, the three(3) men that were caught are now in the custody

of the Ghana Police Service over here in our country Ghana, while we are trying to

track the others left, because they have proved to us that they belong to one

organization.

That is why we have to reach you by your mail address and name that was tagged the

boxes, so we can make the arrangement on the transfer of the funds to your designated

bank account.

Your response will be very much appreciated as soon as you have received this email.

Thank you for your kind attention, for us to make sure our beloved country Ghana, bears

a good name.

Please in your reply include your

A: FULL NAMES

B: ADDRESS

C: DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER

D: SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR ANY RELEVANT IDENTIFICATION PASSPORT.

As this information will be required, by the authorities in Ghana to draft the new

change of ownership in your name as the rightful owner of the funds in our custody and

also to verify the information given to us because the documentations covering the

boxes have been tampered on.

Regards,

Brigadier General Nana Tennyson