Quote:or could it be a scam?
A scam? My goodness,do you think?
Do you know what you are?
You're a cynic,that's what you are.
Might be worth your while to have a glance at the links below
Quote:The Spanish Prisoner is a confidence trick dating back to the early 1900s[1]. In its original form, the confidence man (con-man) tells his victim (the mark) that he is in correspondence with a wealthy person of high estate who has been imprisoned in Spain under a false identity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner
Quote:An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer[2]),[3] the Spanish Prisoner, the black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). The so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised-crime traditions; they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_419_scammer
