Burkina Faso

I was going through my SPAM mails. There are times I would open the mail because I might be missing some which aren't supposed to be in the spam folder. I'm used to receiving emails which are obviously scam mails but this particular one had me reading it through the entire 407 words. 

Here's the script:

Dear friend,

With all due respect, I am Mr Mahrous Haider., director of the audit section of African Development Bank, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in West Africa. I am contacting you based on the fact that your profile was good and commendable. This message might meet you in utmost surprise, please forgive my intrusion into your privacy, however, it was due to the urgency implied and the need for a foreign partner that made me contact you today for a business transaction.

When auditing abandoned and outstanding accounts of the bank, I discover the secret file of one of our late customers, who was involved in a plane crash while on a trip along with his entire family on 31 July 2007 and they all lost there lives. He lodged some money into this bank either for personal use or for business of which we could not disclose, the said amount was US$3.5M (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand USA Dollars). Since then we have made several inquiries to locate any of our customer's extended relatives, but our several attempts was unsuccessful as he neither left a Will nor any next of kin to this fund.


After these several frantic searches proved unsuccessful, I personally decided to contact you and to seek your consent to assist me and apply to the bank as the next of kin to the fund, so that the proceeds of his account can be paid to you for our benefit. As a foreigner, you stand a better position to apply through documentation as the next of kin to the fund since the deceased is also a foreigner. I can not do this deal alone as a citizen of Burkina Faso. 

I have the opportunity of transferring this left over as I am the director of the Audit section of the bank, all I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through and if only you will give me a full assurance that you can handle this business, then forward to me immediately the bellow information.

If you agree to my business proposal and on receipt of your prompt and positive response, further details and modalities for the transfer will be forwarded to you.You can write me on my personal e-mail address  (

Your name..................
Your age...................
Your occupation............
Your country...............
Your  passport.............
Your telephone number......
Your sex...................
marital status.............
Your home address..........

with best regards,
Mr Mahrous Haider. 

I wonder if there's someone actually being lured by this? What kind of law would allow to transfer any asset, in this case an enormous sum of money, by just being considered the next possible 'kin' and by providing some information only and without any documents for proof? How can an email be truthful with this kind of sender address, goodnewssssssss58@msn.com? And where in the world did he get the profile he was talking about that I am commendable? If this thing is too good to be true, then it sure is!

I am glad Google have tracked this kind of email and provided a warning and precaution:

So, guys be careful!

This email has given me more than a good laugh. It has introduced me to Burkina Faso, Africa which I didn't know exists until now.

Burkina Faso is a land-locked area located at the Western part of Africa. It is a little smaller than the Philippines with 274,200 sq km. Having just 15.75M population with more than half are Muslim and the other percentage is composed of Christian denomination, traditional indigenous beliefs and others.

    Muslim Mosque:

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Traditional Dinian house. Isn't this cool!

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