"My esteemed colleague, it is with much reverence that I am humbly, yet secretly, contacting you to tell you of great fortune that has come my way. My most honorable relative has kindly left me, in his will, eighty gold bars. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, I have to regretfully sell on the gold to a trusted overseas beneficiary..." and so on. You've maybe received a variant of such an email, called "the Nigerian 419 advance fee email scam" -- 419 being a Nigerian Criminal Code related to fraud.
Source: http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/218ace9e/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C756660Bhtml/story01.htm
JACK HENRY and ASSOCIATES IXYS
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