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This jackass is trying to scam me. Its funny.

Check out what he wrote:

“My name is ALEN AQUA.My father ZITO AQUA,,.He died and i inherited some of his wealth .The amount is 13million US Dollars,Which he deposited with (STAR SECURITY COMPANY) in ADBIJAN, ACCRA GHANA. Take note neither the security company knows the content of the Box,what i told them is that the box contains Gold and Precious family documents which they believed and This 13m was gotten from the selling of Gold and Diamond that my Father trades on,he was a Gold Merchant in South Africa secretly because of his political ambition to become COTE DE IVOI, President but he died during the struggle.

We the ZITO AQUA Family Members are not free to invest in ABIDJAN for reason best known to us because it is not save for us.So we like to invest in Germany or any good and peaceful European Country but it should be outside Africa, and make you a joint venture partner with 30% of the 35m.USD as yours, sir take note, the security company in ACCRA GHANA are reddy to help us to deliver this funds to you at your door step,or any country you want it to be deliver. sir the beneficiary that surpose to claim it for us, He died in motor acident in italy. a week before the consigment was to arived in london presently the company in adbijan are still waiting for us to deliver the consignment to us. please sir we want you to pick this consignment up for us, also to be our powerbroker that can give us a gaudline on how to invest this capital for us. in ovarsea.

Please this information must be kept a top secret because it is our lives and such a huge amount of money is not what should be exposed to anyone and please reply me immediately for confirmation of receipt of this message.

My Email is:alenaqua03@yahoo.com and my direct phone number is 00233-24-614109,Please include your Phone,and Email personal private contact for secured transaction and easy communication between me and you.

Thanks very much.

Yours Sincerely,

ALEN AQUA[For the ZITO AQUA Family].”

My response:

“TOP SECRET. OOH. SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! FREE MONEY!! GO SPAM SOMEONE ELSE WITH YOUR SCAM YOU MORON

His response was amazing:

“Did you really no GOD. seach yourself very well. non of your course we reach wear i am.
My God that make me to live a life today, said he will course those that course me, am the children of ISREAL. The repply of your mail is, No arow of the enemy will touch me, in Jesus name.”

My last response:

“You rule man. Your translations are so shitty its amazing. Keep sending me your spam because its funny. Where do you live? How is your scam working out for you? Have you ripped many people off? Good luck with scamming bro.”

He hasn’t written me back since. I was hoping he would. I enjoyed receiving his response…

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