It's a first for me, but after many entreaties from widows of dead African despots, our dear friends from Lagos have gone Chinese with a yarn about a Narcotics cop who needs to liquidise his accumulated kick backs:

Dear Friend,

My name is Mou Xinsheng (Former Minister of General Administration of 
Customs of the Peoples Republic of China) Forgive me if you see my business 
proposal as shameful and not honourable because of my governmental status.

But please excuse me and understand that this is the situation I am and
must find a credible partner to help me handle this transaction,because
in my years of government service as Narcotics Control Commission and
General Adminstration of Customs, I have received kick backs from
smugglers and business people seeking favours from me and as a public
officer my bank accounts are monitored hence I diverted the funds
($30million)Thirty million united states dollars for safe keeping
abroad. I want you to receive the money which has been in deposit since
the last Two years. When the money is in your bank account,I want to use
60% of the money for charity to help orphanage Children suffering (You
will spare head this project and my name will not be mentioned).You will
receive 20% as your commission and I will take the remaining 20% as my
share which I intend to settle with in your country.Please consider this
proposal and reply to me soon.It will certainly do you no good to report
me to my government authorities or devuldge this information to anybody
because doing so will only destroy my person and my career.

Please also note that You would be advice to activate the account
thereafter make transfers to your destination account in your
country.The funds will be moved Straight into your account and the
transfer will not attract the Monetary bodies,You can then transfer the
funds in safe bits to your main account for both of us.

Once I have had this response from you, I will feel a lot safer to
divulge vital aspects of this business to you and i also need some
informations about you which would enable us commence this business
immediately. I need your full names ,addresses,occupation,any scan copy
of any form of your idenitification,i also want to know if you are
married, have children etc.,,,,,

Let me use this opportunity to assure you that this business is safe,
being a success in all its ramifications. This is and always will be my
utmost guarantee to you. Once I get a response from you, I will then go
ahead and furnish you with all the basic information which will enable
you understand this business totally then we can proceed to commence
ASAP!!! Please for security reasons reply me via this email:
xinsheng_455@yahoo.com.hk

Yours truly, Mou Xinsheng.

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