then the person will state, oh there's a fee required, can you pay it? then another so called final fee, and so on, w/the person thinking millions are coming. or in some cases people just give up their banking account info, the person then drains it or uses the information for an immigration hustle into the country. you see a person has to have X-amount of money to enter the U.S. so w/record of a bank account and access to the funds, they're home safe.
I just can't believe people have actually fallen for this and have been murdered, raped, extorted from and a lot of other nightmares. even recently a hollywood director was last heard from after making contact w/people like this. he left a frantic message about being in trouble and that was it.
when I first got an email 5 years ago I was thinking, ok now what idiot would send a confidential cry for help to a complete stranger which could be a police officer.
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
U are wrong. 
I wish I could c the look on the con artist face looking @ your reply. I hope these replies go flying around so people make the cons give up.
well, hopefully we can get the list of the passengers from this so we'll know ahead of time which names will be used for the next round of 419 advance fee scam emails!! supposedly some high level officials were on the plane.
I never get these emails but I hear a lot about them.