This poor kind sick woman!

This is one of the gems I got in my email today.
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Beloved Your Interest Would Interest Me Most.

I am Mrs. Monica Eunice David., a British woman, suffering from cancerous ailment. I am married to Mr. Vincent David, my husband worked with Chevron Corporation for twenty years before he died at the age of 54 in 5th of January 2008 after a brief illness. Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home due to our tradition.

My husband and I prepared a blueprint for establishing a Foundation that would be directed towards helping the needy in our society. This plan was still in the incubation stage rearing for activation before the sickness that claimed my husband and now left me in this debilitating state. My late husband deposited the sum of 12 Million (TWELVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) with a Finance House. Presently this money is still there I am writing from my sick bed. I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. Although we have not met before, I got your email address on the Internet, and my confidence reposed on you. I hope you read this message carefully and reply me immediately.

Recently, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and cancerous problems I am suffering from. I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husband's effort to fund the upkeep of widows and charities worldwide. In other words, you shall utilize 80% of this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world but in our names: MONICA - VINCENT DAVID FOUNDATION.

You will have to assure me that you will act according to my instructions as I have explained here and to keep this matter confidential till when this fund get to your custody. I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time the fund will be transferred into your account, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as I have stated above. Your interest to executing this assignment for the sake of the needy globally would interest me most as I am convinced that I have only few months to stay here on earth.

If this condition is acceptable by you, please contact me immediately with your :(1) Full Names, Residential Address,Phone number,Age and country and also your picture. I shall give you the contact of the finance house.
I do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused. I want you to always pray for me. Note that this transaction is 100% Legal and Real. Thanks and God bless
Yours sincerely In the Lord,
Mrs. Monica Eunice David.
(email address removed)@gmail.com

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This poor, poor woman lying on her death bed wants me to help her. How can I say no?? I mean all she is asking of me is to take 80% of her $12 million dollars and help her send it to the charities of her choice in her and her late husbands name. She is graciously going to let me have the other 20% of the money for myself for doing this for her. How can I pass this opportunity up?? She may even be dead shortly after the funds are transferred so I could keep all of it for myself!! Seems like I'd be set for life right?

Ok, lets take a look here and think about the many things wrong with this email. For starters, If this WAS legit, why couldn't she have hired herself a lawyer to make all of this possible for her when I could easily take her 12 million and run? Secondly, they claim to have gotten my hotmail address randomly from the internet. Would you trust $12 million of your money to someone you didnt know, I think not. (If it seems too good to be true, it probably is)

Now what would happen if i replied? I would send her all of the information requested, now she did not ask for banking info or my social security number so it seems harmless enough right? The instant I replied and sent this person any information about this I would more than likely get a second email stating she would like a show of good faith. She will send me a money order in the amount of $1000 dollars, $800 of which i would be instructed to send to a charity and $200 of which i could keep for myself and then trust would be formed between myself and this woman. I would get the money order, I would take it to my bank, they would accept it. I would take my $200 dollars and buy myself something nice. 2 weeks later I would be contacted by my bank letting me know that the money order was a fake. (Yes, sometimes the money will post to your account but the money order will not clear for 2 weeks and show as a fake) So what happens now? I have spent $1000 dollars of a fake money order that I am now responsible for and I WILL have to pay back. Chances are good the charity I sent the $800 to was in this woman's name and she is off clear and free with $800 dollars. The money order cant be traced to her, nor can the gmail email account... I would have just been scammed out of $1000 dollars.