“And I am prepared to ship it to you, Praise God, but I need 20,000 dollars in earnest money as an expression of faith. Please wait no longer than June 6th to remit via bank wire transfer and the hardware manifest will be forwarded for customs approval. I await you kindly response to this message and pray we can resolve the matter quickly”
Eight years ago...I received an email that one of long most-distant relatives had finally passed away in Nigeria, and I could be part of the estate. They wanted me to believe that one member of my family in the 1880s had left Alabama and gone off to deepest, darkest Africa.
I just sat there in disbelief. It’s hard enough to convince any of my Alabama relatives to even travel up to Nashville or Atlanta for a weekend....but they’d get onboard some ship for three weeks and go to Africa? It just ain’t going to happen.