I'll edit out some of this but you'll get the gist:

Dear Friend.

Quite a start.

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday.

OK I won't.

My name is Musa Aloma, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer which was discovered very late, due to my laxity in carrying for my health. It has defiled all forms of medicine, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

I know some doctor friends who've defiled a lot of medicine too, but that wasn't legal.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone not even myself but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focus on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that God ! has called me, I have willed and given most of my properties and assets to my immediate and extended family members and as well as a few close friends.

I'll bet you're getting a lot more attention from your family and friends then. Now this is all fascinating, but what's it got to do with me?

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul and so, I have decided to give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this my self any more.

Not too sure how a Jew in Hong Kong's going to help you here. U.A.E., Algeria and Malaysia ain't where I'm sending your money, buddy, old pal.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them.

If you can't trust your family, then surely you can trust someone you sent an email to at random. Pakistan and Bulgaria. They ain't on my list either, my dying friend.

The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of twenty four million dollars that I have with a security company in Amsterdam. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations. email me at musaloma@hknmetmail.com for confidinsal reasons.

That is a huge cash deposit. If it's US currency. Ummm, but old mate, you deposited it with a security company? Not a bank? In that well known banking mecca of Amsterdam. You want me to schlepp from HK to Holland to pick up your money, when you're half as close. Trust me, this will remain "confidinsal" as soon as I work out what that means.

I have set aside 10% for you for your time and
patience.

Musa Aloma.

10%! You're kidding. I don't do dodgy scams for less than cheap Wiggles tickets.