FROM: Mr. MALCOLM THOMPON
TO: <recipient>
SUBJECT: AN URGENT MATTER
Dearest Mr./Ms.<recipient>, I represent the widow of a recently deceased Venusian prince. It has been assigned as my duty to seek out a trustworthy person to transfer C30.000.000.000 (thirty billion galactic credits) to an account on Rubi-Ka, but our attempts to contact our local clients have provided useless and we now lack a contact to perform the transfer to a secure account in Jobe Bank. In order to successfully perform the long-distance transfer, a C100.000 (one hundred million credits) deposit of assurance needs to be performed to our Jobe account BA23IT0098SC12AM. Once this is successful, as a reward for your kindness we will provide you with 1.000.000.000 (one billion) credits from the transferred sum.
For further details, please do not hesitate to contact me back. Buffy bless you, kind soul! The queen of Venus and her family will forever be grateful to you!
WITH REGARDS,
MALCOLM THOMPON
THOMPON&THOMPON AGENCY
288279 VENUS, SOL SYSTEM
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Mir hit the 'send' button and sat back smiling as the viral program quickly spreaded the message into millions of Mail terminals across Rubi-Ka.