I got this email today from a "14 year old boy" ... the poor child is so distraught with the death of his father; his mother taking drugs, sleeping around, and beating him; and the bank CEO telling him he can't give the kid his 10 million pounds unless he can cough up an honest gent to claim it in his stead that he can't even format his letter. It's a really heartbreaking story and I thought I'd share it with you.

I got a good laugh out of it.

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Hello I am Edward Hunt Martin I am 14 years old I live in Manchester(UK) before my father died, now I live with my mother in Ireland. my father is from Manche ster UK and my mother is from Ireland. My late father Mr. Hunt Martin has a big Real Estate company in Manchester before he died in a car accident last year July 25th 2005. he left £10 Million (Ten Million Pounds) in his account before he died. The £10Million is in (Union National Bank UK) I have been trying to collect the money from (Union National Bank UK) but t he MD CEO told me to go and look for some body that is honest and old enough to h elp me collect the £10 Million (Ten Million Pounds) I could have told my moth er to assist me in collecting the £10Million but my mother and father where div orced before my father died and my father told me not to have anything to do with my mother, I don?t even want her to know about this because what my father tol d me before he died was correct, now that I stay with my mother in Ireland sh e doesn?t take care of me all she dose is to take hard drugs and to bring men to the house and she always hit me. I don?t want to have anything to do with her, I just want some body that is old enough and honest to help me collect the £10Million from the bank as I am too young to take control of £10Million. Please I need your help, if you can assist me to collect the £10Million from the bank I will give you 30% and take 70%. I have all documents in my name you can confirm from the bank. I am in deed the Next of Kin to my late father Mr. Edward Hunt Martin. The MD CEO (Union National Bank UK) told me to look for some body that is h onest and old enough so that he can send the £10Million to the persons account as soon as possible.. If you can help me I will contact the MD CEO (Union National Bank UK) and t ell him that I have found an honest person who is willing to help me collect th e £10Million, so when you contact him he will know I sent you. I will give you is contact so you can contact him to enable him send the £10Million to your provided account immediately Please help me. I will be waiting for your urgent reply so I can give you the contact of the bank and send you the last statement of account of my late father and I will also se nd you my picture and my birth certificate. Please help me reply back on this email: (email edited out) so I can send you all informations you need. Best Regards Edward Hunt Martin

couple of points!
I live in Northern Ireland(UK), and i"ve never heard of "Union National Bank UK" or anything like it, so this kid had better do some checking on his homework!
I do however believe the bit about his Irish mother using drugs, drinking, beating him etc etc!!
If you want me to look into it further from this side of the pond, please send $100,000 US to cover expenses, and i"ll see what i can do!
good shooting

I think there used to be an Irish lawyer that posted here. I think his name was Gerry, maybe he could help