Burkina Faso's Banking Scam Gap...

I'm sure everyone's aware of the ol' Nigerian Scam emails. I've gotten a few and I keep a couple around in my archives because, well, they amuse me. There's nothing like learning out of the blue that I have a long lost relative in the Belgian Congo who had $18m oil revenues stashed away in some random bank. There really are no highs or lows quite like the ones you get from those emails. The highs of learning that you have a long-lost relative somewhere. The lows of realizing you'll never get to meet him or her because they recently died. The highs of discovering that you might just be able to get 40% of their cash, plus 10% held back in a discretionary fund to pay off any handling charges and you get to hand over nine million dollars to some random official you've never heard of before (because, as we all know, international law states that you're entitled to all of the money your distant relative in Africa you've never heard of had regardless of said relative's wishes, provided you go halfsies with his lawyer/banker/hairdresser and agree to pay all of the associated charges. Who actually believes these things?). Anyway, I got this email today: FROM THE DESK OF MR MOMODU ALI MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE.AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK.(A.D.B) OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA. Dear Sir/madam, I know that this message will come to you as a surprise. I am the bill and exchange manager of Africa Development Bank (ADB), Ouagadougou Burkina faso. I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($18.5)million to your account within 10 or 14 banking days. This money has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim.I want the bank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer(the owner of the account)died along with his supposed next of kin in an air crash since July 2000.For more information about the crash you can visit this site:(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm) I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasurer as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why i contacted you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested.Upon receipt of your reply i will give you full details on how the business will be executed and also, note that you will have 25% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business with me.Waiting to hear from you. Thanks Yours truly, MOMODU ALI(A.D.B) Now, I don't know about anybody else, but part of the fun of scamming or being scammed in my book is the ridiculous back story. I want to hear about my oil baron uncle who died of typhoid or a sob story about being exiled after a failed revolution. I also want to be addressed in some comically informal way ("My Dear" is my favorite), not referred to as "Sir/madam." Oh, and I'm pretty sure it's not a good idea to link to a BBC article about an air disaster from seven years ago involving a Concorde wherin 96 Germans, 2 Danes, an American, an Australian and nine French crewmembers died while traveling from what I'm assuming was Paris to New York since there is literally no good reason I can come up with why any European or American would entrust $18.5m to a bank in Burkina Faso. This is why the Nigerians are the New York Yankees of the African email scam game. They really work for it and want to be scammers. Burkina Faso has a lot to learn...