Got this email today, good news, eh?

Firstly, I apologize for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a Certified mail/Post-mail. This is due to the urgency and importance of the information.
My name is Abdulqader Zafik aide to the Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi. My job is to take care and supply Gaddafi’s house hold with food and other vital issues at the palace.

However, when this crisis started, we adviced our leader to try and avert it, but as you know who Gaddafi is, he can not listen to anyone but his heart and if you try and persist you will be killed.
Furthermore, why I am writting you this letter is to ask for your help and honesty and also what I am about to disclose to you should be handled with utmost confidentiality. This is because, this can cost me my life. To cut the story short, I was carrying out my daily duty in the house of Gaddafi when i discovered a box in the inner chambers of Gaddafi, due to early days of the crisis, Gaddafi could not put his eyes on all his monies. I opened the box and discovered a large sum of money amounting to $8.500.000.000 (eight million and five hundred thousand dollars). Initially, I thought of informing his son Mohammed Gaddafi about the money, but a second thought told me that, the money will be spent in killing my own people. I have been in great sorrow and sadness since the crisis started, but what can we do nothing, if you try anything you will be killed.

As at this moment, the money in question has been posted through a security network Libya to overseas for safety in my favour. I have ben given the code and access numbers which I shall use when the war is over. But with the look of things and what our president has done to us, I do not think we are safe and also, with a large sum of money of this nature in a company abroad, i think delay is dangerous, because, as I speak to you, all my traveling documents and that of my wife and my three children has been seized by Gaddafi, even for us to communicate through the phone is not possible, I had to use this medium to contact you through a good friend who is a journalist and he was the one who gave me your e-mail address that I should contact you maybe you can help.

Do note that for your assistance, I am ready to share the funds with you 50/50.
Please if you can help get back to me as soon as possible in order for me to inform you of the modalities to collect the funds from the security company as the legal beneficiary of the funds. And please deal with this matter with total confidentiality and urgency.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Regard.
Abdulqader Zafik