Oh yeah, I've had my fair share of them and even had someone send me a counterfiet CHECK! I took it to the bank just for the hell of it and yeah, they said it was a counterfiet so I sent it to the Australian Federal Police and they had fun with it and all the resulting emails from that conversation - I don't know what happened, but they DID say the FBI were looking for someone who had stolen cheques from a bank and people who were making counterfeit cheques etc etc.

So yeah, who knows - like someone else said, anyone claiming to be "owed money" is a scam-artist.

I also had the one that said somethign along the lines of "I will get my associate to send you the 5000 plus shipping to you and I will ask you to forward the shipping costs to my shipping company" ---- do I look stupid to you?!? For real!

Don't do it if they say that either - that's a slap in the face obvious scam.