Should I report this and where?

Question

I got a really weird e-mail. here's the e-mail:
My name is Mr. Willson Banny, a Banker with one of the leading banks here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire West Africa; I am the personal accounts manager to Mr. William Wu, who used to be a contractor with an oil servicing company based here in Cote Ivoire. My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2000 in which all passengers on board died. Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful. I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
Of particular interest is this large deposit with our bank here, where the deceased has an account valued at about ($15 million US dollars) They have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will declare the account unserviceable

And thereby send the funds to the government treasury. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last 5 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account valued at can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. If you can handle this with me, reach me by sending the following informations now through this email account:

1. Your Name
2. Postal Address
3. Date of Birth
4. Telephone and fax numbers
5. Profession with position

To me it's screaming scam

Just a sidenote. This was sent to my hotmail address. not my Yahoo address.

Answer 1

SCAM! Now I've screamed at you. This has been going on for years! Get rid of it, don't open any more and get a spam program if you don't use Yahoo email. If you use Yahoo, hit the spam button and block this stuff.

If you use Outlook or Outlook Express, get Spamfighter. It's free and will run on either one.
http://www.spamfighter.com/Product_Info.asp

Answer 2

There is no point reporting reposts, yahoo should have a feature that stops you from asking the same question every minute.

Answer 3

This is not something you can report because this is from a lawless country in Africa. Our law enforcement can't stop it, its not their jurisdiction. It is sad that these people are trying to scam us and even sadder that it must work sometimes because they are still trying it.

Answer 4

delete it its a scam and to stop all scam email use zonealarm firewall you can set up a email blocker on it that will check out all scam email and you can add that email address to the email blocker then that scam cant email you again

Answer 5

Best thing to do is just delete it. If you use Yahoo mail you can mark it as spam so it filters it out.

Answer 6

UGH! I never open emails from people that I don't know. Good way to get a virus too.

Answer 7

It's scam send it to [e-mail]

Answer 8

I got more than 1000 of this email,,, just ignore,,, you will stay in reporting for ever....

Answer 9

I get that almost every day, I delete them.

Answer 10

furthermore, if the money was to be yours, they would send you the account info to acces it yourself not the otherway around.

SCAM!!!