Hmmm… well, those Nigeria Con­nec­tion emails are quite funny, aren’t they? I’d be a bil­lion­aire if I’d answered only 1/10 of them. Ok. Now, it’s a well known fact that these guys are not very tal­en­ted in writ­ing or trans­lat­ing these let­ters. Let­ters writ­ten in Ger­man are just as funny as trans­la­tions by Altavista’s Babelfish or any other free auto­mated trans­la­tion pro­gram. But … what’s that:

[…] I am in search of an agent to assist us in the trans­fer of ($15.5M)FIFTY MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS. […]

Fitfy and fif­teen. The pro­noun­ci­ation is quite sim­ilar. That’s, how­ever, not that obvi­ous for four and five. For me $50.4M sound much bet­ter than piff­ling $15.5M. But … it’s only me.