I saw this on the news. People have actually lost ten's of thousands of dollars. If you respond and they think you'll bite, then they will actually send you airline tickets to Africa and put you up in a hotel. Later on they arrange a "meeting" at a bank (after hours of course) and work out the details. It involves you having to wire cash (yours) for "bribe money" so they can get everything past the police and government. You then go home and wait for your millions to arrive, which of course never do.