The polite death threat

What you'll see below is an actual email that I actually received.  I thought it was interesting that the people who make such a nice living sending  bogus email schemes have stepped it up a notch:  ___________________________________________________________________ I am very sorry for you, is a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don't comply. As you can see we are the members of the Deadly Networks in the world, which is responsible  for the bombing of  twin tower’s in America on Sept. 11th and the  bombing of London transport services on July 7th (AL-QAEDA NETWORKS WORLDWIDE), I don't have any business with you, my duty as I am mailing you now is just  to KILL you and I have to do it as I have already been paid for that. Someone whom you called your friend wants you dead by  all means, and this person have spent a lot of money in this venture, This person  came to us and  told me that he wanted you dead and he provided us with your name, picture and other necessary information's we needed about you. So I sent my boys to track you down this including bugging of your phones  with satellite tracking devices and they have carried out the necessary  investigation we needed for the operation on you, and if you  doubt this information am going to give you all the necessary  information about you back to you in your next reply so that you can believe me, and  my boys are  really on you but I told them not to kill you that I will like to contact you and see if your life is important to you and the one of your family.  I called my  client back and ask him of your email address which I didn't tell him what I wanted to do with it and he gave it to me and I am using it to contact you now. As I am writing you this mail my men are monitoring you and they  are telling me everything about you. Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? Since all program has be made and draw  to kill you. Get back to me now if you are ready to pay some fees to spare your Life, $15,000 is all you need to spend in this process you will first of all Pay $8,000 and then I will send a tape to  you which I recorded in every discussion I had with the person  who wanted  you dead and as soon as you get the Tape,You will pay the remaining  balance of $7,000. If you are not ready for my help, then I will carry  on with my job straight-up. WARNING: DO NOT THINK OF CONTACTING THE POLICE OR  EVEN TELLING  ANYONE BECAUSE I WILL KNOW ,REMEMBER, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS YOU  VERY WELL WANT YOU DEAD! I WILL EXTEND IT TO YOUR FAMILY,  INCASE I NOTICE SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT YOUR TELLING THE SECURITY  ABOUT IT BECAUSE A GOOD LOOK IS OUT YOU AT THE MOMENT. DO NOT COME  OUT ONCE IT IS 7PM UNTIL I MAKE OUT TIME TO SEE YOU  AND GIVE YOU  THE TAPE OF ALL DISCUSSION WITH THE PERSON WHO WANT  YOU DEAD THEN YOU CAN USE IT TO TAKE ANY LEGAL ACTION. GOOD  LUCK AS I AWAIT YOUR REPLY Ayman Alzawahiri, The information contained in this e-mail, including any accompanying documents or attachments, is from Terrorist-Network, is intended only  for the use of the individual or entity named above, and is privileged  and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any  disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of  this message is strictly prohibited. Thank you for your cooperation. _________________________________________________________________________________________________  This is a big step up, as I say.  These folks used to send me  emails detailing  how they love me and hate to bother me like they hate sudden  gazelle  attacks, but they did want me to know that with his last gasp of earthly air, their late husband, Mr Roboto, managed to say that he wanted to bequeath to me his entire fortune, conservatively estimated at $3.2 USD.  (I have come to believe that they always say "USD" to stand for "Ur So Dumb.")  The problem always was that the rebel forces that were gaining on the  capital also had the writer's bank account tied up, so if I just could see my clear to sending the writer $200,000 USD, she could bribe the  corrupt military strongman and electronically forward the money directly to my bank  account, since I was going to give her that number and my Social Security number and the combination to my toolbox. Maybe that approach to separating me from my few USDs got  a little old, so let's hear it for the new angle!  Gotta love the honesty of "my duty as I am mailing you now is just to KILL you and I have to do it as I have already been paid for that!"  Oh, how many times do we hire someone to kill someone and find out later that they didn't kill that someone, but took the money and spent it on someone else!  Here's a man honest enough to say, look, dude, I got to kill you, since I've been paid to do so!  There's a  professional pride here. And just as I started looking for a copy of my  will and arranging my personal effects,  I get to  the end and find that there IS a way  out of this predicament!  For just $8,000 USD, he will give me a cassette tape!  Side A will be  his conversations with the person(s) who  want(s) me dead, and side B will be REO Speedwagon's   Hi Infidelity.  What's not to like about Kevin  Cronin's reedy tenor and the immortal anthem   Keep On Loving You? And for $7,000 USD more, the terrorist will stop terrorizing me.  But wait,there's more! If you call before tomorrow night,  REO Speedwagon will also come to your house and sing all their hits.