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Don't think this just happens on the Web. A few years ago I got into a conversation with an Australian tourist who proposed a similar scam where he would deposit his money into my bank account. At the time I politely declined his offer but now I wish I accepted and had some cops to meet him at the bank. Why? Because he probably tried to pull the same scam on others. This scam is VERY COMMON down here in South Florida.

Real story. I know someone who was scammed out of $26,000 by an American on some Pacific island. Might have been Samoa. The Pacific Island guy told big stories how he was helping the natives with colloidal silver. He was brewing it in 5 gallon plastic buckets. But that he needed money to buy and fix up a boat so he could minister to the sick people on all the islands who were clamoring for the product. He said the colloidal silver enterprise would be a success and the money would be paid back

The $26,000 was sent and the sucker stopped hearing form the islander. Finally he went to investigate and he found the scumbag was a drunk and had squandered the money. Some work was done on the boat project but the money was literally passed away. The man who got scammed was a great human being who really wanted to help the sick people....... Unfortunately he was also prime scam material.