And the prize for the most inventive, topical spam scam of the month goes to: “Ghadaffi.”

Dear sir/Madam
My names are Saif Al Islam Ghadaffi, the son of the present president of Libya. I am contacting for an urgent assistance. As you can read and see in the media, my family is presently undergoing tough time in the hand of the masses due to his long stay in power as the president of Libya for over 40 years now. Although there is no way you can satisfy human being, my father has done so many things to better the life of our people unfortunately they never appreciated his effort instead to resulted in calling my family bad names. I have already called the international community, European Union to come down and investigate things instead of taking side without proper investigation as I know that we will be vindicated.

The e-mail even includes a verisimilitudinous link to a story about the LSE investigating poor Saif for allegedly plagiarizing his doctoral thesis — imagine that!

Luckily, there’s something in it for me, or rather for David Kahane, from whose inbox I’ve filched this irresistible business opportunity:

The International community has reached a resolution for immediate seizure of our assets both in US and the UK.
I want to request your humble assistance to receive a total sum of $20.5 million US dollars which we have succeeded in moving in cash to one of our Africa coast.
You will receive this fund directly and keep in a safe keep while I shall come down to meet you for necessary investment as may be suggested by you. You should kindly let me know your percentage as we will be ready to share whatever percentage for your assistance.
Do note that this transaction is legal and risk free.
I shall await your urgent response.

I’ve tried to talk Dave out of it, but he’s on his way to one of our Africa coast for an urgent assistance to satisfy human being in tough time in the hand of the masses. I just hope he doesn’t run into any Somali pirates who call him bad names.