Mr. Kute Ali has been urgently trying to contact me for some days. He seems to know all my email addresses. And while I'm not sure I want to take him up on his kind offer of handling (to our 'mutual benefit') a multi-million dollar transaction for his bank in Burkina Faso, I do admire his rhetoric.
"GOOD DAY FRIEND, IT WILL BE A SURPRISE FOR YOU TO RECEIVE THIS MAIL," he begins forthrightly. Then, before he gets down to the (small cap) nitty gritty, he adds: "WELCOME THIS LETTER IN THE NAME OF ALL MIGHTY GOD, I am Mr Kute Ali." Punchy stuff.