Now a Soviet scam? I thought this thing only happened in Africa!

Hey, I have copied and pasted the nonsense below, gang. [Again, is there a cop out there somewhere in cyberspace?]

Read on, if you will, what the crooks have to say below. Bill

Kindest attention,

I am David Malcolm Thomas, Personal/ Corporate Legal Adviser to Mikhail
Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following
companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman
CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with its
branches all over the world). I seek your partnership to accommodate the
sum US$45M (Forty five Million United States Dollars)
for us.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky got arrested for his involvement on politics in
financing the leading and opposing political parties (the Union of Right
Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic
party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) which posed treat to President Vladimir
Putin second tenure as Russian president before he was re-elected On
March 14, 2004.

Visit the following site for detail:
http://www.mosnews.com/mn-files/khodorkovsky.shtml
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/29/mbkhnewcharge.shtml

The fund (US$45M) in question was approved by the Government of Russia
for payment of various YUKOS OIL contractors/suppliers to prevent them
from loosing the money they invested in the numerous contracts they
executed for the above firm. The Government had already concluded plans to
frozen all the accounts in Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s name both corporate
and personal before I connived with the Accountant General of YUKOS OIL
(who is also my partner in this transaction) to raise a memo stating
that YUKOS OIL owe contractors the above amount which was finally
approved for payment after some deliberations. Actually, we have paid all our
contractors both local and foreign because they agitated for their
payment when they had that my boss was arrested.
YOUR ROLE:

I will present you / your company as one of the contractors we are
owing so that you can stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum or
PART of the fund according to your financial strength or the strength of
your company. I will arrange for the documentation that the payee bank
will need to transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to
relocate to American continent and never to be connected to any of
Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded
before as soon as possible. You will be rewarded with 10% of the total sum
for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?
As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will give you more
details. Thank you very much. Please send your reply to
thomasdm_21.yahoo.co.in in for confidential reasons.
Best regards
David Malcolm Thomas.