The Late, Lamentable Seymour Valdez

Once in a while, you'll get a spam E-Mail that makes you smile. I got one today from an English 'barrister' looking to dispose the estate of the late 'Seymour Valdez':

After these several unsuccessful attempts, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my clien t before the y get confiscated or declared unserviceable to the security company in Europe where this huge deposit were lodged.

Seymour died in an auto crash in Manchester, UK, on April 21, 2002. Despite the fact that Seymour was incinerated along with 95 other people, the terrible calamity was somehow overlooked in the local media (no reference in the Manchester Evening News archive!)

Poor Seymour! As overlooked in death as he was in life! The barrister wants to invest his 'shear' of Seymour's estate in the Real Estate business: good for him! May the barrister have better fortune than Seymour, who was the last one to join the dot-com boom, and who no doubt would have squandered what would have remained of his investments in Halliburton and various, dubious Iraqi business ventures.