Once in a while we all get weird messages here or in our personal emails away from cc. At least we can all be glad it wasn't someone from Nigeria claiming that our unknown and dearly departed relative left us 50,000,000 to pick up in another country, and to please send our checking/savings account information to them in a email so they could pick it up for us
Ecclesiates 1:9-10
9What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
10Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already
in the ages before us.
Thinking about the above verses make me wonder if a Nigerian's ancestor had ever sent a messenger with something similar to the nations around them then. Maybe it said something like.......your relative has died in our nation and left 5 chests of gold and jewelry. Please send one bag of gold as a shipping fee and we will bring the said treasures to you at the first full moon, blessings