The following is a post to an anti-scam website describing an approach totally at variance with the more common venality scams appealing to the greedy side of the victim. This one actually appeals to the better nature of the recipient:

"I received an urgent email from Axixi Hamm stating that he only had a short time to live and was dying from Cancer. He explained that his family would not allow him to spend down his fortune donating it to third world countries and was asking for help todo so. He offered 5% of approximately 13 million dollars to help him spend down this fortune that i'm sure is non existant. He professed that he had not lead a good life and now has found god! When i emailed back telling him i would be willing to help he asked for certain personal information to send to his "Brokers " this Broker had not been mentioned before. I was skeptical and so i searched google under Axixi Hamm and found many scams with this name. Be Careful, if it sounds to good to be true, is most likely is. I'm glad i was careful enough to check it out first but imagine how many god fearing christians might feel sorry for this guy and get taken. "