African Inheritance email Scam

Criminy.
Last spring I logged into a local Casino website to check out performance times for one of their shows.
I noted that they had a monthly "newsletter" of sorts (schedules, attractions, etc.) available to those who "joined" the website.

So I "joined" their website at that time by submitting my email addy attached to the name of a deceased uncle... I did so in order to track just which email and spam would come to me as a consequence.
Mind you, they stated unequivocally that they did NOT use the names to compile mailing lists to sell to advertisers, and that the addy/info was NOT distributed to anyone...

Evidently, some crooks must have stolen their data somehow.
;-)

I've gotten all kinds of spam email addressed to my deceased uncle... and the underlying theme behind the onslaught is unsavory.

All of a sudden I'm getting invitations for my uncle to avail himself of "Christian Dating Services", "Christian Money Lending", a plethora of Instant Mortgages, Equity loans and Credit Card offers (all at radically high rates of interest), "Vee-agro" and "Cee-alice", over-the-border Meds, Herbal Weight-Loss(!) and Get-Rich-Quick schemes...
all apparently targeted/crafted to appeal to the (typical) "Casino Patron",
and all sent to my poor dear deceased uncle!

But the topper, my FAVORITE, is the endless variations of the "UGENT MESSAGE FROM UGANDA" where the "bank official"/"Barrister"/"deposed ruler's nephew" tells me that an individual bearing my deceased uncle's name just happened to meet his own fate in Africa... leaving an estate of $14+million and no immediate family or heirs.
It seems as if all my deceased uncle needs to do to collect the largesse is to collaborate with the sender(s) and participate with them in a "funds transfer"... and he can have the $14+million (less a few Agency and Transaction Fees, of course).

In the past few months I've gotten dozens of these emails... all infinitesimally different and all the same,
and all from "the people who stole the data from the Casino".

Isn't it a shame how the Casino's reputation is tarnished by the association?

Those dastardly data thieves have impugned the integrity of the Casino Operators!

SHAME on them!

;-)