A UK software engineer recently received spam claiming that the sender had been hired to kill him.

"Charles Anderson... received an email last week from a 'Gladlord Mohammed' informing him that 'i have being paid $200,000.00 in advance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employers,'" writes The Register's Joe Fay.

"However, Gladlord continued: 'i have followed you closely for one week and three days now and have seen that you are innocent of the accusation,'" Fay writes. "Therefore, Gladlord had decided to pass up the contract on Charles - if the lucky developer handed over '$50,000.00 to the account i will provide for you.'"

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