cant believe they are still trying this.i had one about 3 years ago,before it was really known about.the guy sent me a tsb bankers draft from a london branch(he was in africa-as he worked on the paris dakar rally!!!).anyway i went along with it as i was unsure-took the draft to my tsb branch and handed it in.they processed it and said it would clear in 4 dyas or so-i asked them to double check as i was dubious-turned out the branch that issued the draft had been closed for 2 years.
tsb fraud squad took over the case.

but i got mithered for the next 2/3 days from an african man who could barely speak english asking for the money to be sent straight away to his shipping agent-tsb had told me not to get involved so he got a big
FUCK OFF....

usual case-if it seems too good to be true-it usually is