Ummm, is this email fake?

Definitely fake. These E-mails and similar ones alike have been circulating for quite some time. The process is to lure you in with made up sob stories and get you to believe you are receiving money from them. But further down the back and forth E-mail trail, you have to give personal information first, in order to get anything. They claim they will send money as soon as you send money to them. Some of them will actually come out and say it and make it sound pretty believable. That's when they know personal information about you, and begin to do what they will. Please don't fall for this.