Tag: email scams

A New E-Mail Scam

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Everybody knows that Nigerian princess thing is getting old and running out of gas, so new email scams are badly needed by the dishonest little bastard community. My editor was the target of one yesterday.

Forget that routine with investors from Uloozistan. How about an email from a real person whom you know and trust? Oh, yeah, that’ll work!

So she gets an email, ha-ha, from our boss, whom she’s only known for 25 years or so, asking her–in English limping with a very painful stone in its shoe–to please buy and send him a great big Amazon gift card–which he would surely do himself, only he’s gonna be busy on an errand of mercy, dontcha know–and he will gladly pay her back on Tuesday…

Whatever did we do to earn so much disrespect? This scam wouldn’t fool a puppy. My eye, do they think we’re all college students?

The worst part of it is, there wouldn’t be so many of these scams if they didn’t actually fool people. That’s the worst of it.

 

‘This Is My Lucky Day!’ (2017)

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It isn’t everybody who gets a chance to hook up with the daughter of an African warlord. And by cracky, she was already in love with me, too!

This Is My Lucky Day!

And the computer is back to stinking up the joint today, so I can’t post a picture and I have no idea how much of this little post will actually get published.

 

This Is My Lucky Day!

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Well, well, well! Waddaya know, I’m gonna be rich! At least, according to an email I received last night. Here, check it out.

“My dear”–promising start! She is looking for “a trusted person who can assist me… I am Miss Zenab Warlord Ibrahim Coulibaly 24 years old female…” Hoo-hah. She is the daughter of a warlord in the Ivory Coast. She says I can call her Princess Zenab for short. Her diligent search revealed that I’m the man of her dreams.

See, she’s looking for “a long-term relationship and investment assistance”–from me, of all people–and then “I will relocate to your country and settle down with you.” That could be the tricky part. But to sweeten the deal, Poppa left her $27.5 million in the bank, and once we get that transferred to my local S&L in Metuchen, it’s smooth sailin’. I wonder what it’ll be like, settling down with a warlord’s daughter. I hope she and my wife will get along. And Poppa is dead, so I won’t have to worry about having to work for a father-in-law who’s an African warlord.

Blamed if I can see any downside to this deal!