five years and a day
Even if I was not a Mac user often inclined to poke fun at Microsoft, wouldn’t you say that a phrase like “Make sure your computer is ready for Windows Vista” sounds more like a Y2K siren than a hopeful herald.
On a serious note, though, yesterday the “secretary Ministerial Contract Evaluation” of the United Kingdom contacted me, personally, requesting assistance in some high-return, retirement investments here in the United States! How about that!? He made it clear that he is “very willing to go into partnership” with me.
This foreign minister, Dr. Dave Brown, closes in urgently asking, “Please you are to response to this email addreses if you are instresting: drbrown_dave@yahoo.co.uk”. I suppose he and I will have to bargain for the breakdown of shares in the returns. But, this guy must want to go out in flames since he is ready to risk his life-savings on a few, dying-breath, real estate gambits. I’ve never met this Ministerial before, but he sounds like a Harley Davidson road warrior to me.
I look forward to the day when I can get a PhD and have a similar email address: drharne_ryan@hotmail.com. It would show how serious I was about my salutation. As we all know, hotmail is for serious people.
Is your computer ready for Windows Hotmail?
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Ryan:
Why in the world would you want a hotmail account? An AOL email address sounds more dignified. dr_ryan_harne634593@aol.com
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I had no idea how many people thought and/or think I was serious about this. Over two dozen people (America, France, Japan, Ireland, likely more soon), in the past 24 hours, have searched for this scam email address, that I copied from my email, in the entry. And, obviously, I am the only hit.
Do people not realize when they receive scam emails?! Really!?
Hasn’t everyone seen the episode of The Office where Michael, in a fury when being questioned about promoting some pyramid scheme, says, “You know what, Toby: when the son of the deposed king of Nigeria emails you directly asking for help… YOU HELP. His father ran the freakin’ country…ok?!”
Apparently, some people have missed that episode..
May 24th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Thanks to the great miracle of that same Internet you can have that salutation right now! Why wait?
May 25th, 2007 at 9:54 am
That’s too funny. Greg actually responded to an email like that correcting the grammatical errors (yes GREG correcting grammatical errors!) and giving the guy suggestions on proper English use to assist in his scam (kidding of course). LOL