As you dear readers know, living in Merida means you don't have to put up with a lot of crap that you do back home (you put up with different crap) but junk mail is unavoidable anywhere.
And that's how todays' post ties into the blogs' theme. Cool, huh?
Usually those emails announcing opportunity to become someones' investment partner are pretty elaborate. From the widow or orphan asking for help in getting her 950 billion euros out of Ghana or the bank executive in Cote D'Ivoire with a tale of an airplane crash and a millionaires dormant account of which you will get 30%, these stories from our scamming friends in Nigeria are elaborate, riddled with spelling and grammatical gaffes and are fun to read when, say, you are having a 'nothing to do' day.
That's why, when I found this email in my junk mail today, I was struck by its' casual, 'whatever' feel. There's no attempt to create a compelling story or cleverly disguise the sender; jerry.smith signs his request for your information: Mercedes Office. The mail makes me wonder if they'll give up the elaborate creative writing class approach for this more direct 'yeah I'm lying so what send me your information' attempt to lure stupid people to their fate.
This is the email from this morning:
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From: Mercedes Benz Xmas promo Hide
Reply-to: jerry.smith044@hotmail.com
To:
Date: 11/14/2009 2:09:56 PM
Subj: Re: End Of Year Promo Winner
Send your details. 1:Names..... 2:Address.....3.Phone.No.....4.Present
Country, For the claims of £950,000.00 GBP which was awarded to your E-Mail
ID in our Mercedes Benz Xmas Cash Splash
Best Regards
Mercedes Office
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