I don't know if any of you are experiencing the same phenomenon I am, but you may remember having received no less than a couple hundred requests from a former daughter of a general, or niece of a king in Nigeria who has some 32 Million dollars in a bank account that only YOU can help them access, and they'll be willing to split the booty with you if you can just help them.
Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs that we got so many of those e-mails, only because it was an indication that it had actually worked on some stupid people.
So now, I'm getting a new strain of e-mails. Usually from a Nigel, Thurston or some other name that addresses me with all sorts of British sounding formalities and figures of speech. What's more, they even provide links to news stories on BBC to help build the credibility of their story that I somehow miraculously play into.
I kinda want to be commissioned by the FCC and the FBI or Interpol to go along with this ruse, track these bastards down in their home country, and get paid by NBC Nightline to publicly out them and officially be known as "Astro: The cyber-bounty hunter" (Note the reference to the Jetson's dog). It totally sounds lame, and I'm regretting having written that last line already, but you get the idea.
What's funny though is that only the truly greedy and unethically opportunistic folks are the only ones getting punished in this scam. Maybe this is a great karma circle.
Maybe I need a better spam filter.
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