This got me rolling today. It may be one of my longer posts, but read on:
This morning, in my email ,was a message from my friend Leah. It was titled--"My Predicament". I opened and read it to discover one of those poorly written, grammatically wrong emails about a person you don't know, in distress, in another country, at the embassy, and needing cash quick (via western union) to be sent so they can return home. Oh, and of course the promise to "refund as soon as i get back home". The only difference was, it was sent from my friend Leah and signed by my friend Leah as well. I laughed heartily as I read it to Chad. We both laughed. If you are privileged to know my friend, then you know she is hilarious, clever and predictably unpredictable. I just figured this email was her poking fun at the hundreds of spams I know we all get on a daily basis. I responded with mock alarm and gave a totally bunk bank account number (something like 123-456-7890) for her to withdraw as much money as she needed. I received a response right away. Another badly written letter asking for $1450 to be wired to Buckinghamshire in the UK. I laughed again. Clever Leah. How did she write that remarkably accurate spam email so fast? I responded one last time with this:
I will go today to the bank. If you need more money, I can sell my jewelry. I have quite an extensive collection of rubies, sapphires and diamonds. When you're ready to refund my money, you can mail it to my home address at:
3605 NE 78th Ave
Boise, ID 83607
I am 84 years old and it is lovely to know such a nice young woman. Are you my granddaughter?
(The address is also a total fake, by the way.) I chuckled at myself for pretending I was an old, naive lady with lots of money, jewelry and a home address that I would give to pretty much anyone. Later in the afternoon I received an email message from Leah one more time. The gist: Her email had been hacked into. Those emails I received were ACTUALLY from spammer/hackers. They were reading my responses and taking them seriously!!! I wonder what they thought of that last one :)
This morning, in my email ,was a message from my friend Leah. It was titled--"My Predicament". I opened and read it to discover one of those poorly written, grammatically wrong emails about a person you don't know, in distress, in another country, at the embassy, and needing cash quick (via western union) to be sent so they can return home. Oh, and of course the promise to "refund as soon as i get back home". The only difference was, it was sent from my friend Leah and signed by my friend Leah as well. I laughed heartily as I read it to Chad. We both laughed. If you are privileged to know my friend, then you know she is hilarious, clever and predictably unpredictable. I just figured this email was her poking fun at the hundreds of spams I know we all get on a daily basis. I responded with mock alarm and gave a totally bunk bank account number (something like 123-456-7890) for her to withdraw as much money as she needed. I received a response right away. Another badly written letter asking for $1450 to be wired to Buckinghamshire in the UK. I laughed again. Clever Leah. How did she write that remarkably accurate spam email so fast? I responded one last time with this:
I will go today to the bank. If you need more money, I can sell my jewelry. I have quite an extensive collection of rubies, sapphires and diamonds. When you're ready to refund my money, you can mail it to my home address at:
3605 NE 78th Ave
Boise, ID 83607
I am 84 years old and it is lovely to know such a nice young woman. Are you my granddaughter?
(The address is also a total fake, by the way.) I chuckled at myself for pretending I was an old, naive lady with lots of money, jewelry and a home address that I would give to pretty much anyone. Later in the afternoon I received an email message from Leah one more time. The gist: Her email had been hacked into. Those emails I received were ACTUALLY from spammer/hackers. They were reading my responses and taking them seriously!!! I wonder what they thought of that last one :)
2 comments:
I know you might not believe this after that "crying wolf" scenario, but this time I really am stuck in Nigeria with this prince and we both need some cash because the border patrol took everything we have! Please help!
Oh. My. Gosh!
I am dying over here right now!
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