Spam . . .

  
Lately I have been inundated with spam e-mail. It has gotten to the point that I no longer bother to read anything. I tell you, I am sick of getting e-mail about blue pills, breast augmentation, penile implants and the such.

Every now and then I will receive a little treat in my junk mail folder - a spam e-mail that actually makes me wonder and perhaps even smile for a bit. This was the latest:

From Joy Moses

How are you today? i was convince within my heart that i can trust you with all my heart but my only fear now is that i hope and pray you beleive what i have to tell you.

I am Joy as you rightly know, i am 19, My mother was an frican American while my father was from the french speaking colony of Cote D‘ Ivoire, i was living with my mother not too far from Charleston building, 601 57th Street,Charleston West Virginia USA. And i attended Charleston senior High School,1201 Washington Street E, Charleston, WV. I lost my mother sometimes ago and after her death i came to meet my father for the very first time in Cote d‘Ivoire, though he was also living in the state efore he relocated back to Cote d‘ Ivoire to set up a business.

Exactely two months and one week after i came to meet my father with the help of US consulates he died , he was very sick when i came to meet him but before his death there were some document he gave to me and he told me that everything he worked for in his life time is in the document when i crosscheck the document i discovered that my late father deposited Ten Million dollars in a security company. my late father deposited the money as family valuables in a trunk box.

I am just a girl and there is little or nothing i could do on my own and again if my late father relative find out that my late father left that kind of money in my care i don‘t know what they might do to me, so i need! you to help me contact the security company and claim the deposited Item for me as my friend and Guandian,and take me along with you. If you do this for me apart from the love i will also offer you 20% of the total money for helping me.

Please i requested for your trust and understanding because it might sound unbeleivable but it is the truth,

Yours Truly

Miss Joy Moses

Please send this information's below

Your full name and home address
Your telephone and fax number
Your international passport or Id card
Please reply me back with my private mailbox( faithjoymoses11@yahoo.fr )

Someone has far too much time on their hands - but at least they have read the classics. This Dickensian tale of a poor waif alone against the world with a line on a stash of cash is inspired. Stupid, but inspired.

Of course, being the curmudgeon that I am I immediately wondered who the heck with give a whit about Joy. I know that I didn't.

Let's deconstruct this is bit. Here we have a 19 year old girl, raised in the US, yet her spelling and grammar is atrocious. I know that people make all sorts of comments about the US education system but you wouldn't be the richest country in the world if you were churning out illiterate idiots like this!

Joy feels that she can trust me with all of her heart. Wrong, wrong, wrong. In fact. I immediately reported your electronic drivel.

Joy is 19, educated in the US, raised by parents who somehow amassed $ 10 million, yet she needs some random internet friend she has never e-mailed before or met to help her transfer the money out of the country.

Hmmmm

All I need to do is send her enough personal information that she could steal my identity, defraud me, and generally make my life a living hell. In return she will give me $ 2 million dollars and her love. SCORE Keep the $ 2 million Joy, I' do it for your love.

Well Joy. You can rot away in the Ivory Coast. I won't be sending you anything. Well, anything except for my disdain.

Is there anyone in the world gullible enough to fall for this crap?

Sadly, I expect that there must be or the e-mails would stop coming.