Scam Redux

Last April, I received an offer via e-mail that I could refuse: for only $159, I could have a genuine plaque of a newspaper article about me.  I didn't reply to the offer.

A few days after the e-mail, I received a phone call from one of the company reps who wanted to know if I'd like to "commemorate the article" with a plaque. I thought I made it pretty clear to the scammer  company rep that I had no interest whatsoever in "commemorating an article."

That's why I blogged about it.

Today, guess what I received in my e-mail in-box! This:

Note: I removed certain identifying info.

See what a great deal they're going to give me? They're going to let me "recieve" a whopping $30 off! I'm still not interested in the crap they want me to buy, though. I didn't reply. 

As scams go, I've received better ones lately, namely this:

 

The above e-mail might have touched my heart—or possibly another internal organ. After all, at the age of 56, the widow Carine has decided not to "get a child outside my matrimonial home," whatever the heck that means. Plus she has cancer and a "partial stroke." Though it's commendable she wants me to use 60% of the money—How much money? A dollar? Ten million dollars? She doesn't specify how much her husband deposited "with the FINANCE COMPANY"—"to the less priviledges, motherless babies homes." I do not "reply me" to her e-mail.

However, soon I receive another e-mail from Carine—this time with three exclamation points after the subject, so I know it must be important. In only two days since her first e-mail, she has aged from 56 to 61, a feat I believe—but cannot prove—might have been caused by her "long time illness."

This time she isn't so picky about how I spend the money, but I'll have to "kindly reply for further details."

I didn't reply. And if I did reply, it wouldn't be kindly.

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