Possumblog

Hmmm--a bold gambit, sir.

You know how you get those daily GREETING TO YOU FROM IVOYR COASTE e-mails every day, with offers to transfer to your banks accountings lavish sums of money, usually in the tens of millions of UNITED STATES DOLLAR FUNDS?

Well, there's never anything really good in them anymore--same old stuff, and all of them seeing to have taken the political ward-boss's advice of, "if you're going to lie, might as well lie big."

But just now I received something VERY clever--rather than sounding alarm bells by promising millions upon millions of dollars, this chap has another trick up his sleeve:

Dear Friend,

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity that will be beneficial to both you and me. It involves transferring to your overseas account the sum of ($7.5;US Dollars) Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars, from one of the Fidelity Finance & Security Company here in Dakar-Senegal. [Etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. Etc.]

Say--he's not promising outragous amounts, so IT MUST BE REAL!! Although I do admit to being troubled by the discrepancy between the numerical figure of $7.50, and the text description of "Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars."

But darn the luck--I don't HAVE an overseas account.

Oh, well.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 11, 2006 02:52 PM