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Princess Nafisa

Could she be the next Mrs. Hanji Sal?

I don't know, but it's worth a try. Just got one of those e-mails, this time with the subject "Re: MASSAGE FROM PRINCESS NAFISA /VERY URGENT REPLY." I usually delete these without reading them, but for some reason the princess angle got my attentino, and upon reading it, this one has a certain charming cluelessness about it that I find compelling. Usual greetings, then the story:

[...] Well, my father died earlier eight months ago and left I and my junior brother behind. He was a king, which our town citizens titled him over sixteen years before his death. I was a princess to him and I am the only person who can take care of his wealth now because my junior brother is still young and my mother is not literate enough to know all my father's wealth. He left the sum of 12.350 us dollars. (TEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS, ) [...]

On and on she goes talking about percentages and the need to keep this all hush-hush and all the stuff similar to all the other worthless e-mails, but you have to admit, the made-up royalty story is really neat. I mean, imagine the whole town naming your dad the KING! You gotta admit that's pretty spectacular, what with having an illiterate wife and all.

Anyway, I think it's time to bring someone back from his long slumber...

hELLO! i JUTS GOT YOU EMALE AND AN SO EXTICED BY GETTING MONEY!! i HAF NOT BEEN WELL LATELY AND MY AUNT SAYS THAT SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO GO LIVE WITH THE GYPKSYS IF WE DO NOT FIND A WAY TO GET MO RE MOENY COMIN G IN THE HOUSE. I HVAE NEVER MET A PRINCESS BEFORE, BUT i ALLWAYS KNEW THEY WOULD HAVE A LOT OF MONye LIKE pARRIS HILTON DOES. sHE'S PRETTY AND A PRINcESSS TWO!! just liKE YOU!

i HAVE TOLE EVERYONE YOU WILL SENT me som of your money wich is most gererlous of you. What country DO YOU COM FROM? IS IT ENGLAND ? !!! i HAVE SEE N PICTURESS OF YOUR MOTHRE THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND SHE DON'T LOOK TOO SMART BUT I ALWSYAS THOUGHT SHE HANDLED HER MOOENY BETTER THAN MOST BUT I GUESS NOT!! hHAHAAH! . MY AUNT SAY SHE THINKS YOUR PRINCESS ANNE GOT A RAW DEAL OUT OF LIFE. i CAN'ST SAY AS i AGREE WTIH HER OR NOT.

wHEN WILL MY MONEY COME HERE? iS IT GOING TO BE IN ENGLISH MONEY? i THINK WE HAVE TO UES AMERICAN MONEY SO IT MYGHT BE BETTER IF YOU SENDED TRAVELLERS CHECKS. wILL IT Be in a box or will you send a shoffered limosene with the monye in it. ? ANOTHER question is that I am very happy to see the moeny comin but how much should you THINK I SHOULD GIVE TO THE PASTOR!! HE SAYS WE SHOULD BE PROUD TO SUPPORT GODLY MIN AS THEY SPREAD THE WORLD OF GOD TO PEOPLE LIK E ME AND SOMETIMES GOD WANTS SOME PEOLE TO BE POOR SO PASTOR MIKE CAN COME MINISTER TO THEM. IF WE GET ALL THIS MONEY, I AM AFREAID HE WILL NOT COME MINISTER TO MY AUNT LIKE HES BEN ADOING. SHE LIKES HIM A HOLE LOT AN SPECIALLY WHEN THEY GO AND THE SPIRIT MOVES THEM TO MAKE PRAIZEFUL UTTERANCES IN THE BACK ROOM.

THANK YOU FOR YOU CONCERNS FOR US--WE ARE PORE BUT WE ARE NOT BAD pEPLE! so SEND US THAT BIG MOENY REIGHT AWAY!!!

come ON BIG MONYE!!!!

yOUR FRIND!!!

Now then, let's see how that turns out.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 24, 2006 11:14 AM