Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Weekly Dose of Spam

Here at Drink at Work our Inboxes are cluttered with tons and tons of other people's emails. We don't know why we receive them but it's sort of a blessing in disguise. We try to point the sender in the right direction with our advice so that they can work out whatever issue they may be having. Unfortunately due to time constraints we can't reply to all of these emails. Every week we'll bring you one of these correspondances in the hopes that you too could learn from our example and treat every misguided email that finds your inbox as your own.

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From Thomas Moor: <tommoor6@hotmail.com>

Hello Ron,thanks for your reply,it seems you have not undersood what the transaction is all about,just get the details now.I am a senior accountant of oceanic bank Nigeria plc,I discovered this fund because of my position in the office,several cases of this nature have occured and the bank managers will just swoop the whole money to their personalacounts. The onwer of this fund was a foreigner who deposited the money with our bank without having any registered next of kin,he had an auto crash and died some yrs ago and up till this moment no one has come as the beneficiary.

The new president has ordered the banks to clear up every outstanding unclaimed estate before the end of next month.And I have access to the documents concerning the fund,all you have to do now is to send me your complete name,phone number,country of residence so that I will use incase of filling any form,My intention is to donate a greater % of the money to the less disadvantaged and to churches after giving you your own % (30%).Remember,a local cannot stand as the next of kin thats is the more reason why I had to contact you.

Call me now so that I can forward to you the bank contact address to enable you write an application demanding for the fund release as the next of kin. Mr Thomas Moor+234-803-099-8337

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Dear Mr. Moor,

I'm terribly sorry but it seems that your email correspondence with Ron was disrupted as your last e-mail was sent to my address instead of his. That is a real shame that the "onwer" of the account was unable to share his wealth with anyone close to him but I applaud your efforts to take advantage of an open opportunity such as this.

It's also so generous, albeit out of character, that a bank president would be so anxious to just give away money to anyone with a name and phone number. I would love to meet him and let him know how much everyone must appreciate the great money-giving work he is doing over at his unnamed oceanic bank in Nigeria. I'm also glad there is not too much paperwork involved so that you and Ron will be able to inherit these funds as soon as possible and start on your church projects.

While your heart does seem to be in the right place Thomas, I must take issue with something you wrote that had me quite troubled. Why are you so adamant about donating to the "less disadvantaged" as you write? Aren't the regular disadvantaged people deserving enough? What type of process is involved in finding the less disadvantaged anyway? Do you find the most destitute, poverty-stricken people in the country and then give aid to people who are just slightly better off? While I am not an expert in national crisis policy, I would urge you Thomas, to start from the bottom up.

Best of luck,
The Drink at Work Team

1 Comments:

Blogger emilie said...

i try oh so hard not to literally laugh out loud where other people can hear me while reading online blogs because my roommates tend to make fun of me. (i have a really dorky "im trying not to laugh" laugh).

while reading this blog however, i failed. the "less disadvantaged" hahahaha. holy crap. retarded. i think i love you. and the taunting going on as i type this very second is well worth the hearty laugh i got from your blog this evening. thank you very much.

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