Hell’s bells. The post wherein I claim I came out akin to Mother Teresa was barely finished when I received an URGENT e-mail:
“I got your contact from an email directory and decided to contact you for
assistance. I am the son of Jonas Savimbi the rebel leader in Angola who
was short dead on the 25th of February, 2002, by the opposing Angolan Army.”
Sorry, but I can turn gypsum into diamonds when I need to. Although Jonas seems to have sixteen million dollars to share if only I’d e-mail him my bank account number…
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I’m supified when I get things like that. Does anyone really respond? I guess someone must otherwise these crackheads wouldn’t be doing it?
There was an article somewhere–wish I could track it down–where a journalist responded and followed it up through correspondence for months until they finally gave up and realized that they didn’t have a “live one.”