Interesting. Apparently my no-longer-existent PayPal account is in danger of some sort of administrative nightmare. Riiiiiight.

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Again with the British Lottery. Really, now, people, how many times do you think I can win this thing without entering one? This one’s not as much fun; still has bad grammar from supposedly English writers, still two people referenced in the email and a third in the return address, and still asking for my full bio for ID theft ahem, winner verification purposes, but not nearly so much entertaining filler to shoot themselves in the foot.

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Except not. Look what I got in my inbox this time! I’m interspersing comments because I can’t help myself

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Let’s start with the not-so-new, but with a slightly different twist. The Nigerian widow is now a pair of orphans in Ghana. Oddly enough, the 21-year-old needs a guardian to access his late father’s financial accounts at some non-specific “finance company.” Apparently, 18 year olds are “small” and 21 year olds, while old enough to vote, are not old enough to inherit? Let’s note, also, that Ghana is sufficiently linked to the Nigerian scams to have an entry on the subject on its national stats page on Wikipedia. (Interestingly enough, the header info referenced a Hong Kong email address.)

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(not the TV show - that’s Andy Griffith in the Twilight Zone, and I never cared for either of those shows)

Mom was ordering something or other from Amazon last week, scheduled it to arrive Saturday, and it did, and she called me in to the living room when she opened the box. She held out a book and told me when she was ordering, she noticed this book, and thought of me.

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