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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Spammers never quit, it seems, and I boggle. Really, now, one would think I would have to at least buy a ticket in order to win a UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, if not actually live there. They hid the recipients list, so it wouldn’t be quite so obvious that I wasn’t the only “winner,” and at least the hotmail address has a proper .uk suffix. Still, I had to laugh.

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Sometimes spam is funny, and sometimes it just makes you wonder. Like this one, which came to the email address I’m using with CJ (the ads I have on my page here - I refuse to make my page unreadable by burying everything in ads, but a few here and there are okay…to be honest, though, I don’t know how long I’ll keep trying those, since they don’t seem to be making me any money) and with one or two other sites. It’s not a widely used email address, so the fact that this email came through it is…odd. I suspected at first that CJ sent it, as they often send messages from new CJ affiliate clients that want me to add their program to my CJ affiliate account, but when CJ does that, they come from CJ’s domain. This didn’t.

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Sometimes the scams that show up in my inbox just make me laugh. This is one of them:

From: Harith Ahmad Date: 1/2/2008 10:45:55 PM To: (someone else’s email address) Subject: For A Real Investment

Dear Friend

Please make a hotel reservation for me and tell me the nearest airport to you and await for my arrival.This is a transaction of $11m (eleven million USD) from a genuine source and duly certified.It is my inheritance with full legal right.

I trust that with you I will be able to invest on the right business to maximize profit and grow my money.I am not resident in your country,pls be my partner,receive me well and 20% of the total fund is for you.Trust me.

Regards

Harith Ahmad
479 Valley Road,
Valley Park # 12-04
Singapore.

Note the email - the only address showing was not mine. Such a personal message! And the “trust me” is really the icing on the cake.