Happy Times (courtesy of the United Nations)
6I don’t always agree with the UN, but they finally did something I’m happy about thanks to this email I received from one John P. Edward.
We wish to inform you that the United Nations U.N has authorized us to remit
to you a total amount of 9.500,000.00 USD One Million five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars. This amount is to be paid to you because of the fact
that you were selected as a beneficiary in the Last E-mail ballot promotion
Held in Porto Novo Capital of Benin Republic, By the United Nations
organization. This promotion is inline with the Social responsibility of the
United Nations Organization, which is held once Every year to change the
living
status of five 5lives around the Globe. This year, yourself and Four 4 other
people were randomly selected. On behalf of the United Nations Organization,
we wish to congratulate you formally.
Your draft Inheritance/Winning payment was paid out to us, by the United
Nations,And they have successfully succeeded in depositing your whole funds
with us Here at Africa development bank. They have now ordered us to take full
Responsibility in the transfer process of your funds and thus commence the
Immediate remittance of your funds to you.Be strongly informed that because Of
our Western Union transfer policy,your funds will be paid to you via our
Western Union Daily Transfer limit of $5,000.00 USD. This means that you will
Continuously receive a daily amount of $5,000.00 USD from us, and this amount
Can be collected from any of our numerous Western Union outlets in your
Current
location.
To begin receiving your daily payment as stated above, we need you to provide
Us with; Your Full Name, Address, and Phone Number. Upon receipt of the
Requested details, your first transaction will be activated and we shall then
Proceed to provide you with the Money Transfer Control Number MTCN for the
First installment and we will continue to email you others after 24 hours of
Receiving each payment. Contact Rev. Frank Morgan with this email:
redacted
CONTACT HIM WITH YOUR FULL INFORMATION.
Full Name:--------
State:----------
City:-----------
Zip Code-------
Full Address:-------
Contact Phone:------
Try to indicate this code when contacting Western Union Management to avoid
any
mistake. Here is the code. (redacted)
Yours truly,
Mr.John P. Edward
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I’m confused.
“London-based comedian James Veitch spent the last two years replying to spam emails and compiling the often hilarious conversations that ensued. “Dot Con,” a book of these interactions, was published this year and is available on Amazon.”
Some funny interactions can be read in this article
@moondrake
@PlacidPenguin @moondrake
http://www.419eater.com/
@PlacidPenguin Yeah, I was familiar with that one, too. But it was my understanding it was a fictional novel based on the Nigerian Prince scam.
I actually just got one that appears to be a scam aimed at artists. Other than the misuse of “your”, what immediately raised alarms is that I don’t do much graphic art these days, my current work is OOAK 3D stuff. It’s not totally impossible that it’s real, I did get cold-emailed by a genuine travel site that wanted to use some of my vacation photos once. But this just looks suspicious.
"I’m reaching out as I think you’re artwork is absolutely perfect for VIDA. Here at VIDA, we work with well known illustrators, photographers and artists from around the world to professionally manufacture their artwork as high quality apparel and accessories like silk scarves and tops. VIDA is backed by Google Ventures, and our mission is to work with artists to showcase their products to the world.
Collaborating with VIDA would allow you to launch a fashion brand and product line from your original artwork. We’ve seen a bit of your artwork, and we really think there could be an incredible synergy between your aesthetic and our products.
My name is Erica, and I manage Artist Relations here at VIDA, and I’d love to see if we can find a way to collaborate with you. Also, each of our artists receives a portion of net revenues shared back for each of their designs sold.
As part of our artists recruitment team, I would be thrilled if you would join us as a VIDA artist by submitting your artwork to studio.shopvida.com. In the meantime, if you have any questions at all, please reply to this email directly. I’d be more than happy to answer any questions you may have."
@moondrake
You referenced the book here, so I should HOPE you are/were familiar with it.
@PlacidPenguin Oops, for some dumb reason I thought this was the book you posted. I think it was the 419eater link’s name that confused me, as the title of this book is 419.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_(novel)
@moondrake
@PlacidPenguin != @narfcake.
Of course though, this is an unfair comparison since string comparison isn’t as simple as this.
I’d do a thing to calculate them using string lengths as well as adding up the values of each character, but it’s not foolproof since you could have two strings be the same length with different letters which happen to equal the same value. (I.e “Abc” would be the same as “aad” which would be the same as “bac”.)
@PlacidPenguin Oops squared? Sorry.
@PlacidPenguin
The semiotics would still differ.
And those are not strictly digitizable. .
@moondrake I think my dad has been selling (or trying to) stuff with some of his photos on there. No clue as to any of the details, how much he’s gotten out of it, only seen the posts on facebook
@PlacidPenguin Why not go simpler? !"@PlacidPenguin".equals("@narfcake")
@Pantheist
That’s not fun though.
@PlacidPenguin What if you split them into char arrays and compared the individual elements in order?
@spitfire6006006 Interesting. I hope he’s doing well. It’s hard out there for an artist.
@Pantheist
Tempting.
@Pantheist
I guess @narfcake and I could post pictures, and everybody else could decide if we’re the same or not.
(Although he wouldn’t necessarily agree to doing such.)
@PlacidPenguin make molds of yourselves, cast them, then send them to an impartial third party for measurement.
@Pantheist
Can’t I just send in a mold which I already had done?
@PlacidPenguin As long as it was made in the last 90 days.
@Pantheist @narfcake
On the one hand, not only would a script would be easy to write (or edit), but it would be cheaper as well.
On the other hand, making a new mold of myself would be fun, and it would be a significantly better way to compare two people (especially since hypothetically I could just be an alt of @narfcake).
@Pantheist @narfcake
(I was lazy while doing this, so I just borrowed some code. )
http://ideone.com/QFlcol
@PlacidPenguin.
Once you get all that $$$, I’ll spilt it with you in exchange for some extremely good chocolate. Just sayin’.
@f00l
You just gave me an idea for today’s Twilight Zone video for @woodhouse
I present - The Card
@f00l
What kind of chocolate?
@PlacidPenguin
Truffles. Dark chocolate or milk chocolate. Your choice.
If you want some other kind, lemme know. Will check.
A “reasonable amount” of chocolate. Half the chocolate payable up front, the remaining half payable after the funds split between the two of us has completed and all transactions have fully and completely cleared all financial institutions, and all accounts have settled.
“Reasonable amount*” to be defined as how much a healthy and normal 8 year old child can consume during a single eating session, when hungry.
*This might be more chocolate than is strictly healthy for said child to consume in a short time.
@f00l
So… You’re holding back on me?
@PlacidPenguin
Have you accepted the offer?
Have you acquired s shipping address and given me all that information?
Please complete all the necessary steps.
@f00l
Oh. I have an address for myself.
@PlacidPenguin Actually the chocolate mint is, in my opinion, better than the straight chocolate - it is smoother. Or you could try the Charles Dickens approach…
@f00l
@Kidsandliz
Good to know. The items available vary. Just luck of the draw.
@PlacidPenguin
I cannot arrange for the premier chocolate I am choosing to come your way if you don’t share the address with me.
@f00l @placid penguin’s address: Antartica, first caving ice flow to the left of 66°33’07"S 93°00’53"E
Perhaps the orange one’s Russian connection can assist you?
@f00l
What is it with people sending me chocolate this time of year?
Also, as you should know, I only eat certain types of chocolate. (Flavor and brand.)
@PlacidPenguin
Specify pls.
Would you consider expanding your eating range if the chocolate were made on the site it shipped from and you had an ingredient list?
@Kidsandliz
This sort of circumstance might require a signature and ID for delivery.
UN Official Business and all.
@f00l
I only eat certain chocolate from certain companies (for the obvious reason, and out of personal opinion).
Company/brand name would possibly help.
@f00l I am sure someone here has good enough photoshop skills that I can be provided with what is required.
@PlacidPenguin
http://www.sweetshopusa.com/
They make all sorts of chocolate things on site, and they (i have heard) make a large % of the chocolate truffles sold in this country - almost all their business is shipping truffles and similar to other chocolatiers to be re-branded.
They do sell their truffles and other chocolates under their own name, but that’s a tiny portion of the business. Their own brand name for their truffles is “Fudge Love”.
I don’t believe the are involved in any products other that chocolates and other candies.
They are carried by Neiman Marcus, at least locally in Fort Worth.
I can get full ingredient lists, but I might have to wait till Monday to do that.
They are just about the nicest people ever.
@f00l
I looked at the website.
Found a link near the bottom which helped me.
(Well, bottom of the screen while on mobile site.)
Anything from that website would be good. Although it’s just a matter of if I like the flavor.
But…
I’d have to pass on any chocolate until the 20th.
@f00l
I was looking at the site, and while I found stuff that I like, shipping is ridiculous.
It would be cheaper for somebody who lives near there to pick up an order and ship it via USPS flat rate 2 day shipping.
@Kidsandliz
Why is it that I suspect that if I arrange to ship out chocolate to the geolocation you specify, you’ll be hanging out there trying to impersonate @PlacidPenguin when the package arrives?
@PlacidPenguin
I know these people a little. What I would arrange to send would be stuff listed on the website … but … special arrangements.
PS best to let them ship. They are pros. They know how to package and ship chocolate properly.
But I know stuff, I order by phone, so, no worries. Phone order, not web order. Custom arrangement.
PS after the 20th is fine.
PPS I may put anti-@kidsandliz measures in place to prevent … ah … misdirection.
PPPS how are your arrangement found with the UN and John Edwards?
@f00l @Kidsandliz
Coordinates: 32.9818506,-96.84508779999999.
@PlacidPenguin
I’m going to need a conventional postal/UPS/FedEx street address assigned to a residence or business, I fear.
No geolocation or whatthreewords deliveries at present.
@f00l
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If Meh isn’t conventional, then @snapster has been successful.
@PlacidPenguin
Meh tracks orders by a what-three-words method, but does not address packages that way.
We’re still in the era of postal addressing for shipments within the US.
@f00l
There’s a room at that address which has been overlooked.
In it, a penguin, a frog, and a lizard can be found.
@PlacidPenguin
I Believe.
@PlacidPenguin You do know that @f00l will need to know which storage unit is yours… (presuming google maps correctly identifies by those coordinates)…
@f00l or you could just save your breath, effort…whatever… since you already have my address (just sayin’ - grin)
@Kidsandliz
I suspect you of plotting to your own advantage here.
Hmmmm.
@f00l I do not plot. I scheme. There is a difference (insert evil grin here)
@Kidsandliz
You want the delivery?
@PlacidPenguin
Don’t help @kidsandliz be greedy.
@f00l
She doesn’t need help.
@Kidsandliz It’s like the difference between tactics and strategy.
@f00l YOU have control over your own purse strings… just sayin’ Don’t blame the rest of us. : )
@PlacidPenguin Of course - chocolate is necessary to one’s health, happiness and future well being (well good chocolate that is, not the crappy stuff). When I used to canoe across the state of Florida with adjudicated youth we’d fill a 1L bottle with M&M’s. I got very good at opening that with one hand, eating some all the while paddling with a juvenile delinquent in to bow of the boat and not get caught. We’d joke at night if we had had our Vit. M yet today. Kids never caught on nor caught us.
@moondrake So which is which? I figured scheming was doing both. And sounded fancier, more elegant besides. Gotta be sneaky if one is going to be devious. Have I sounded innocent enough yet? LOL
@Kidsandliz
/giphy plotting
@Kidsandliz Plotting seems more long term and global to me, so it would be strategy, whereas scheming seems more goal oriented, so it would be tactics.
@moondrake Hmm so I was right then, scheming for short term goal of chocolate. Got it. LOL
@moondrake my short term goal
Of course first I have to get some. I figure the day after easter is a good day for that, because @PlacidPenguin would be a fool to give up the @f00l’s kind offer.
@Kidsandliz
It’s not so much the offer which makes me hesitant, but anything which comes afterwards (not chocolate related).
@PlacidPenguin Well you might be surprised…(in a good way and not in a nuke your house with a glitter bomb way)…
@Kidsandliz
What if glitter bombs are a good thing?
@Kidsandliz I scored a bunch of Lindt white chocolate truffles on after Christmas 75% off sales and I have a big bag of super dark Belgian chocolate from Costco, so I am rich. Plus on the cruise I squirreled away a whole lot of white chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, dried cranberries, pecans and cashews from the breakfast bar (intended for oatmeal). I mixed them up to use as trail mix for the gaming convention but ended up toting plates of cookies to the games instead, so I brought my impromptu trail mix home.
@PlacidPenguin then I am sure @f00l can oblige you if you ask nicely…
@Kidsandliz
I’ll sell you my turn for a picture of cheese (taken by you and not pulled from the internet).
@PlacidPenguin
No turn selling. The sender will not cooperate.
@Kidsandliz
Now’s your chance to find a loophole.
@PlacidPenguin
@f00l Hmm… I wonder where I can buy a penguin costume. Or better yet just hire a different penguin to intercept it for me.
@Kidsandliz
I have a few penguin costumes.
@Kidsandliz
Now would be a great time for you to make your case to @f00l.
@PlacidPenguin
@kidsandliz has a serious addiction problem with chocolate. It’s already messing up her fingertips when the chocolate gets all melty.
I fear to be an enabler.
@f00l
Better to mess up one person than two.
@f00l
Also, I only freely consume milk chocolate and that stuff which labels itself as “white chocolate”.
Too lazy to look for the Nigerian thread… the offer is still open that if you pay my way and expenses (in advance) I will be glad to go collect your money from the African development bank in person so you don’t have to wait for those daily payments.
@Kidsandliz
https://meh.com/forum/topics/perplexed-by-people-making-assumptions
@PlacidPenguin Thank you. I knew someone would do my drudge work for me LOL
@Kidsandliz
Someone reads the Drudge Report for you? Good deal!
I hope whoever does this has a tough immune system.