The Friendly Mail from Nigeria

When I first got one of these sort of letters in my inbox, I must admit to you that I felt a little bit of elation. It may seem embarrassing to admit that now but how could you blame me when a certain guy named Mbusu or Mbuku says he have $35,000,000.00 in his hands and that he needs my assistance in order to transfer such amount from a bank in South Africa; with a promise of a handsome payback for me to boot.

I could not believe how easy it was for me to believe in such foolishness.

But luckily for me, I had a cautious mind. The first time I read thoroughly thru this sort of letter, I have decided that if the letter sender were indeed true to form, he or she should have known my first and last name in the first place. The money was that huge and certainly not a laughing matter. If Mr. Mbusu had really needed the help of an individual online, he could have been more careful to whom he would be dealing with and not someone he merely addresses with ‘DEAR SIR or MADAM:’….in capital letters at that.

I know something about robots in the net. Emails and comments are produced in mass proportion by computer programs that can send a single mail item to hundreds of email addresses by just one click of a button. So I thought, any of such mails could be most possibly produced by bots (another name for robots in the net) and should be a scamming stinking piece of….you know what.

Once in a while, I still fell and open one of those mails that say that I was a lucky winner of a certain lottery and in faraway Canada for that matter. Maybe I have forgotten that I had not bought any lottery ticket for a very long time now, and most especially not in Canada that I still open these sort of mails every now and then. If all those mails were true and verifiable, I could have been richer than Bill Gates now.

All these mails are just a waste of time I must say, and waste of Yahoo! Mail storage space that I wonder if Yahoo! could one day offer an instant manner to erase all those spamming, stinking pieces of…you know what.

If you asked me, I’d rather open up spammingly stinking mails that offers (of all things) penis enlargement or big discounts on (of all meds) Viagra. At least, now I know that ‘it’ could actually be enlarged.

Anyway, these thoughts on those spammingly stinking emails came to mind upon reading this Yahoo! News article titled “The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks” and it’s good reading. At least now I know how these friendly Nigerians operate. And it’s amazing to note that this kind of scam phisses about a billion dollar each year and that’s amazingly huge. I wonder why some entities could be so gullible.

I feel lucky I am not that gullible.

To find out more how these friendly mails from Africa actually operates and effected, you could try visiting this page and read through it carefully. I assure its very interesting and has a funny ending to boot.