SPAM!

If anyone has ever watched Fonejacker on Channel 4 in the UK, you will understand why I find receiving junk mail so utterly hilarious!

Normally I try not to read junk mail, I filter it to just go to a different folder, where all the poor little unread emails disappear into a big black hole. Sometimes though, one claims in the title to be a reply to something I have sent, and it usually involves a lottery draw, which I have been lucky enough to win, without even entering! These ones prove to be great entertainment, and I'd love to know who writes them.

Today I read one with the subject "Your Ref. NG/ST/GBS", leading me to believe that maybe I ordered something with that reference number. But no...this was telling me that due to illegal activity that I had carried out, I was putting my inheritance money at risk. Hmmm!

Funny that I should be getting inheritance money from someone in Nigera that I never met.

I continued to read on...and then the REALLY funny bit came.

"This card centre will send you an atm
card which you will use to withdraw
your money in any atm machine in any part
of the world,but the maximum is
ten thousand,five hundred United States
dollars per day. So if you like to
receive your funds in this way please let
us know by contacting the Dhl
Courier Company"

DHL?! Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!

It then goes on to describe how DHL will deliver my card to me for a fee of $200. Seems like a bargain to me.

So that was the most entertaining moment of my day so far, and now it's 18:50, so I doubt anything more excellent will happen than that.

Also by the way, this story may resonate with you if you have read Danny Wallace's "Yes Man", in which he says yes to everything, including such a spam email as the above. Very funny indeed!