How about this - Should I respond?

[DTCwordfan]

Just received a spam e-mail from one Ms. Aisha Gadaffi

$10.5 million sitting in the EcoBank of Burkina Faso looking for a home in the UK.

Yeah!!!!! It's Christmas.

I have nominated some one called Fred the Shred to receive this.

[Mamyalynne]

That is very generous of both them and you at this time of year.

[Craftypig]

You better not respond because she has also sent me an e-mail and I want it ALL, it will go towards the $25million dollars oil revenues I am in line to receive from my long lost uncle that lived and died in Nigeria recently...

[MantaRay]

Do not respond to the email or click on any links shown on it. Delete it.

[sherrardk]

Hi DT, I have got $27 million just sitting in a drawer upstairs, would you like that too?

[DTCwordfan]

It has already been deleted - shadow opening of it......

but amusing - now where is my Euro ticket for tomorrow......

[starone]

I've got a jar full of small change. That any use?

[Mosaic]

I've got some Tesco coupns but they run out tomorrow - Ms Aisha best be quick if she wants them.

[johnk]

I'm getting my PPI back!! Amazing as I've never took any out!

[factor-fiction]

It's not fair- I've only been offered $8.5 million
"The Government of the West African Countries (ECOWAS) under the African Union (AU) have recompensed you following the meeting held with the Government of the various countries' high commission with the AU chairman, Muammar al-Gaddafi for the fraudulent activities carried out by her Citizens on you. "

[Dodger666]

As we all know some people do respond to these scam e-mails.

http://www.dailymail....ish-lottery-scam.html

[MRsnail]

you can report all things like this - all spammy emails etc and ofcom can investigate too

[Mamyalynne]

I do believe the post was tongue in cheek, though of course people are taken in by these things.

[MRsnail]

oops lol

[David H]

Inspired by these long running offers of money from nowhere the governments weren't going to miss out on such an easy way to generate revenue from thin air. But while the scams rely on fooling a tiny percentage of millions of recipients, the UN set up carbon trading, where by law countries involved must charge over the odds for energy which is then bought and sold to allow traders and associated neerdowells to earn silly amounts of money without creating or adding absolutely anything to the system.

And then, to add insult to injury, if the market discovers (as it recently has in Europe and Chicago) you can't keep it going very long as people can't actually spin straw into gold however much help they get in subsidies to start the machine rolling, the governments go one step further and simply fix the market and use extortion to enforce the price.

The difference between the scams and the carbon trading is at least people choose to pay the scammers. No one chooses carbon taxes but we all have to pay them in Europe.

[squarebear]

Mrsnail - I wouldn't advise sending this on, it makes you as bad as the spammer. Just delete it. Nobody will investigate it if you do send it on.

[bigbadmarty]

David H ; hello I - know nothing about this ! Have you got a link please - got a bit of free time to educate myself this week

[DTCwordfan]

Just think of the Carbon exposure, David H has created by responding to this thread. Must be worth 0.000000000000000002 of a penny (UK or even American)