Doing my part / Fun with Nigerians.

For no readily apparent reason, a bunch of Nigerian scammers seem to think one of my email addresses is the sales department of a minor electronics store. Every so often I receive letters like the following:

hello sales                                                                     
I am COLLIN  by Name, A Citizen of Usa, i went to your website and saw some     
nice items which i will like to order,I Established a Company and have a        
Store in West Africa(Nigeria) in 1994. So I will like to Order some items       
inyour store, and will be making the payment through Credit Card,andwill        
be shipping to My store in Nigeria Via DHL,or EMS.TNT , UPS, So I will like     
to know if you can ship to Lagos,Nigeria. Thanks                                
WITH BEST REGARD COLLIN    

These days, I know just what to do with these credit-card thieves. I ask them what they want, provide specs off of a random website (it's almost always brand-name laptops), and collect their credit card info... which is first forwarded off to the appropriate bank, and then deleted.

I derive a small amount of satisfaction from this.

Doing my part / Fun with Nigerians.

For no readily apparent reason, a bunch of Nigerian scammers seem to think one of my email addresses is the sales department of a minor electronics store. Every so often I receive letters like the following:

hello sales                                                                     
I am COLLIN  by Name, A Citizen of Usa, i went to your website and saw some     
nice items which i will like to order,I Established a Company and have a        
Store in West Africa(Nigeria) in 1994. So I will like to Order some items       
inyour store, and will be making the payment through Credit Card,andwill        
be shipping to My store in Nigeria Via DHL,or EMS.TNT , UPS, So I will like     
to know if you can ship to Lagos,Nigeria. Thanks                                
WITH BEST REGARD COLLIN    

These days, I know just what to do with these credit-card thieves. I ask them what they want, provide specs off of a random website (it's almost always brand-name laptops), and collect their credit card info... which is first forwarded off to the appropriate bank, and then deleted.

I derive a small amount of satisfaction from this.