There really IS a sucker born every minute

[kaizor]

Jerry at that's Beijing just forwarded me an e-mail sent to the magazine in response to a facetious column I did a few months back lampooning the Nigerian 419 e-mail scam with my own Chinese version, appended below. Here's the letter: Article: Your Most Urgent Attention is Needed

Comments

[sunshine_kin]

I saw it in That's Beijing! :P

But I get a half a dozen of those emails every day from my graffiti.net account. I actually wrote a really angry email back once because I was so angry. I think the most common word was "fuck."

So anyway, I'm leaving Tuesday, so just wanted to say "Bye!" Best of luck to you and your family.

[kaizor]

You're leaving? Bummer! Hope you come back and visit some time, and that you keep in touch through LJ or some other way! Great meeting you and good luck in school. I envy you - starting college (something I did 20 years ago!) was a wonderful time in my life.

[chriswaugh_bj]

I always thought there was something dodgy about that Yao Ming.....

You're going to follow up on this, right?

[zhwj]

Think about it--string the guy out until you've collected enough for a college fund, retirement nest egg, new rig, and then convincingly claim everything got lost in the bank-reorg prior to listing on NASDAQ. What could go wrong?

Re: You're going to follow up on this, right?

[kaizor]

One step ahead of you. I've already got the guy signed up for sever pyramid schemes I've hatched, sold him several gen-U-ine Shang bronzes, and will be transferring title to the Marco Polo Bridge to him once his funds reach my Zurich account.

if you like 419 scams...

[anonymous]

then you'll love this site: www.419eater.com

Basically it's run by a guy who pretends to be interested in the scam, and in doing so gets the scammer to do stupid things, and waste money and time. Highly amusing :-)

imron