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Somebody in Nigeria wants to send me money. I can’t give you the details, but let me say that if this does work out, I’ll never have to worry about book royalties again. I feel a little guilty about dealing in blood diamonds, but if this deal works out, I can make it all right by donating a lot to charity.

5 Comments

  1. miglate says:

    Don't do that. This is totally scam! One of my friend did that and he has been having trouble with local and international authorities. This is basically money loundering and you will have a lot of trouble if you do so!

  2. efrique says:

    Very amusing.

  3. Charles Sutton says:

    On a related note, have you seen 419eater.com ? Very amusing.

  4. When I receive emails like this I use this site to be sure:

    http://www.truthorfiction.com/search.htm

    (Although there is no information about somethings like Agel (Pyramid scheme?))

  5. Ken Williams says:

    When I was in grad school, a fellow student (with much more of a linguistics bent than I had) did work on the types of discourse acts present in Nigerian Email Scams. It was pretty interesting to talk about.