Go Ahead, Spam Me

Anyone else still puzzled at how your spam box fills with urgent letters from Nigeria, requesting your help, in God's name?


I don't understand.  Email is nothing new.  Spam is an expected nuisance, like children selling candy outside grocery stores and post offices.  Personally I've seen at least two different "Dateline" episodes exposing the Reverend collecting fees before he can send the moron's inheritance.  This "practice" is no secret!


Let's see, here are the scenarios used I can recall the best: a distant relative of yours has passed and left you a large inheritance for which you need to pay fees before you can receive said enormous dollar amount, someone has to transfer money from their country to yours and would be happy to pay you a hefty fee if in God's name,you'll help out, someone is ill and needs your charitable financial help.


People still fall for this.  The last Dateline expose' I saw on the topic, featured an educated woman in Connecticut who bought the inheritance bait.  She lost $200,000.00 in "fees" even though Chris Hansen confronted the Nigerian ambassador living in Greenville, SC.


Maybe what's more difficult to understand than why people still fall for this, is why from time to time I can't help but respond to these emails with a well-deserved, "Go f*** yourself."


Leave it to me.