My dad’s MSN e-mail account got spoofed yesterday. In addition, my dad’s aversion to travel got spoofed yesterday. As did his not-so-PC racial attitudes. All in one stroke, as you can see from this e-mail I received from his @ddress last night:<\/p>\n
How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn’t inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called “Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV\/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria. It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain.<\/p>\n
I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $500.00 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management. I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $600.00 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $1,100.00 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don’t even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i needed your help.<\/p>\n
I am sending you this e-mail from the hotel Library and I only have 2 hours, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.<\/p>\n
Thank you very much for your time.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking forward to hearing from you soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Substitute “Roumanian\/Israeli Archie Bunker” for “dad” and you’ll understand just how funny this e-mail is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My dad’s MSN e-mail account got spoofed yesterday. In addition, my dad’s aversion to travel got spoofed yesterday. As did his not-so-PC racial attitudes. All in one stroke, as you can see from this e-mail I received from his @ddress last night: How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn’t inform you about … <\/p>\n
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