So, can someone tell me what the deal is with the international widow who keeps sending me pleas for help to get her husbands fortune laundered to her in some asylum country she had to flee to to escape revolutionaries? I get about one of these every other day! For the life of me I cannot figure out the catch here. As we all know spam like this is designed to give you a virus, or trap you into releasing your password, or some other such nonsense. I don’t see where this email can get that from you, or what the motive to it is. All common sense tells me the mail is a hoax. :) But, what is the damn motive! Someone tell me! It is driving me nuts! Anyway, here’s the infamous email. :)

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From: rose williams

Date: Mon Aug 19, 2002 08:21:00 PM America/Phoenix

To: williams.rose1@caramail.com

Subject: PERSONAL

From Rose Williams. Attn. I am Rose william , the first wife of late Chief Amuso Azaguma Williams from Sierra-Leone. I got your contact via internet in my desprate situation searching for a help. The source of your contact gave me courage and confidence to rely on you. I am writing you in confidence to seek your assistance to stand as my Husband foreign partner to claim cash of Eighteen Million United State Dollars (US$18 ,000,000.00) deposited in a trunk box by my Late Husband before his death with a security company here in Abidjan, Cote dIvoire to your private account. My late husband Chief Amuso Azaguma williams , a Native of Mende District in the northern province of Sierra-Leone, was the General Manager of Sierra-Leone Mining orporation (S.L.M.C), Freetown. According to him, the money was miscellaneous income from mining activities, Over-draft and minor sales. Before the civil war between the rebel forces of Major Paul Koromah and ECOMOG Peace-Keeping Forces that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal of the democratically elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels, my Husband had already Made arrangement for me , and my children and I have to be evacuated to Abidjan, Cote d` Ivoire. My husband and some other top government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels because of their loyalty to the President. We are in this strange country suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugees .. Our only hope now lies on you and the money deposited in the security company. To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in The following ways : 1. To claim the consignment containing the fund in your name to your country and make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country with you as the overseer ; 2.To secure a college for my children in your country for them to further their education ; 3. And to make arrangements for us to travel with you to your country after you have claimed and transfer this fund. All the necessary documents issued to my late husband at the time of deposit are in my custody. For your assistance, I have decided to offer you 20% of the total sum to you. Please feel free to get in touch with me or my son abba williams on this number +225 0775 6823 immediately you receive my mail because we are waiting you call for further explanation . Best regards, Rose Williams.

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This world and it’s ever-mind-numbing populace never cease to amaze me. Is it something in the water? Perhaps it is an airborne contaminate? Everytime I turn around I see another example of why all the intelligent life in the universe doesn’t stay long on this planet. You’d think after all the testing and probing they’ve done, they’d be able to find intelligence somewhere on this planet….

Anyway, today I receive this email from McAfee - the virus killer people… Well, the email states, “Tired of spam email? Of course you are! Award winning McAfee.com Spamkiller! Save $10! Buy Now!” Ok, let’s pause to absorb this……….

At the bottom of the email it says, “You received this message because you have agreed to accept offers from HomeSavingsPlace.com or one of our carefully selected marketing partners. If you believe this message was sent in error, or if you would no longer like to receive email from HomeSavingsPlace.com, please send a blank email to remove@offers.homesavingsplace.com.

::SIGH::

Well, my day started around 0230 with a call from work. No problem there, that’s what I get paid for right? Not a big issue, and dealt with it rather quickly. Problem is, I’m on this friggin diet, and going to bed hungry now. So, I was starving by 0230. That made it quite a challenge to get back to bed, and so did the fact that we are trying to save money on our electric bill. Because of this, the ambient temperature was 77F. Not so bad, some would say, but I can’t stand it that hot! Sheesh!

So of course I was running late this morning. Get in the car and speed off to work. What’s this? According to my gas guage I have about 5 miles of gas left. SHIT! So, off to Circle K for me. That’s ok, right, because I can get a quick breakfast there (yummy Circle K dog and cheese). So, finally all set to go to work (way late), and I’m listening to some good tunes (Best of Great White). Then I get a really bad pain in my chest right where you would expect a heart attack. The kind of pain you would expect a heart attack to feel like (or at least I would). It continues to get worse and worse, and I finally place my hand on my chest only to find that I am burning a hole in my shirt pocket, my chest, and now my hand thanks to a stray collection of embers from my cigarette.

Man! I knew I should have called in sick. Well, at least I wasn’t having a heart attack! :) LOL!

So much time passing right by, and so little happening. We are in limbo right now with just about every aspect of our life. We will be going for try #2 at having a baby soon so wish us luck with that. With a little bit of luck, we may find ourselves new parents. Wouldn’t that be grand?

Heidi and I have started a new diet program. Man, do I ever hate diets. But, it’s all worth it in the long run, right? Problem is I usually don’t have enough gusto to make it to the long run. This time it is a regular old fashioned diet. You know, one with exercise included. I know, I know, in this day in age you should be doing one of those trendy diets where you can loose 90 lbs in 2 minutes, etc. But, I tried one of those, and while it did work, it didn’t help me keep it off. So, I am trying the old tried and true “Eat Less and Exercise More” diet.

Speaking of exercise, did I mention that Paintball Games rock? If you haven’t tried this sport out, you must! Just like snowboarding, you are exercising and you don’t even know it (till the day after). So, my guns are performing well. The older gun I have is doing fine now and I don’t think I will have any issues in the future. The new gun isn’t doing as well, but thank god I have a warranty. Actually, after I fixed the cocking knob this last run, I bet it will be fine from here out. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money to play Paintball anytime soon… Ugh… Gotta save up for snow season, ya know!

Business is doing ok. * is still getting a nice flow of sales. Nothing close to make a living off of, but it is moving at least and paying the bills. I am in the middle of a redesign right now, so that is taking up most of my time. All I can say is if you ever design a web store, don’t use SMC Technologies’ cart. There’s a few things they don’t disclose in the beginning and they don’t offer refunds. Once I get the new cart designed, it will be time to try my hand at some face to face sales here in town. See if that will bring me enough business.

All for now.