perfidy

This just in, copied verbatim, other than the cheesy background graphic:

我有新的電郵地址！

你現可電郵給我：{encode="mosesrfracisssys@yahoo.com.hk" title="mosesrfracisssys@yahoo.com.hk"}

DEAR,

BUSINESS WORTH US$22M I NEEDED A PARTNER

MR MOSES FRANCIS

- Francis Moses

I'd be tempted to introduce him to one of the, I'm sure, millions of crapweasels who try to effect such scams on a daily basis, if I knew of any of them. His entreaty was so poorly done that (ahem) it made it through my trashfilter, where all the "good ones" are instantly rejected without my ever knowing of them.

I have a small personal interest in getting him more in line with the state of the art, the "best practices", if you will, in his "industry". (The SIC code for his "industry" is, coincidentally the same as the one for "Assknobs" - look it up if you don't believe me). Messages such as his have to be at least a little better done to even be recognizable as the crap they are. Hopefully, some trollbot will pick up his email address from this page (which I've helpfully enclosed in a "mailto:" tag for easy digestion by said scum-sucking bottom-dwellers) and nuke his tiny alleged Yahoo mailbox into oblivion.

[wik] I'm not saying that "419" scams are actually so-named because they all originated in Toledo, Lima, Findlay, Fostoria, or Mansfield. But I'm not saying that they're not, either.

[alsø wik] If that really were his email address, I'd be tempted to suggest he learn to spell his own last name. But since he's clearly a bastard, he has no last name, at least not in the "polite 1950s society" sense of the word.

[alsø alsø wik] What do I know of "polite 1950s society"? Not much, to be honest, but while reading up on my family's genealogy four or five years ago, I learned for the first time that my grandfather was married 5 times, the first, third, and fifth, to my grandmother, after very short intervals of being married to other women. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.