Time for a Sarcastic Saturday Post...and a Chuckle!

© Kaspars Grinvalds

Going back twenty years ago, these letters were a lot more fun to receive via snail mail. Always from Nigeria, and if nothing else the stamps were fun to collect. The letters always went home with somebody from the office for their kids.

Well, there's simply no place we can hide. Sooner or later they find us, but at least it was in my spam folder. This morning's email below could be one of my most favorites, and certainly deserves points for creativity!

I NEVER respond, but if I was, Sheila suggested the following:

Dear Mr. Braunwalder, Mrs. Virgie Brown is correct. I died in a car accident last week. Please send her all funds that were due me!

Just keeping it light on a rainy Saturday morning in Florida. Wishing everybody a great weekend!

Attention: Beneficiary
 
I am Mr. Braunwalder Garland of IMF Head Office.
 
Your email appeared among the beneficiaries, who will receive a part-payment of your contractual sum of 6.5 Million US Dollars and has been approved already for months. You are requested to get back to me
for more direction and instruction on how to receive your fund.
 
However, we received an email from one Mrs. Virgie Brown who told us that she is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident last week. She has also submitted her account for us to transfer the fund
to her. We want to hear from you before we can make the transfer to confirm if you are dead or not.
 
Please in confirmation that you are still alive, you are advised to reconfirm the below listed information to enable us facilitate an immediate payment for you.
 
1 Your full names
2 Your present contact address.
3 Your telephone & Fax numbers.
4 Your Occupations/age/sex.
5 Your Private E mail Address.
  
Once again, I apologize to you on behalf of IMF (International Monetary Funds) for failure to pay your funds in time, which according to records in the system had been long overdue.
 
Thanks,
 
Mr. Braunwalder Garland