In This Economy?

We here at ITE don’t get a ton of (e)mail, but when we do get some it’s usually pretty awesome. So from now on, if we encounter a really great note or hilarious piece of spam, we’re going to post it so that we can all laugh about it together.

Because laughing really is the best medicine. Or something.

So, with that said, today’s piece of (e)mail comes from M.E. who had this to say:

“I assume you and your family are in good health.

I am the Foreign Operations Manager in African Development Bank Group here in Burkina Faso .  This being a wide world in which it can be difficult to make new acquaintances and because it is virtually impossible to know who is trustworthy and who can be believed, i have decided to repose confidence in you after much fasting and prayer.   It is only because of this that I have decided to confide in you and to share with you this confidential business.

In my bank; there resides an overdue and unclaimed sum of nine million six hundred thousand United States dollars ($9,600,000.00).  When the account holder suddenly passed away in a private jet crash, he left no beneficiary who would be entitled to the receipt of this fund.  For this reason, I have found it expedient to transfer this fund to a trustworthy individual with capacity to act as foreign business partner.  Thus i humbly request your assistance to claim this fund.

Upon the transfer of this fund in your account, you will take 45% as your share from the total fund, 10% will be shared to Charity Organizations in both country and 45% will be for me.

Please if you are really sure you can handle this project, contact me immediately

I am looking forward to read from you soon.
Thanks
Yours Good friend,”

Oh my. It’s finally happened. WE HAVE FINALLY GOTTEN OUR FIRST AFRICAN “I WANT TO RANDOMLY GIVE YOU SOME MONEY I JUST FOUND” EMAIL!

Best Africa art ever.

This is a really big deal for the following reasons:

• We are going to be rich… obviously.
• It shows that our contact email addy has finally slipped out into the deep end of the Internet. It won’t be long now until we start getting daily broken English erectile dysfunction emails with subject lines that say things like, “don’t be a weak in the bed, be a man in your head.” That’s REALLY exciting!
• It shows that somehow these emails are still going out despite this being one of the most played-out scams of all time.
• Did I mention we’re going to be rich. 45% of $9.6 milly is a lot of money! WOOOO!!!!

Yeah.

I think my favorite part of this email is that the mysterious benefactor who came out of nowhere to float us this amazing offer didn’t even bother to type his name at the bottom. Who are you, M.E.? WHO ARE YOU??!?! HOW CAN I TRUST YOU?!

I don’t even think he’s a prince. Weak sauce.

And that’s it for this episode of the ITE (e)mailbag! YEAH! Check out the last episode HERE.

Tags: Africa, email, idiots, ITE (e)mailbag, million, treasure

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