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To: Smokin' Joe

When I was young and naive, I sent twenty dollars to someone in Eastern Europe. I got more requests for money and a gameboy for her son. I almost sent my gameboy too. When I said I could not send the money because I didn't have any, she stopped emailing me. Lesson learned.


3 posted on 06/27/2006 3:06:55 AM PDT by cyborg (then comes baby in the baby carriage)
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To: cyborg

"When I was young and naive, I sent twenty dollars to someone in Eastern Europe. I got more requests for money and a gameboy for her son. I almost sent my gameboy too. When I said I could not send the money because I didn't have any, she stopped emailing me. Lesson learned."

I got a Match.com email from a "lady" in Russia. At first I was a little sympathetic but "her" emails became suspicious almost immediately. I would email something like "tell me what you did last night" and "her" responses were poetry and declarations of love. Finally "she" said "I'm coming to you, I'm working on the papers". It sounded like a threat. Then woe betide "she" needed 400.00 to get the paperwork completed. I was tempted to send monopoly money and even looked in to contacting the FBI. But then I thought that they probably couldn't do anything and I might bring troubles on myself. I suspect the emails were computer generated and sent to thousands.
Finally I wrote back that this isn't normally how its done, usually we would find out more about each other then maybe I'd visit and we'd see how we got along, etc. I never got another email.


7 posted on 06/27/2006 3:57:20 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: cyborg
When I was young and naive, I sent twenty dollars to someone in Eastern Europe. I got more requests for money and a gameboy for her son. I almost sent my gameboy too. When I said I could not send the money because I didn't have any, she stopped emailing me. Lesson learned.

What I want to know is, how do these people in Nigeria know about my penis size?

13 posted on 06/27/2006 4:18:27 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock.)
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