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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow do you do? My name is Dr. Cornilous Baxter Throcmorton. I need to send you 34 million..
..dollars because my government want me to take part in a devilish experiment. The government contacted me and said they have instructed me to change the faces on all our spys. They said also that some will be changed into a woman. Your good friend contacted me but asks that I keep his name silient.
I will send you a check for 744 dollars. you keep the money but then send me the money and...
(This is exactly how the email read. These dudes sure come up with some weird shit.)
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Symptoms include racing thoughts, flight of ideas, and word salad
Also the belief that you are under the control of someone else...but since that covers all Tea Baggers with their God illusion.....
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)... would allow you to experience all the symptoms of a mental disease for say...an hour or two.
Obviously, a padded room or a safe place would be a requirement.
Of course, if you did participate in this scenario and didn't notice anything different, they might ask you to stay in the room!
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)didn't the email really come from Winston Corrigan?
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)In my band days..after work, we'd go to the beach (2:00 AM) and play "Airplane"
Ready for take-off sir! Roger!
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)...yen (about $280,000) per month doing easy work a few hours a week. All I had to do to get started was to reply to someone with an English-sounding name in Russia (whose e-mail address was different from the sender's address). I'm still kicking myself for not taking advantage of that "opportunity of a lifetime"
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)and they intended to prosecute me but I could have the charge waived if I paid a fee. Well, I suppose the CIA does work in Russia, bur I'm not sure they advertise it. Also his English was mediocre to say the least.
Many of the junk emails I get have return address which differs from the "sender's" address. The "sender" could be entirely innocent. I once received an email from a woman enquiring as to whether I had sent her an email promising megabucks if she replied. I assured I had not. How the true sender got a hold of my email address, I don't know. I'm sure it's not hard to pull them off the internet.