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Just had some great spam from the FBI with he subject line: "YOUR FUNDS HAS BEEN RELEASE BY FBI TODAY CONTACT US NOW"
Now, I'm pretty sure that FBI personnel can write English correctly; so that was a bad start.
Anyway, the thing that really made me laugh was the name of the person with whom I'm expected to correspond and hand over my bank details:
"To effect the release of your fund valued at $3.5Million us dollars you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa the delivery officer SIR .LORD RUBBEN with the information below,
Name:LORD RUBBEN
Email:lordr@yahoo.cn
Telephone: +234.816.324.8567
You are advised to contact him with the information's as stated below:"
Well, since this email clearly has the ring of truth to it I will send them what they want as I know, of course that Sir (dot)Lord Rubben is obviously a man to be trusted. 
I'm just surprised that these 419ers haven't employed someone what can write proper Inglish for them.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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mark merrens wrote: I'm just surprised that these 419ers haven't employed someone what can write proper Inglish for them.
Times are rough in the economy... even for scammers... 
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They are like that to filter out people who would otherwise be smart enough to not send their information, so they can focus their energies on the truly gullible.
See here[^].
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I had not considered that.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Here's a great one I just got. Skip to the bottom and check out his name:
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT
IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK.
Permanent Mission of ENGLAND to the United Nations
351 East 52nd Street,
New York, NY 10022
Our Ref: UN/TH/066147/2012
RE: RELEASE OF FUND.
How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the past 3 months which ended yesterday with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS has agreed to compensate them with the sum of £750.000.00 GBP each and you have to indicate how much you lost in the hands of scammers.
This includes every foreign contractor; Inheritance, Loan and Lottery payment that have not received their Lottery/Inheritance payment, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international Lottery payment that failed due to Government problems etc. We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, these have been agreed upon and have been signed.
You are advised to contact Mr Billy Foster who is in charge of your payment through our paying centre in Europe as he is our representative in England, contact him immediately for more information on how to get your compensation of US$750.000.00 payment from the United Nations.
Therefore, you should send him your full Name, telephone number and your correct home address, Contact Mr Billy Foster immediately for your compensation payments.
Person to Contact: Mr. Billy Foster
Email: bf.UN@consultant.com
Email: Billy.UN@consultant.com
Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hoping to hear from you as soon as you receive your compensation funds don’t neglect this I advice you.
United Nations, Making the world a better place.
Regards,
Nigel Fisher,
UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
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Pretty much know that if somebody tells you they have lots of money for you, it is a scam. Love the ones where a supposedly beautiful russian woman cantacts you and wants to come to the US. Before you know it she is asking for lots of money
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Love the ones where a supposedly beautiful russian woman cantacts you and wants
to come to the US. Before you know it she is asking for lots of money
So how many times has that happened to you?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Once. The pictures were lovely, but it was tooooo good to be true. Never sent any money. Not that dumb. Got one from a friend once that was supposedly stuck in Europe and needed money. It just seemed too strange since they contacted me and I had not known in Europe.
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Hahahaha LMAO, this reminds me of Russel peters african names video
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I'm going to learn Python but it seems very pessimistic here in my country. Almost the employers in my country don't need Python programmers. They have positions for C#, Java, C++, PHP (and many other popular scripting languages...) programmers but not a one for Python programmers.
What should I do now?
I think I have to get rid of becoming a Python programmers and go for C#, Java ...
Ah, what about in your country? Is Python going to be obsolete?
Thanks!
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