by aaron on September 6, 2010
Here is a nice spam email I got this morning. It was so amusing that I thought I would share it with everyone
Dear,
I am Attorney Loo Tan Leng (Esq.), the managing attorney for Leng & Co Associates (Malaysia). It is explicable for you to grow apprehensive reading from me since there was no previous exchange between us. However, I implore your attention on the subject matter here to contained.
A deceased client of mine, who died in 2002, had left large sum of account in his bank account totaling USD Six Million approximately. Documents of the account are in possession.
Upon maturity legal responsibilities, the bank has requested that I present the beneficiary of the Estate. This reason underscores my contacting you since you share the same family name with the deceased.
I am disposed to present you to the bank as the beneficiary of the Estate after procurement of necessary documentations applicable for inheritance.
Please be assured that there is no ramification (legal or otherwise) in the means of consummating this transaction hence the process and procedure will be conducted in accordance with legal applicable requirements.
Please, revert accordingly to indicate your interest to be part of the aforementioned transaction.
Revert me through my private Email: <redacted>
The grammar just made me laugh out loud. I think that it came out of Google Translate.
Not to mention the Dear ,
It’s like they couldn’t even bother to get a mail merge to work properly.
by aaron on January 17, 2010
It’s Sunday, I’m back from San Jose and spring training starts about in a little more than a month. That means it’s time for me to take up defense of the Pirates that can do no research and complain about them. This time it’s the New York Daily News and their grupmy columnist, Bill Madden. Madden hasn’t liked the Pirates since Mazeroski got elected into the hall of fame by the veteran’s committee many years ago. This is mainly because he is a good friend of Yogi Berra and Maz caused the Yankees not to win a world series.
But back to the present. Madden seems to be of the opinion that MLB will be cracking down on the Pirates to spend more money on the major league roster. His logic is that since the Marlins were told to spend more money the Pirates will be forced to do the same.
That’s all well and good but if he had bothered to read any of the excellent work that Post Gazette Pirates’ beat writer Dejan Kovacevic. This past week he reported from sources outside of the Pirates organization that they were not going to be a target. This is something that he was also told by the commissioner of Major League Baseball. (Dejan also has a nice take down of Madden’s article, citing the real 2009 salary of the Pirates).
Yeah, we’ve sucked for 17 years and are a laughing stock for most of the league and press. But having fools like Madden not even bothering doing any research into the situation is just lazy journalism.
It’s bad enough that there are fans who feel that if we just spend more money we’d have won a world series by now. That is just not the case.