It's April Fool's day - and we're the fools!

Just those of us that buy or eat food. I've been meaning to post on THIS subject for a while now but kept forgetting, Jason reminded me. As I've said, been noticing this for some time now, especially in the last six months or so. Bags of chips only half full (the rest air), canned goods slowly shrinking on the grocery shelves and my favorite example crackers. All of my life saltine crackers have been exactly the same, crisp bleached starch salty SQUAREs. A few weeks ago I bought a box (store brand) that were rectangular. The packaging was exactly the same but to save money now a quarter inch on one of the sides was missing. You have to constantly watch them, they are sneaky!

Assault Lawyers and other dangers of the internetz

I have received a wide array of interesting emails this week, much more than usual. My name must have found its way to someone's sucker list. Most are the standard fare - There is a lawyer on a "quest to find a reliable trustee to manage the assets/estate of my late client valued at only US$11,000,000.00 (Eleven Million United States Dollars)" Guess what? I'm that lucky fellow.

Then there was Mr. Dom May, he is a "Diplomat" and is "mandated to deliver your inheritance to you in your country of residence. The funds total US$7.5 Million and you were made the beneficiary of these funds by a benefactor whose details will be revealed to you after handing over the funds to you in accordance with the Agreement I signed with the benefactor when he enlisted my assistance in delivering the funds to you." If you say so...

But the best was an exciting job offer from Alex Dascomb in California, it reads...

"Dear,

I am Alex ....a man of 40 years of age...I'm an Assault Lawyer ...i am looking for an honest person who can work for me... hopefully be my Personal Assistant...so the motive of your job with me is to be collecting funds from my client on my behalf, I wish i could do this alone but due to the nature of my work. I do travel a lot ...i even travel out of the state too if required... also i will like to let you know that i am from Hawthorne, California ...but your location never determine your work with me...all you need to do is to be online almost everyday so that i will be updating you on what to do. Like i said before you will be collect funds from my client on my behalf in case i am out of state and also the payment will be via Pay pal or Checks ... so i will like to know which one you will prefer out of this....all you need to do is to be online to reply mails and also if you have a yahoo email address so that we can chat sometimes on yahoo messenger....and your wages will be 10% on each transaction and also i want you to send me your resumes and i will like you to mail me with the following information below soon....so i will wait to read from you soon if you are really interested to work for me.

Best Regards Alex..."

I'm not really sure what an "Assault Lawyer" is but I've got a feeling that if we sunk them all in the deepest part of the ocean, along with all the scumbag internet criminals with them, that the internet (and our world) would be a much, much better place.

Mrs. Tarina Qnsillano needs my help

This lady really needs my help. From reading my blog she could tell what an honest and trustworthy soul that I had, perhaps the only person in this entire world that she could trust her 21.5 million with...

"Hello My Dear Friend,

Please I got your contact Details from this site:blogger.com; Pleasures to write you after viewing your profile communication with you Little about me.I love sport, swimming,reading and singing.My favorite colour is blue and green.I love sea food, pizza, Chinese food, Arab food, Italian food ,spaghetti, America and other. I love plenty of salad too.Before I proceed further, please permit me to introduction myself to you. I am Mrs. Tarina Qnsillano. A complete citizen of Philippines, 42 years old living in the Philippines, widow to the late former minister of finance in Philippine who died on 21th of August 2006.

I inherited a total sum of $21.5 Million American dollars from my late husband, the money was concealed in a metallic trunk box and was deposited with a security and finance company in Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire, that was because I needed a maximum security/safety of my consignment and no body nor government organization can trace the where about of the money until I am ready and prepare to claim it. but the Secuerity company didn't know the real content of the box, because it was deposited as a family valuables.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country for onward lodgement your account for the purpose of future investment with your percentage of which we shall chat on soon. I will send you the Authorization Certificate to call them in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they gave me on the very day when the box of money was deposited under their company. I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you for quick conclusion of this business.

The percentage will be your reward for all your moral and financial assistance during the period of moving the money to your country.Please if you can assist me I will be very grateful. And repay you many times over,declaring your willingness to assist me in this venture. Waiting for a very quick response from you so that i can send you my photo to you to see me in my next reply as soon as i hear from you again. Have a nice time and remain blessed

Best Regards,

Mrs. Tarina Qnsillano,"

Just one of the many perils of posting your email address on the world wide web...

wilsonblogclassic® Originally posted Saturday, February 28, 2009

Miserable - Thieving - BastardsLast night at work I bought a Coke and got this little surprise back in my change. Someone had actually gone thru the trouble of grinding down a penny so that they could fool the vending machine into thinking it was a dime. Maybe I am naïve in the ways of the world but when I first saw this I just couldn't believe that someone would go thru this much effort to steal 9 cents. Yes, maybe I am that naïve...