A Love Of Labour
November 27th, 2007Yesterday, The Times reported that the Labour party had taken donations which had come to them via. a proxy to conceal the donor’s true identity. Aside from containing this fantastic sentence:
Donations made via third parties are illegal unless the person behind the donation is also declared or there is a “reasonable excuse”.
…it also explained this email I received in March but had always assumed was a scam:
DEAR BELOVED URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
I am DAVID ABRAHAMS, an impotant businessman here in LAGOS, NIGERIA and I have sum of $600,00 USD (SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLAR) which I want to donate to THE LABOUR PARTY. I would like a trust worthy partner to act as a donor. The money will be transfered into your account and then into THE LABOUR PARTY. The fund will be split as follows: 15% for your expenses, 10% for contingency/emergency and 75% for THE LABOUR PARTY.
Yours in Christ,
David Abrahams
LAGOS NIGERIA
No, really. I wouldn’t lie to you.
Also I read that Santa has lost the disks on which he stored the lists of 25 million naughty and nice children. So, er, let’s hope that doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.
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November 28th, 2007 at 13:16
My favourite part is that he’s an “impotant businessman”. Did he admit to that to get your sympathy? xxx
November 28th, 2007 at 13:20
I can only presume so.
Gosh, it’s almost as if I added a few typing errors to make it more realistic, isn’t it? But of course, I didn’t need to as it is clearly a 100% genuine email which I really received.
November 28th, 2007 at 16:37
You and your crazy sense of humour.
It would be brilliant if this could somehow be bumped up Google’s ratings, so that when people searched for David Abrahams, this is what they found. Or was that your intention all along?
December 4th, 2007 at 20:45
I have a lot of fun with the 419 scammers. In my reply to them I mention that I am a Casting Director for a mjaor film company and I say that we are looking for people from your country to provide voice work for an animated film. I ask them to send me via email a voice sample telling me about themselves and some photos. I mention that upon acceptance they can make up to $2000.00. I have had many people get very inquisitive about my proposal and some have, in fact, sent me voice samples and photos. My how there heart breaks when I break the bad news and tell them they have not been accepted. And as far as their proposal goes, I simply reply that I do not have time to pursue it.
Great fun! That’ll teach those guys!
December 4th, 2007 at 20:47
That’s brilliant. Are you uploading those anywhere? I’d like to see/hear them.