My Life With IT

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I’m not sure what to make of this but it smells like what Felix had received before. I received this in my private message in Yebber. I thought something might be interesting and boy oh boy, I’m the trusted recipient to help some guy named Serge who is yet of age 24 to help him keep the money. Does this count as a hoax or spam or abuse?

Dear Friend,

I came to you because i saw your profile and contact in this site and believe that your names has planted you in the centre of relevance in my life.

Before I go further I will like to introduce myself to you. I am Serge Micheal Konan, 17 years of age, the only child of my parents, Dr. and Mrs. Arnaud Leonard Konan. My parents were Natives of Cote d’Ivoire before they migrated to the United States where I was born and we lived at No 215 West Wieuca Road Northeast Atlanta, Georgia USA and I attended the famous Frederick Douglass High School, 225 Hamilton E.Holmes Drive, N.W. Atlanta, GA 30318, Georgia USA, but when my mother fell sick and died June 2004, My father became weak every now and fall sick often, i believe it was the shock of my mum’s sudden death that deteriorated his health. He got retired from his office, Fidelity National Insurance Company at No 200 Galleria Parkway Southeast Atlanta GA 30339 USA October 2005.

Then December 2005 my father called me and told that he doesn’t want to die in a foreign land. That he has made so much money, he felt the best thing for him to do now is for us to relocate back to his home country of Cote d’Ivoire so that he can set up his own Insurance company and give job opportunities to his people and he also told me that he wanted me to learn about his people and their culture. On the 14 of December 2005 we returned back to Cote d’Ivoire, On our arrival, my Dad deposited all the money we came with that we want to use to set up the company in a security company as family valuables because according to him, he doesn’t want anybody to know anything about the money till he has settled and ready to use it, for the purpose of which he suffered to bring the money down home. Then after some time my dad started to look for properties to buy
to use for an office, in several occasions i went out with him to inspect for this purpose.

But unfortunately On the 6th of February 2006 My father died, but before his death he brought out all the documents he used in depositing the money with the security company, name and address of the security company i will also give you later, and gave them to me. So four months after the burial of my father, i approached the company and asked for the release of my deposit to me as the only child of Dr. and Mrs.Arnaud Leonard Konan but to my surprise the company refused my request. I have been to the company time without number and all they said was that the only way that they can release the deposit to me will be when i am 24yrs old or if i can find a guardian that will stand for me. Please i would like to ask for your help here, i want you to please accept my humble request that you stand as my guardian and i then introduce you to the company and you receive the deposit for me.

My situation here is so unbearable that i cant really wait to possess this money.

This is the true situation of things as it stands now. Please, take your time, go through this mail and let me know the best way you feel you can help me. On my email: smkonan225@yahoo.fr

Yours sincerely
Serge

Seriously though, I can’t see why on earth I am chosen to be the one to look after his money when he doesn’t even know me. And it’s been 2 years since his daddy passed away. Oh, I’m so touched that I’m the centre of relevance in his life.

Nowadays, you get invitations to events the electronic way. Via email, e-cards or Facebook. I have used Evite and Ecircles (now defunct). The most commonly used way I have used is email. I just select the names and hit send. Not that it isn’t good. Just that it isn’t that well collaborated in a way whereby I can easily list down who are the attendants.

Facebook is quite popular and I have just received an invitation to attend a dinner with my ex-colleagues. It’s quite easy to use too. Just a reply if you will be attending, maybe or just a no. Easy peasy. With Evite, you select the event type, picture if you like, the list of people you have imported, some polling on the attendance and that’s it. It really depends on your preferred method of invitation.

I have even received an e-card for attending a ROM. So, it’s nothing new, it’s just a way to inform my friends that I am inviting them to some event. Saves paper and environment. Wait, they still have to switch on the electricity. Darn it.

I often cringe when I see an email whereby all the email addresses are in the To and CC list. This is because when the email is traveling through the hops and servers, they leave a digital mark that can be culled by robots which are collecting email addresses and that’s when I start receiving spam emails.

This is especially more important if a company provides newsletters via emails, it’s supposed to use BCC instead. This reduces the robot’s chances of retrieving the valid emails and I don’t get spammed and neither will I need to write an email to inform them that it’s violating the privacies of the subscribers.

I have friends who forward emails using the To list. I use this only if it were to gather discussion and feedback on the dates availability. How I wished that all of them have Yahoo accounts so that we can just dump everything into the Yahoo Groups. However, not all of them have and some don’t want to create new accounts. So, I’m stuck with emails.

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After so many months of hard work by reading the emails, I have managed to cash out S$10 from EmailCashPro only see S$0.84 of transfer fees to be given to Paypal. That amount may small or paltry to some but I feel cheated.

However, at least I have been given this sum that will elevate my domain and hosting fees slightly.

Apparently, men need help. I didn’t know that they need sperm pills or some sort of tools to help them perform better. Some emails I’ve received even have ways to ensure that the stuff they promote, work. Oh boy. Thanks. I didn’t know that I needed help with such things. The last I checked, I didn’t have a sudden growth of anything odd down south.

Perhaps you spammers kindly check that you are truly sending your emails to the correct people who truly need such products? You don’t want anyone to hit you with the meat, do you? You would want emails that are relevant, wouldn’t you?

Get a life! Oh wait, you are a spam-bot. You’re covered with spam that used to be alive.

Receiving unwanted advertisements on your mobile? I had and still having. ^$&*# I have even received calls from companies representing credit card banks like Citibank, UOB, HSBC and OCBC. I wonder how the heck they managed to cull my personal information. I wonder why they are allowed to do that. And I wonder why the heck do contest sponsors allow the very private information to be sold or given to third parties.

Reading today’s Digital Life on the culling of private information set me thinking. The question asked was “What if you receive an SMS recommending coffee at the very place you are at just as you are contemplating what to drink?” Have our systems become so good and integrated that our information are no longer within our control on how it is being flowed? Why is that we can’t sue them for abusing the privilege to get the information? Do banks even protect our account privacies in the first place?

If banks can freeze the accounts because of a warrant to freeze them without any verification even if the warrant is valid, then why is my money with them for their investments? Why am I still using the very bank that will betray my trust with it? Because it’s the only place I can earn some interest stably, no wait, not stably, they fluctuate with the times. Oh, because it’s the only place where my money will increase cents by cents very year. This reasoning of mine seems flawed somehow.

Putting your name online means you are search-able. Do a Google or Yahoo with your name and you could be found in the 1st 10 results. I know I can be found too. Scary. Putting your real name online means you can easily be framed like getting your reputation dragged into something you didn’t know existed

Facebook provides SMS and it’s being sued by a woman because she received unauthorised messages. Now, can I sue my service provider for being unable to stop unwanted SMS? No. Because I don’t have the cash for it. And, they still haven’t come out with a way to prevent unwanted SMS except to force them to put ADV in front of the message and in emails. Sheesh.

Technology was to help us not to create problems like unwanted emails and SMS.