Unexpected Start
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 11:59
I figured I've got an opinion, a strong one at that, I play games, I design games, why not talk about games. So I created this blog with games in mind. Within seconds of making the blog I got this email.
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL FOUNDATION (NGO).
AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS
BENEFICIARY “A”
Dear Funds Beneficiary
This is to notify you that you have been officially chosen by the Board of
Trustees of the Royal dutch Shell Foundation International (N.G.O. NETHERLANDS)
as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for Economic Growth and
a Poverty Alleviation Scheme through your email.
It will interest you to know that your email address was selected from your
country's chambers of commerce,due to an internet random selection and you have
been confirmed as one of the lucky recipients of this year's donation programme.
You are also entitled to the sum of $1,500,000.00 Dollars (One Million, Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars) as charity donations/aid from the Royal dutch Shell
Foundation (NETHERLANDS) International donation scheme.
Further information on the processing and disbursement of your grant
entitlements, along side the provision of your qualification documentations,
will be dislosed to you by the National Secretary of the foundation, Dr. Richard
George
Please contact him with your Qualification Number [MSI /108/739/KDK] (Send your
Full Names:
Address:
Age:
Occupation:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
as soon as possible.
Dr. Richard George
Tel:+31 645 185 437
fax :+31 847 260 559
Email: contact8583@aim.com
Royal dutch Shell Foundation International, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell
NETHERLANDS
Signed:
Mr. Werner kurt Mijller
Programme Manager.
Royal dutch Shell Foundation International
ADDRESS- Geldershoofd No21, post code 1103 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS
How many things are wrong with this?
Lets see, 1st my name is not A second if my small company can afford @furrymoon.com for an email
then I would have to assume "Royal dutch Shell Foundation International" could atleast do better than Email: contact8583@aim.comI mean seriously is @royaldsfi.com already taken? $3 and you might actually fool more people.
Lets get away from the "tech" stuff because not everyone reads full headers for email and even less use linux. Is this a Grant or a Donation? Is it a combination? O for poverty, while it's true I'm not rich and funding would be helpful to kick start FMC I'm not exactly going to the homeless shelter to check my email.
1.5 million dollars! for me? Why, when $50,000 would be more then enough to cover the avg American for 1-2 years and you could help 30 people just like me! O yeah, your not targeting the poor your targeting the greedy and the desperate shame on you.
I love how you now call is Donations and aid money ... What! No Grant! What a rip off. Hey wait why are you spelling out the amounts in bold? Why are you screaming at me your from the "NETHERLANDS" Huh? You want my names? Like my real name plus my online names? Fax, I'm rich enough to have a fax # but poor enough to have to get 1.5 million in Grant/Donation/Aid from Netherlands? Wha you wanna know my job? Wait I have a job? Then why are you giving me aid if I have a Job and a Fax?
Lets rate this scam.
Consistency - 1 of 10
Personalization 1 of 10
Beleivability 2 of 10
Tech Smart 1 of 10
Entertainment 6 of 10
20% of what is take to be perfect. Long ways to go there.
In game related news I've been playing World of Warcraft while typing this up. I'm doing the Argent Tourney Dailies. Threatidel, jousting, thawning a dryad, killing dwarves for a brooch, fishing in blood, and making sewer stew. Hoving in Swift Flight Form like an idiot toggling AFK as I switch to typing this. My guild wants me to heal HH and the H Daily at the same time. I go with the H Daily and lazily await a summon to Heroic OCC. Sklon NEHunter, Castric DraDK Kheva HPally Lunamariaa HRog and me Pinkkitsune NEDru. We'll win, it's only a Heroic, now that Blizz fixed the Finnal boss encount to not be niegh imposible to all but the most skilled gamers on a vent server.
I'm hoping that I don't have to explain the boss fight to anyone myself because I'm no good at typing out boss tactics. Verbally I could tell shout out orders in real time and keep a group on the ball, but typing before a complex combat is just not fun and not something I'm good at, well I just got my summon time to go.
EDIT: This post was modified in Formating to fit the margins of the page.
