I’m noticing that a certain self-made computer technician, audio book freak, theologian,  and ipod winner has been by far the most frequent commenter on my posts. (or he the only one?) Anyway, mega props to you, Mr. Mike Fisher. Its hard for me to image someone would stoop to such depths as to post a comment on my blog. If I was rich, I might offer you a prize. 
Happy New Year!
This is an excerpt of an email I just got. It came just in time, as I was in need of some extra cash.Â
DEARÂ ,
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MICROSOFT CORPORATIONÂ MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE AND POWER LOTTO ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY CONDUCTED IN UNITED KINGDOM BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 1st,JULY 2007.
YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO JULYÂ MSWLL. WITH SERIAL NUMBER S/M-00168 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 987-13-965-37-1-20-83, AND CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE FIRST LOTTERY CATEGORY. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR LUMP SUMS OF
$1,000,000.00 (USD ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE REF NO: MSW-L/500-36937 THIS IS FROM TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF $ 25,000.000.00 USD, SHARED AMONG THE TWENTY-FIVE (25) LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY.
ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE WEBSITES ESPECIALLY YAHOO MAIL THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 21,000 NAMES, 30,000 NAMES FROM EACH CONTINENT (CANADA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATE, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND OCEANIA, AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL “E-MAIL” PROMOTIONS PROGRAM, WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY FOR OUR PROMINENT INTERNET USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF INTERNET AND COMPUTER
WORLDWIDE.Â
YOUR FUND (CERTIFIED CHEQUE) HAS BEEN INSURED WITH YOUR REF NO:MSW-L200-26937 AND WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY BY OUR PAYING CENTER.CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT IN CHARGE OF YOUR ZONE PLEASE Address your mail to (Mrs. Linda K. Weston). YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS SHOULD BE USED IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER, PLEASE NOTE THAT, YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER VIA EMAIL ONLY AS WE ARE PROMOTING THE USE OF E-MAIL (INTERNET). ALSO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TOÂ CONFIRM YOUR WINNINGS AND GOVERNMENT TAX PAYMENT THAT IS INVOLVE, AS SHE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE.
AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL YOU ARE TO QUOTE THIS SECURITY CODE MSW/RIL/XX07 TO YOUR CLAIMING AGENT. THIS IS TO PREVENT SCAM .
PRIZE CLAIM
Mrs. Linda K. Weston
Grocery chain Supervalu Inc. earlier this year was conned into depositing more than $10 million into two fraudulent bank accounts before it discovered the ruse.
Its idiots people like that who keep the spammers in business.
Dear Good Friend,
I am much delighted and privileged to Contact you again. It takes faith, courage and fear of God to remember old friends and show Gratification for the time shred together in the past irrespective of the circumstances that punctuated our intension to actualize things.
I take this liberty to inform you that the transaction we were pursing together has finally worked out by God’s infinite mercy and favour.I decided to contact you to let you share from the good news and help me in thanking God for the abundance grace and favour that are flowing moving all over me.
I am happy to inform you that I am in Luxemburg for Numerous business negotiations and establishment. Iarrived on 25th of last where I am under going intensive Property and Capital investment project with the foreign firm that helped me in realizing this transaction.I have raised a duly signed and seal Certifies International Bank Cheque, to the tune of USD$950,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) only in your name as COMPENSATION to your dedication, humanity and contribution in the past.You are required to contact my account manager Rev kufor adams.
Email:rev_kuforadams@excite.com,He will advise you further about the shipment of the CIBC to your Residence or Office Address.
Sincerely Yours,
Rtd Captain Roland Johnson,
For those of you who fell for didn’t understand my last post, that was a SPAM email I had received. 
Hello Beloved
My name is Mrs.Iris Wells I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to charity through you.
You may be wondering why I chose you. But someone has to be chosen.
I am 59 years old and was diagnosed for cancer about 2years ago,immediately after the death of my husband who had left me everything he worked for.I have been touched by the lord to donatefrom what I have inherited from my late husband tocharity through you for the good work of humanity,rather than allow my relatives to use my
husband’s hard earned funds inappropriately.
I have asked the lord to forgive me all my sins and I believe he has,because He is merciful. I will be going in for an operation,and I pray that I survive the operation.
I have decided to Willing/Donate the sum of (TEN Million THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)to charity through you for the good work of the lord,and to help the motherless,less privileged and also for the assistance of the widows. At the moment I
cannot take any telephone calls, due to the fact that my relatives are around me and I have been restricted by my doctor from taking telephone calls because I
deserve all the rest I can get.
Presently,I have informed my lawyer about my decision in WILLING this fund to charity through you. I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you
abundantly, and please use the funds well and always
extend the good work to others.
If you are interested to be bless, also willing to bless other’s too,I will inform my Family Lawyer so that he can arrange the release of the funds to you. I know i have never met you but my mind tells me to do this and I hope you are sincerely.I will pay you 30%
of this money if you will assist me because I am now too weak and frigile to do things myself because of my cancer.
NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in
this matter until the task is accomplished,as I don’t
want anything that will Jeopardize my last wish, due
to the fact that I do not want relatives or family
members standing in the way of my last wish.
for security reason: kindly reply to this email address below: (irisproject45@yahoo.com.hk)
Love,
From Mrs Iris Wells
Reply to this email: irisproject45@yahoo.com.hk
I just noticed today that Spam Karma has caught 8000 spams. I’m not sure what is going on, but I’ve got thousands of spam in the last several days. Its crazy.
E-mail spam, blog spam, forum spam…. aaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh.. would you spammers just bug off? No. I am not clicking on your links, so why waste your time spamming? I’ve been suspicious for a while now that spam is on the rise, and I just discovered this blog spam stats page by Akismet that confirms it. 93% of all comments are spam!! yikes.
Spam today: 2,729,513
Ham* today: 124,140
93% of all comments are spam
*Ham is what Akismet calls a non-spam message.
I remember when I would get an email everytime I would get a comment on this Blog, and then I would have to approve it, disapprove it, or mark it as spam. I started to get a bunch of spam, and it was a real pain to moderate all the comments. But then I discovered this wonderful plugin called Spam Karma 2. Ahhh… it’s amazing!! 579 Spams eaten and counting… You poor spammers, why do you even try?
