Wow! Is TPP a lucky duck or what? I mean nearly 2.5 million dollars as a "random choice"? Here's the confidential, high importance message.
Hi,
My name is Jeffrey Skoll,
a philanthropist and the founder of one of the largest private foundations in
the world. I believe strongly in ‘giving while living.’ I had one idea that
never changed in my mind — that you should use your wealth to help people and I
have decided to secretly give USD2.498 Million to a randomly selected
individual. On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as the
individual. Your email address was chosen online while searching at random.
Kindly get back to me at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address
is valid.
Visit the web page to know more about me: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/meet-the-canadian-billionaire-whos-giving-it-all-away/article4209888/
or you can read an article of me on Wikipedia.
Regards,
Jeffrey
Skoll
You know if perhaps Jeff had mentioned giving TPP $$$ for botanical education or something like that it might have been a better gimmick. And using a real person's identity was interesting, but not all that creative, even if TPP had never heard of him, but really, a famous guy using a university email address? And searches are not random by definition. Does someone need tuition or perhaps you are working on a creative writing degree and criminal record package. Sorry kid, you're trying to scam a professional skeptic. Pretending to be someone real is creative, better than an Ethiopian prince, but it's not believable to have been singled out at random, although the scam was probably randomly targeted. Hi, is a bit too informal, but better than Hey! But no name? Now just to help your career out and out of the holiday spirirt your email was forwarded to your university's security people, which was easy enough to find on line, so have a nice holiday break. It'll give them time to track down the phony email account you created at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. The jig (slang) is up, but unfortunately what your next move would have been remains unknown, and we so wanted to know as this just left us hanging in suspense.
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