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  1. Maybe this is why Obama has no paper trail. A lot of it looked like this until he became a confirm able American con man.

  2. TNT is a large firm, originating in courier and transport services (which it still does). Think of it as Australia’s version of Federal Express. While originally Australian, the firm is international, although it appears it may not have much penetration in the US market (US markets are usually very competitive and difficult to penetrate).

    Notwithstanding TNT is a legitimate firm, it think it’s safe to say your instincts regarding the legitimacy of the offer/advice are correct.

  3. This is a Nigerian 419 scam letter. I’ve seen lots of them, and this is just another variant on that theme. Bottom line: the only money here is the money the scammer wants from you.

  4. waltj: I’m well aware that it’s a Nigerian scam. I just think it’s a particularly humorous version in its details.

  5. You’re getting a bargain, Neo. Only $150.00?

    An email, similar to that comment, that I got last year wanted $250.00 as the “security keeping” fee.

    Alas, I didn’t have it then, so I had to kiss off $1,000,000.00 dollars. (I think I would have bought a Porsche, toured the country, and had all sorts of fun.)

    Such is life. 🙁

    ( I suppose it only needs a very tiny percentage of those fees to be actually paid for a scammer to make out pretty well. Sometimes, it really sucks to think what one could do if one had no concience at all.)

  6. It is fairly humorous. Most of them are, unintentionally so. I’m amazed that people still fall for them. And you’re right, Neo, $150 is much lower than the typical amount of $30,000 or so. Maybe hard times have hit the Nigerian scam industry as well.

  7. Yes, TNT Courier Services is a real company, but, in this day and age, I think that they should be having second thoughts about having a name that is equivalent to “Bomb Carrier” and a task of delivering “packages” from around the world.

  8. I also wonder who is still falling for these things. I used to have a patient who was utterly convinced she had won the Reader’s Digest sweepstakes one year. She was convinced that people couldn’t print that and send it to her if it weren’t true. Perhaps something like this is in play – people with a belief that there is some magical agency which protects us infallibly from such things, so those that get through must be legit.

    I would love to see the numbers on political affiliation on this. As I would on Leno’s “Jay Walking.”

  9. “I used to have a patient who was utterly convinced she had won the Reader’s Digest sweepstakes one year.”

    And I would bet you this a contest that she had never even entered in the first place.

    Some of these scams would almost (Hell; strike the “almost”!) have you believe that there are outfits just looking at random for people to give money away to.

    I truly believe that most children would have trouble swallowing that.

    What do you get when supposedly grown adults think that way?

    November 4, 2008.

    (Sorry; absolutely no way could I resist that one. 🙂

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