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I thought these were supposed to come from Nigeria:
Dear Beloved,
My name is Mrs. Anika Sander from England, I am a dying woman who has
decided to donate what I have to charities through you. You may be
wondering why I chose you. But someone has to be chosen. I was diagnosed
for cancer about 2 years ago, after the death of my husband who had left me
everything he worked for.
I have been touched by the Lord to donate from what I have inherited from
my late husband to charity 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 in few weeks , and I pray that I survive the operation. I have
decided to Will/Donate the sum of 6,500,000.00 pounds (Six Million Five
hundred thousand pounds) to charities through you for the good work of the
Lord, and to help the motherless,less privileged and also for the
assistance of the widows.
Presently, I have informed my consultant 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 in carrying out this task, I
will inform my consultant of your contact, 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 act sincerely. I decided that 30% of this
money should be taken by you from the total sum upon the success release
of this fund, because I am now too weak and fragile to do things myself
because of my cancer. NB: You will be given the right to verify this
directly with the Bank where the fund was deposited.
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.
Regards
Mrs. Anika Sander
PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME, ADDRESS, TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER ON YOUR REPLY
FOR EASY AND IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION WITH MY CONSULTANT.
BTW, This font is created with the “tt” command, and I happen to be old enough to have actually used a TeleType machine. With a strip of paper that had a bunch of holes in it.
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Good morning dear readers! There is a contest starting today, 11 February, sponsored by SOB-Con 2008 and Plante Moran Financial Advisors (www.pmfa.com). Read to the end to find out how you can help.
A free registration to SOBCon08 in Chicago, from May 2-4 ($450 value)
Two nights hotel accommodations ($300 value)
Podium recognition by the SOBCon MC, Terry Starbucker!
(promotional value for your blog and business – priceless)
Let’s get to the rules, but first a quick word about our co-sponsor, Plante Moran Financial Advisors (www.pmfa.com).They’re a group of financial professionals that are all about “you”, just as it should be. In their own words,
“In saying “you” we encompass every aspect of you, such as your family, business, and personal interests into your investment strategy – today and into the future. You are our first priority and that is why our approach to your wealth management is as unique as you.”
Now this is a prize worth going after, and I want to win. You can help!
Follow these simple steps
If you are reading this at the Productivity in Context site, click this link to the SOB-Con 2008 official site. You will have done your part by creating a referral link, and I thank you.
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Please do not click from your reader or e-mail program!
If you click from the RSS Reader or e-mail client, I will not get credit for the referral. Thank you all in advance for helping me to get to SOB-Con 2008! Here is what some other folks are saying about it:
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Following links around the Internet is always fun, maybe not very productive, but it can be educational. I was reading about the Kindle from Amazon, and came across a terrific piece written over a decade ago:
This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).
(from “The Road To Tycho”, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096)
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her—but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do.
Well, Dive Into Mark spotted this too, and tied it together with a few other pieces and came up with this:
When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
There are five more sets of quotes that are a must read.
And after reading this, I started to get a vision in my head of what they must have been thinking over at Amazon when they were brainstorming the name “Kindle“.
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