You get them...I get hundreds daily. Right now when I find that a British Bank can't make a LEGAL transfer to a French Bank, and that the French Bank needs up to a MONTH to process a UK cheque,      a renowned American insurance company needs something that the American Tax services almost refuse to give before they pay up legally demanded sums of money, this thing made me laugh loudly...I haven't quite lost my sense of humour totally! Wonder if this guy would let me into his secret....? ******* Dear Friend, Greetings to you and your family, I am Mr. Kenneth Munakah the Auditing and Accounting section manager in Banque Regionale de Solidarit Burkina Faso (BRS BANK). I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($39.5)million to your account within 10 or 14 banking days. This money has been dormant for years in our Bank with out claim. So this is the reason why i contacted you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased...

Image via Wikipedia Photos, slideshows , videos - yes!  SPAM - NO..!  I receive, on average, a couple of things from mainly well meaning people every week. Generally they are diapos, slideshows, images, videos etc..  which they found interesting, and wanted me to see as well. Very kind of them, and often I AM pleased to look at them. What I am generally not too pleased about is to find my e-mail address on the top of these messages, along with sometimes HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of other poor people's addresses. These are those mails entitled "RE"-" FW "-RE-FW etc.......... It's a quick way of sending the thing concerned, but what the senders tend not to realise is that this comes from a "scam" and leads to a " spam "! These things are placed on the net to get you to send them to others. They even ask you to do so - often! What happens is - you send it to all your friends/colleagues etc., they send it to all their mates and oth...

Image via CrunchBase Did you know that G-mail from Google has a super " anti-spam " system installed automatically, and it's rare I receive spam in my in box. Even when I receive it in my Spam box, it is covered top and bottom with red warning messages from Google saying - "this message may not be from whom it says it is - don't ever give details to anyone etc..". This "spam" DID arrive in my inbox, and may be a change in "tactical warfare" from the "Spammer Warlords" - you know - those guys sitting in shanty tin cabins, dressed up to the nines, surrounded by hungry, dirty little boys, who idolise them, tapping away on their keypads, and sending stupid messages to all and sundry! The AMAZING thing is - it still seems to work! There are, it seems still people out there greedy enough to think that a quick few thousands can be had! Well - they CAN'T!  Their "idolisers" are impressed because their hero can appar...