Dear Wally:
How would you handle an email from Nigerian Royalty asking you to receive a cashier’s check for $20,000,000 that represents excess proceeds from a quiet little diamond mining operation the royal prince doesn’t want his greedy family to know about? Is this on the up and up? All they want in exchange for their $20 mil is $2,500 from me. That’s a heck of profit…
Signed Hopeful in High Falls
Dear Hopeful:
First, you should be flattered! Very flattered. Obviously they did their homework and realize that you (more than any other of the 280 million in America) have the business acumen and discretion to handle this extremely delicate matter! The Nigerian Prince’s ability to weave through the charlatans and filter out the flakes, to finally arrive at your electronic inbox, should tell you that these guys are serious. By my calculations, you’ll have netted well over $21.9 million in gravy! Not bad for a few hours monkeying around on the internet and just being yourself. As for the transaction itself, tell them you’ll stuff the $2,500 cash in a headless Britney Spears doll which you’ll leave in the front seat of an unlocked, white, mid 80’s Toyota at the Emanual’s parking lot sometime in Sept (after their cashier’s check ‘clears’). Then call me up and let’s go on a spending spree!
-Wally
ps: don’t worry about anyone snatching the BS doll. I think it’s safe these days.
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