November 14, 2005

Spam that makes you think

Received today:

DEAR (My name here),

I AM BARRISTER WILLIAMS IBE (SAN), A SOLICITOR AT LAW. I AM THE PERSONAL ATTORNEY TO MR JIM (My name here), AN EXPERTRIATES HERE AND A NATIONAL OF YOUR COUNTRY. HE WAS ALSO A CONTRACTOR WITH ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT PROSTATES, WHO EXECUTED A CONTRACT WITH THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC) HERE IN NIGERIA BEFORE HIS DEATH, HERE IN AFTER, SHALL BE REFERRED TO AS MY CLIENT.

A government prostate? Sounds really painful.

Posted by Linkmeister at November 14, 2005 01:21 PM | TrackBack
Comments

PROSTATES???
hahaha!!!

What the hell were they trying to say there?

Posted by: Chloe at November 14, 2005 07:48 PM

I've been puzzling over that since I got it. I can't make any governmental agency name fit. Ministry? Nah. Cabinet position? Nope. Beats me. ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at November 14, 2005 07:50 PM

Will it never end?

THE USE OF CAPS!!!!11! IT MUST STOP!1!!!!

Posted by: s at November 14, 2005 09:04 PM

HAHAHA!!1!!11!!! ;)

Yeah, I've been trying to think of something that would fit, that it was a misspelling of, or a similar word in English, that they used that in place of...

I think I heard "pro-council" or something like that, referring to a government official on some alien planet on Star Trek once. haha.

Posted by: Chloe at November 15, 2005 08:27 AM

you all seem to be missing the most important fact here - you are gone??? "MR JIM (My name here)" although we all know your name is not JIM My name here - how could they have gotten THAT wrong, too????

RIP Jim My name here, whoever you are.

sigh! prostate??? sigh!
>..

Posted by: barbara at November 15, 2005 11:53 AM

Chloe, that would be "proconsul," as in Paul Bremer in Iraq (and numerous Romans in outlying places like Gaul).

What's an "expertriate?" Somebody who knows everything about his home country, or about the country in which he currently resides?

Moosie, it did manage to get my correct last name into those holes.

Posted by: Linkmeister at November 15, 2005 12:09 PM

Ah, okay proconsul... (I wasn't reading the star trek episode transcript after all - I'm not THAT geeky)...

We don't have any of those. ;)
So I thought maybe there was some other... but I still haven't thought of any titles that resemble PROSTATE.

I didn't notice that "expertriate" before... funny!

Posted by: Chloe at November 17, 2005 12:45 AM