Email Fraud

I don’t know if that is a real crime but I just got an email that smacks of the Nigerian 419 Scam.  I replied to it, I hope to hear from Dr. Terry Williams soon reguarding my prize.  Here is the text:

OXFAM INTERNATIONAL
Oxfam House, John Smith Drive,
Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2JY.,
United Kingdom.
Date: 21th July, 2008.

Dear Funds Beneficiary

This is to notify you that you have been officially chosen by the Board of
Trustees of the Oxfam GB (NGO UK) as one of the final recipients of a Cash
Grant/Donation for Economic Growth and a Poverty  Alleviation Scheme through
your email.
Oxfam GB (U.K.), a Multi-Million Pounds NGO group, was established with the
objective of Human Growth, Poverty Alleviation,Educational and Community
Development around the world. In line with the 61st anniversary program,
Oxfam
in conjunction with the European Council is giving out Twenty-Five
Million,Five
Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling as specific Donations/Grants to 10 lucky
International recipients worldwide in different categories for their
Business
and Social Development.

These funds are freely given for your Business,Economic and Educational
Development, as well as the enhancement of the overall standard of living of
the less previledged people in your region.
It will interest you to know that your email was selected from your
country’s
chambers of commerce,due to an internet random selection and you have been
confirmed as one of the lucky recipients of this year’s donation programme.
You are also entitled to the sum of Two Million,Five Hundred and Fifty
Thousand  Pounds Sterling(2,550,000.00 GBP) as charity donations/aid
from the
Oxfam GB (UK) International donation scheme.

Further information on the processing and disbursement of your grant
entitlements, alongside the provision of your qualification documentations,
will be dislosed to you by the National Secretary of the foundation, Dr.
Terry
Williams.
Please contact him with your Qualification Number [OXG /101/231/BDB]
as soon as
possible.

Dr. Terry Williams
Tel: +44 704 578 1442.
Email: oxfamgb.intl47@googlemail.com
Oxfam-GB, United kingdom.

Signed:
Sir. William Boykin
Programme Manager.
?xfam-GB

I hope he gets back to me, I would like to know if he is in England or Africa.

Obama and Racists

This is sort of funny sort of deep.

Racists for Obama?

Included is this gem:

it’s perfectly possible to hold a negative view of at least one aspect of African-Americans and yet simultaneously prefer Obama, racial feelings are not as cut and dried — not as black and white — as people often say.”

Onion or Real

The Onion is a humor news paper and it does it’s job well.  I read it and am consistently impressed.  I write here and I try to string ideas together coherently, sometimes I do.  I write for Fact Checked, and sometimes I’m funny, never as funny as the Onion, I don’t think.

But sometimes I find an article in a serious newspaper (note I didn’t say real) that feels like it would be at home in the Onion, or I would be proud to have thought of it an put it on Fact Checked.  Politico delivered such a headline just today.

Joe not a licensed plumber

This will only make sense if you watched the last Presidential debate.

Out With the Old

This is across the street from the Cornerstone office.  Illinois State University is going to build a student recreation center on this site.  This building was once a dorm, now upperclassmen are forced to live off campus and only freshmen are required to live in the dorms, I think.

The University should have had housing built before they tore it down, but now we have a taxing number of people all hunting for apartments.  I should be thankful because the tight apartment market pushed us towards a house, but still.