As I had mentioned in the comments to my previous entry, Brotherly SPAM, I decided to email my brother, a congregational rabbi, in the format of a Nigerian 419 scam email to humbly invite myself and my family to his place for the Passover holiday. Lucky for me, he found it while checking his SPAM folder and responded that we could come.
And then this afternoon he sent me an email saying “You inspired me.” And attached an email forward which was sent to the congregational email list this morning:
—–Original Message—–
From: Rabby Shiny’s Brother
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:07 AM
To: mailing-list@synagogue
Subject: Can you Assist?
—–Original Message—–
From: Prime Minister Haman [mailto:haman@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 8:48 AM // 14 Adar
To: u
Subject: Can you Assist?
Can you Assist?
Dear Sirs or Madams,
I am a 57 years old prime minister from PERSIA. I was accursed
Over issues relating to recompensing the Jewish the people for
Their devious nature, and sexual the harassment of the Queen the Esther
during a royal the party while king the Ahasuerus was being outside in royal
garden. Here in my country and all my properties, investment & personal
Bank accounts traced has been seized.
However, l am under house arrest with my wife Zeresh &
My ten sons now and they have prevented our friends,
relatives, including my lawyer from coming to see us
until they finish investigation. As things are
Presently, l may not regain my freedom too soon from
what i am seeing now.
This is where i need help, secretly, l have money;
TEN THOUSAND GOLD PIECES which i deposited with a reliable
finance institution in NIGERIA since 450 BCE,
in any case i have decided to seek for a
Partner abroad with whom i can trust to give the
deposit code & batch
Number to retrieve this money for me and use it to
buy shares for me.
I am ready to offer 10% of the total fund to any
interested partner for Him/her assistance.
All reply should come to my private Email Address: haman@aol.com
Can you help?
Prime Minister Haman
haman@aol.com
My brother rocks.
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Dude. He does. Between those 2 spam emails and Matt-Man’s pic of Jesus on the cross saying BRB, I laughed myself silly. BTW, I pimped your blog today and my pal Shiny talked about you too! Happy weekend!
Winter: Happy weekend to you as well! Who would have thought that LOL-Jesus and Purim spam humor could coexist together in harmony?
And I’m going to link to She-Shiny’s post. The saga continues…
That’s fantastic! I can already foresee my winter holiday cards this year.
Othurme: I spoke with my brother last night, and he said that the email was a big hit! Although he did get some emails back from congregants who didn’t really get it — warning him that he shouldn’t forward these emails because "often you don’t know if the people are really who they say they are, and a lot of the time it’s a scam." That being said, let me know how it works out!
By the way — my next radio show (which I mention in a post above this one) will be done with fake British accents and using fake proficiency in British vocabulary, a la the comments you made on Jester’s blog about that wretched Bloat guy. Thought you might be interested…
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