Answering spam emails:<\/p>\n
From: Carl Catlin <ccatlin[redacted]@yahoo.com><\/p>\n
To: [Me]<\/p>\n
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:56 PM<\/p>\n
Subject: Philippines Trip(Sad News)……..Carl Catlin<\/p>\n
Just hoping this email has reached you well, I’m sorry for this emergency and for not informing you about my urgent trip to Manila, Philippines but I just have to let you know my present predicament.<\/p>\n
Everything was fine until I was attacked on my way back to the hotel, I wasn’t hurt but I lost my money, bank cards, mobile phone and my bag in the course of this attack. Immediately contacted my bank in order to block my cards and also made a report at the nearest police station.<\/p>\n
I’ve been to the embassy and they are helping me with my documentation so i can fly out but I’m urgently in need of some money to pay for my hotel bills and my flight ticket home, will definitely REFUND as soon as back home .<\/p>\n
Kindly let me know if you would be able to help me out so I can forward you the details required for a wire transfer.<\/p>\n
Waiting to hear back from you..<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
Carl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My response:<\/p>\n
Carl,<\/p>\n
Bubbie! \u00a0Sorry to hear about your predicament.<\/p>\n
I’d love to help, since I just know you’re good for the money.<\/p>\n
Sorry to say, though, that we’re birds of a feather as always. \u00a0I, too, am in the Philippines, sightseeing near Manila, in the city of Las Pi\u00f1as. \u00a0And I, too, was waylaid by ruffians. \u00a0 Six of them.<\/p>\n
I killed the first five – two with my bare hands. \u00a0The six, I let go, as is – as you’re well aware, my old friend – my wont.<\/p>\n
As the sixth ran away, a Philipino policeman walked up to me to take the report. \u00a0As the sixth yegg ran toward the horizon, the policeman asked me if I was up for a wager; could I hit the blackguard?<\/p>\n