Day: October 10, 2003

From my in-box this morning:

I am Chamberline Ozobia (Esq.), a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr. Fredrick Coppersmith, a national of your country, who is an oil merchant in Nigeria.

I realize these Nigerian finance spams don’t have to be smart to succeed — if just one in a million people send them money, they’re ahead of the game — but isn’t it kind of stupid to use the name of the person to whom you’re writing? After all, last I checked, I wasn’t an oil merchant in Nigeria. (And they misspelled my name.)