From: Dr. Abit Suliman

Mbabane Swaziland

 

Hello,

I am Dr. Abit Suliman I served in the Libyan presidency on defence and my status put me in a position of responsibility and authority.

I am interested in doing business with you as I am in possession of some funds, US$ 55Million (FIFTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS), which I wish to invest as a matter of urgency through you.

If you are conversant with public issues, Libya recently went through terrible strive/civil war. I was mandated as Head of Delegation to South Africa to purchase arms/ ammunitions by the government of Libya (Gadahfi Government).

I had already finished negotiations and had received this said sum and was in Swaziland when I learnt of the death of General Moammar Gadahfi. I immediately stopped all negotiations on the arms purchase and moved the funds to a suspense account with the help of a banker here in Swaziland.

Presently, the existence of this money is unknown to any body and is backed up by a Certificate of Clean fund issued by the Swaziland Government absolving the money from drugs or money laundering activities. I find it necessary to invest this money offshore in viable business ventures through your company or your personal guidance and assistance.

I have worked on the whole arrangement and only expect your favourable response to put the machinery into motion that will further our mutual personal and business relationship.

You may contact me on the phone number provided below so I can give details of the whole arrangement I have made which are absolutely smooth and will ensure no delays once we work hand in hand with each other.

I await your esteemed response while counting on your sense of confidentiality, as it is my desire for this to be done as directly as possible.

I will offer you 20% of the total money and the remaining 80% will be for my investment in your country. Please, kindly contact me on telephone number [phone number removed] or

Email:  [emailed removed]

This is a deal and I would appreciate if we keep it that way, in any case you are not interested then do not bother responding, just ignore the conversation.

Thanks for your time.

Regards

Dr. Abit Suliman

I removed the number and email address from the original message, of course. If you’re unfamiliar with a Nigerian scam, also known as advance-fee fraud, Wikipedia has a decent explanation. Essentially it’s a confidence scam. Usually it deals with someone who has access to a large sum of money but can’t move it without the help of an outsider. The victim is lured into the scam with the promise of a lucrative return for money that is fronted by the victim. The reality is that the victim is constantly assured that the deal is about to finalize but it continues to encounter problems that necessitate further funding by the victim.

You would think people would see through the scam but they don’t. Just over three years ago, a woman in Portland, OR lost $400,000 while being caught up in one scam, and would have continued if the authorities hadn’t stopped her first.

However, I was able to maintain some productivity on my own time. Some accomplishments of 2011 have been:

• Riding my motorcycle almost exclusively throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall seasons.
• Rode the bike down from Cleveland to Columbus and back twice, with a trip to Toledo and back once.
• Took part in a few Patriot Guard Rider missions for the first time this year.
• Finished reading 12 books this year. That is about average for me.
• Managed to maintain my weight this year mostly through the (not-so-)strict elimination of sugar infused soft drinks.
• Recycled a lot of plastic containers that were previously just being thrown out (IE: soda pop, condiments, retail packaging.)

From a technical standpoint:

• My Thinkpad T61p died after a few short years. I could have probably fixed it but with my job being the way it was this year, I decided to just buy a new laptop. I went with an Aspire Ethos, replaced the stock drive with a Samsung SSD, tossed Ubuntu on it and haven’t looked back.
• Because of the recent revelation of key logging software CarrierIQ having been installed on a lot of smartphones, I migrated my HTC EVO Shift 4G away from Sprint’s stock rom onto Cyanogenmod 7 and kicked myself for not having done it sooner.
• I successfully moved my small collection of domain names away from GoDaddy to Name.com as a result of GoDaddy’s original support for the SOPA bill that has recently been introduced to the US Congress. GoDaddy has since backed away from supporting it but hasn’t spoken out against it.

I was fortunate to have the remaining two weeks of the year off from work. Part of that time has been used for reflection. Time moves so fast some days that it’s difficult to see how things are progressing. I originally thought that I hadn’t been able to accomplish as much as I always seem to intend. I could have certainly done more and plan to during 2012. But looking back has brought some closure to the year for me and has provided me with some insight for setting goals for the year to come.

Played Fallout 3.

Bathroom break.

Played Fallout 3.

Lunchtime.

Bathroom break.

Played Fallout 3.

Nap time.

Played Fallout 3.

Dinner.

Played Fallout 3.

Bathroom break.

Played Fallout 3.

Went to bed.

A more glorious day was not to be.

I was wishing we find the motherfucker person responsible for the death of my fellow citizens and bring them to justice.

It might be nothing more symbolic than Captain Ahab finally catching his white whale, but to the men and women serving in our armed forces and intelligence services around the world, I simply say thank-you.

Sprint 4G Coverage Map showing Will-O-Bee

Given that some of those shown on the map are region names as opposed to city names (IE: West Mentor, Chagrin Harbor, Salida Beach), they are at least spelled correctly. While it may be pronounced Will-O-Bee, it should be spelled “Willoughby” as we are not in grade school. I’m assuming the term “On The Lake” refers to the community of Mentor On The Lake. So at the very least it should spell out “Willoughby On The Lake”.

Come on, Sprint! Get your act together. Staff your PR Departments with more Spelling Bee champions.

Leslie Nielson as Dr. Alan Rumack in Airplane!

Goodnight and thanks for all the laughs.

Maybe I’m mistaken. Maybe the Lake Erie Monsters will rise up in the AHL and bring Cleveland it’s first hockey championship since the 1963-1964 Cleveland Barons won the Calder Cup for the ninth time by defeating the top ranked Quebec Aces.

So I can sympathize with LeBron James who finds himself in a critical decision between staying in Cleveland, where championships are rare but fan loyalty is strong, or leaving for a better chance at the trophy ring at the sake of alienating the people who carry him on their shoulders.

As I stare at the clock, now one hour before the big announcement program begins on ESPN, I have to admit that despite what I and the rest of the city wants, LeBron should do what’s best for LeBron. It pains me to see such a talented, team-oriented player stuck in a cursed city which hasn’t seen a championship team since the 1964 Cleveland Browns stuck it to the Baltimore Colts 27-0, or the Cleveland Indians who last won a World Series title in 1948 taking the Boston Braves to game six. The Cleveland Cavaliers, who have never won a championship, neither have the lengthy history of the Indians, nor the legend of the Browns. It has only been recently that they’ve been making a name for themselves and you’d be called a fool if you said it was for any other reason besides LeBron.

I know that the team to contend with will be the one who has LeBron on their roster. I’d like it to be Cleveland because I think the city deserves to have a great player believe in it for a change. If it’s not, unlike the others in the past, I won’t hold it against LeBron. Good luck and goodnight.

You get ask the usual questions about where you found the product, did you research the product, where did you buy the product, etc. Then there’s the list of rateable items where you choose how strongly you feel about them, such as, how you you value customer reviews of the product, professional reviews, included software, etc. Last are the demographic questions about you explaining how technically proficient you think you are, your age, your annual income, etc. It was the annual income question which amused me the most:

There at the bottom, one can choose “None of your business“. Not “Prefer not to say” or “Decline to comment” but rather to the point.

It made me laugh. The little things always do.

Union official tells players to stash some cash in case of work stoppage: Cleveland Cavaliers Insider: Players Ass... http://bit.ly/9luhZA

So, is it a player who’s an ass, or is it the player’s ass where they should stash their cash?