Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Do I look stupid or something?

Call me cynical and perhaps even the "B" word, but this is really getting ridiculous. I received the following in an email:

HELLO,

MY NAME IS don larry 45 FROM stanton BUT CURRENTLY IN NIGERIA 4 MY UNCLE BURIAL CEREMONY, AM NEW HERE AND I AM ALSO NEW ON THIS INTERNET SEARCHING AND I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN ABOUT THIS?.
I CAME ACROSS YOUR PROFILE AND I BELEIVE YOU ARE A GOOD woman AND WOULD BE THE KIND OF woman I WILL LIKE TO HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH U AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I AM VERY SERIOUS ABOUT WHAT I WANT AND I HOPE YOU ARE ALSO A SERIOUS ONE AND READY FOR WHAT YOU WANT. PLEASE EMAIL ME AT don_larry27@yahoo.com AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ME AND MY PROFILE.

Yeah, I'm going to get right on that and respond to him right away. I wonder, do these got ever get any responses? I'm sure they send out probably thousands of these emails a day. To what end? I guess there are gullible and vulnerable people out there, but I do not happen to be one of them. I think the internet is a wonderful and terrible thing. I love the information that is out there. I love that I can chat with friends, email, and blog. But getting spammed and ridiculous email messages like this is making me wonder if it's worth it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're right about the internet. It is useful because of the information that's out there and because through this you can contact your friends and family. The email you received from this guy makes you think twice about putting your profile out there for the purposes of online dating. I really wish that this guy gets the hang of the whole online dating deal (or better, may he never) so he wouldn't freak people out. Online dating has advantages; apparently it has disadvantages too.

Annabel said...

The only profile I have out there now is my blog profile and my yahoo profile which states that I'm single and not looking. I have not had my profile on a dating site for months now and have no intention of joining again. I will not date someone from online, period. But I guess the fact that I'm not interested doesn't keep people from trying.

Susanlee said...

hahahaha!! I get so many Nigerian scammers calling me at work every day!! It drives me crazy crazy!!