IMing With A Gentleman From Nigeria

by Danny Sullivan on August 10, 2007

in Internet

I do some instant messaging, though not a ton — and I rarely get IM spam.
But that happened to me recently, and I found it kind of funny. Maybe you will
too…

them: hi danny
me: hi?
them: yup
them: how are u
them: ?
me: who are you?
them: l’m a gentleman from Nigeria
me: hi gentleman from nigeria. what do you want.
them: wanna be ur friend
me: got enough friends. bye
them: why?
*** them has been ignored.

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1 Simon Heseltine August 10, 2007 at 2:32 am

Aw Danny, you cut him off just before he could offer you 20% of the £50 million that he has to smuggle out of the country. ;)

2 Tamar Weinberg August 10, 2007 at 3:16 am

LOL, I got a laugh out of that.
That’s like the Facebook spam I got a few weeks ago.
Needless to say, Facebook deleted his account a few days later.

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