Saturday, October 8, 2011

do people really fall for this stuff?

I got this random email that really made my day. It reminded me of something Jim would write to Dwight for a prank.



"Hello Dear,



With Respect,



Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you.I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before.

After you receive this mail kindly contact me on my private Email contact below. introducing myself, I am fatimamohammad the Only Daughter of the late mohammad Dominic, my father was a gold and cocoa merchant based in accra , Ghana and Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips recently.



Before his death, He called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of 6.500,000USD deposited in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire, that he used my name for the next of kin in depositing of the fund.



I will need your assistance as follows:



1) To assist me in retrieving this money from the bank.

2) To serve as the guardian of this fund.

3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a residential permit in your country.



Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund to your nominated account overseas.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

you've got mail.

i've been working SO hard to build this business of mine. so hard that sometimes i get a little to sensitive about things. today i took something super personal when i shouldn't have. ryan had some great advice.



"you need to be like tom." -ryan

"tom who? tom hanks??"-me

"yes, don't be meg ryan's character. be tom! it's not personal, it's business." -ryan


hahaha i love my husband.