The email spam item of the day:

“Respond Before they Kill Me”.

It’s an attachment, so I’m not about to open it.  I first assume it’s evoking the, quote-de-quote,  “Green Revolution” in Iran.  Surely we’re not fishing around the South Carolina serial killer on the loose?  But the name doesn’t stick for that one.

 This, I gather, is it.  It’s not giving me any Iranians to save from Khamenei.  But maybe I guess the foreign situation has to be somewhat more in the background for these scams  to work?

But it does mark an evolution in subject lines from the purely cynical “deal” to a more altruistic plea — one gilded with the old promise of the rich ruling class’s money, perhaps, but altruistic pleading nonetheless.  Or perhaps the storyline of the “Nigerians” just needs to get more desperate?

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