As I checked my e-mail over coffee, I discovered that I had won the Japanese/European Lottery and I was now 1,000,000 Euros richer. Wow! And all I had to do was reply to Mr. Hirohito, who sent the message, and he would get back to me and tell me what to do.
I’ll bet he would need my Social Security Number (that’s a big requirement in Europe or Japan for identifying lucky Americans, isn’t it?).
Or, more likely, I would have to send Mr. Hirohito $1,000.00 to show good faith and to allow for processing the million Euros into an account of my own. That’s reasonable, right?
I don’t think this is the same kind of thing as the woman from Darfur who wanted to send me $250,000,000.00 that her late husband had amassed to donate to Christian Charities. Since I’m an atheist, I couldn’t ethically see my way to responding to her (she probably needed a good faith payment to process all this money anyway.)
I get so many of thee opportunities that I don’t quite know what to make of them… except that I must be trusted by an awful lot of folks around the world who I don ‘t know. And for some reason, I seem to enter all these foreign lotteries… and win them… but I can’t remember when I do it. I think that is because I’m getting deeper into senior citizenship and my memory is fading.
Oh well, I guess I’ll just keep going my lower middle-class way. Getting rich at this point in my life would be too much to handle.
I’m sure there are plenty of others who get this kind of e-mail and are more likely to take advantage if it.
