(Rhodium being a very expensive metal)

Nigerian phishing email

This is to officialy inform you that we have verified your CONTRACT/INHERITANCE payment of US$450,000,00and we the Senate committee on appropriation and finance have arranged your payment to be paid with an atm card in regard to an order from MR. President Alhaja Musa Yara’dua (GCFR) Federan Republic of Nigeria, an ATM card which you will use to withdraw your money from any ATM Machine in any part of the world have been approved for you. to receive your ATM card of $450,000,00 us dollars contact Mr.Famous Itsemhe on this email: [blah, blah, blah]

An ATM card to withdraw 450 thousand smackers? Yeah, right. I can fantasize (ubergeek fantasy, admittedly) that there’s a phishing database that measures the gullibility coefficient, and phishologists meticulously changing one variable at a time and measuring the response rates, with confidence intervals from their population sampling statistics. Because if it wasn’t for the ATM bit, I was ready to believe.

Besides, at $300 a day, it’ll take more than four years to get all the money. I want it now!

It’s a hand-held catapult-like device to chuck things, and yes, those projectiles are small nun figurines. So, it’s a NUN-CHUCK, just like it says.

I don’t show this off to just anyone at the office; I wait until I know them and use my judgement. But this is the internet. Caveat emptor.

I really should round out my collection and become an equal-opportunity offender, so if anyone has a line on a protestant-o-pult, or an atheist arbalest (arbalatheist?) or even a Buddhistic ballista, let me know. I got the above at American Science & Surplus, though they’re also available at Archie McPhee (and perhaps elsewhere)