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kpjf
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A Japanse teaher at my school was very excited one day and asked me and an american teacher about some big news he got on google. It was a letter he prineted out saying he won 1 million pounds  and he was a little excites but suspicious. 
When he showed it to us we really laughed at the letter because it had so many spelling mistakes and grammar problems and we knew it can no way be a native speaker and said it was obviously just a scam. I felt bad thought because he looked disppointed. 
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That just reminded me of this: Man travels 1,000 miles to claim bogus prize |
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Janiny
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Once a Hungarian recruiter out of nowhere wrote to congratulate me on being chosen to be the English teacher for the children of the president of South Africa. I had not even applied for such a position, so it seemed a real honor. Of course, I knew it was a scam immediately. First of all, wouldn't the South African presidents children be grown up, and, more to the point, probably fairly fluent in English? Are there no South Africans that can teach English? She promised a huge salary, a limousine and a nice apartment plus immediate reimbursement upon arrival, but a $1500 fee of some sort was required before we could proceed. I wrote back and said thanks, I accept, but that I was a little light. Could she advance me the $1500, and I would pay her back $2,000 later.
She replied that 'I was a very bad man'. Haven't heard from her since. Ah well...
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Lack
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| Janiny wrote: |
Once a Hungarian recruiter out of nowhere wrote to congratulate me on being chosen to be the English teacher for the children of the president of South Africa. I had not even applied for such a position, so it seemed a real honor. Of course, I knew it was a scam immediately. First of all, wouldn't the South African presidents children be grown up, and, more to the point, probably fairly fluent in English? Are there no South Africans that can teach English? She promised a huge salary, a limousine and a nice apartment plus immediate reimbursement upon arrival, but a $1500 fee of some sort was required before we could proceed. I wrote back and said thanks, I accept, but that i was a little light. Could she advance me the $1500, and I would pay her back $2,000 later.
She replied that 'I was a very bad man'. Haven't heard from her since. Ah well... |
Just like those old scam letters back in the days of snail mail where you got a letter saying you won a lottery of some sort and you had to do was send some sort of fee to release the money to you.
"Only $2000? Tell you what, I don't have the money, but you can take $5000 out of my winnings to cover your fee, plus a little bonus for you and send me the rest." |
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