I have a few email accounts without external spam filters, so I get to filter quite a bit of email spam.  It’s pretty easy to spot.  I click on “delete from server” and “Junk” and usually don’t pay any attention to it.  But I received a new twist on the Nigerian wealth scam today.  I don’t read this, but I guess it was the “New Braunfels, Texas” in the first line or two that caught my attention.  The supposed sender gave his name and full address in New Braunfels, TX, then launches into this litany about how the Nigerians hadn’t lived up to their promises, so he took a trip to track them down.   Then he said he learned those Nigerians were fictional, and since he saw my email address on one of their lists, he wanted to let me know so I could quit sending my money to this scam.  Instead, I was supposed to contact someone else.

I shook my head, clicked “delete from server” and “Junk.”  But I thought I’d mention that these scam emails are evolving.  Either that, or our friend, Roy, has gone to great lengths to perpetrate a joke…