QUOTE(davburr @ Apr 18 2006, 09:17 AM) 
I've sold lots of computer and motorcycle stuff via Craigslist - I look at it as the free version of ebay.
hey what are you saying about nigeria!?? why just the other day I found out I have a long lost relative from there who left me millions and a very nice and kind nigerian lawyer contacted me and all I had to do was give him my bank account access so he could transfer the money in directly - I will be a millionaire within a few hours woo hoo!
One of my brother-in-laws has one of the most humorous blogs I've read. He responds back to the Nigerian emails. Here's an example of one:
Dear Dr. Olu Mbakwe:
Thank you so much for your offer of 20% of US$24,000,000.00. I admit that
the money would come in handy, as I have recently been incapacitated by an
unexpected groundhog attack. Do you have groundhogs on Victoria Island? If
so, you must realise how vicious they are, particularly when you
accidentally come across a pack of them in the forest, in the barren Month
of December when hunger pangs set in, and they crave fresh meat. The
Doctors tell me that I will have scars below the knees for as long as I
live, and I'm just lucky that I lost only one toe. As you also are a Doctor
perhaps you know that groundhog scars heal slowly. Unless you're a
Psychiatrist or something.
Additionally, if you are in fact interested in investing in real estate, I
have a great property here in Ann Arbor, Michigan that you really ought to
take a look at. I recently moved out of my co-op and put it on the market.
It is just 700 square feet, 1100 if you count the basement, and is for sale
for a mere US$74,000, but between you and me, Dr. Olu Mbakwe, I'd take
US$72,000, as it would be in my interest to not pay the utility bills on two
residences, since our evil President George W. Bush has conspired with his
oil cronies to increase all oil and gas prices by astronomical amounts here
in the US, while pretending to wage a war on "Terror" which apparently means
killing and torturing and imprisoning in concentration camps lots and lots
of Muslims. The US public, as you may have observed from Victoria Island,
supports the evil President George W. Bush in these policies because their
minds are addled by Gatorade, Doritos, Lite Beer and cable television. But
enough about US politics. How's Victoria Island, Lagos treating you? Do you
have an evil President there, too? Is your Country one of the insignificant
losers in the "Coalition of the Willing?" If you don't know what that is,
don't waste any time figuring it out. It means nothing.
You need not worry about my ability to keep this transaction strictly
confidential. I am great at keeping secrets. Like, I never told anyone how I
once surprised my friend Raoul prancing around in his wife's negligee and
feather boa. He was so embarrassed! To tell you the truth, he actually
looked kinda cute. But I never told anyone about it. Except you.
Please let me know what further steps we should take to move this
transaction forward. You can mail documents to my attention at P.O. Box
3238, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106 USA. For starters, it would be interesting to
know if I could get like a couple hundred US bucks up front, to start a bank
account that you can transfer the US$24,000,000.00 into. regrettably, I
recently had to cash out all my bank accounts to invest in my new
invention, the "Straknispoofo-Oonorkifeaw," an evolved dining implement that
combines not only the spoon and fork, like the common spork (do you have
sporks on Victoria Island? They're swell.), but also the knife and the
straw. Perhaps you'd be interested in investing in that as well. it will
revolutonise both eating and drinking as we know it.
Faith and Begorrah,
Rev. Nitro von Borax
