'Legally Erase Your Credit Card Debt' E-mai Not a Scam
Police investigating spam emails which purport to offer ways to 'Legally Erase Your Credit Card Debt' have revealed that they are not actually a scam.
Concerns were raised after millions of the messages were sent out from email addresses in Nigeria.
There were fears that the spammers were staging a massive scam in an attempt to defraud unwitting internet users.
But now Scotland Yard has acted to reassure worried members of the public.
Detective Superintendent Graham Strange said: 'We looked at these emails very closely.
'A typical message might say something along the lines of: "Greetings brother. My name is Elijah Petit St Jacques Borea from Nigeria, and I am here to tell you how you can get rid of all your credit card debts completely legally my friend.
"The answer is simple: just agree with your bank that you will pay off £1000 per month and, in no time at all, I guarantee you will be free of your debts. Praise the Lord!" '
It was 'just a good piece of advice from someone with a sound grasp of financial good sense and a concern for others', said Supt Strange. 'They go on to point out that if you had enough savings, you could simply pay the whole amount owed off in one go,' he added. 'Other suggestions include thinking carefully about whether you can afford things before you actually buy them and making sure you pay off the balance each month to avoid interest charges.'
Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities
Mortgage Backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates. Criminals on Wall Street stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them with turds. Their criminal buddies at Standard & Poor rated these boxes AAA Investment Grade chocolates. These boxes were then sold all over the world to investors. Eventually somebody bites into a turd and discovers the crime. Suddenly nobody trusts American chocolates anymore worldwide.
Hank Paulson now wants the American taxpayers to buy up and hold all these boxes of turd-infested chocolates for $700 billion dollars until the market for chocolates returns to normal. Meanwhile, Hank's buddies, the Wall Street criminals who stole all the good chocolates are not being investigated, arrested, or indicted.
Mama always said: "Sniff the chocolates first Forrest
Father Secretly Names Baby Sarah McCain Palin
(AP) -- A new father has secretly named his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican ticket for president and vice president.
Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl's birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.
"I don't think she believes me yet," he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be published Tuesday. "It's going to take some more convincing."
Ciptak, a blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to "to get the word out" about the campaign.
"I took one for the cause," he said. "I can't give a lot of financial support for the (McCain/Palin) campaign. I do have a sign up in my yard, but I can do very little."
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This new father's last name isn't even Palin. It's Ciptak. {Lol} Neither his surname or his wife's surname is on the baby's birth certificate! So funny. - Rosco