In my email box this week…

Seriously, you’re NOT helping things by sending obviously bogus messages to me or anyone else. Spammers and pranksters want you to clog up the world’s email boxes, and you’re playing the perfect fool by complying…

If anyone writes back to the scammer asking for confirmation or more details, the scammer stonewalls them with short, quick answers emphasizing the emergency nature of the situation and that they’ll explain everything later…

Well, the Washington Post says it’s a fake list. In fact, the words aren’t neologisms at all. They’re puns. The Post should know, because they actually publish neologisms on occasion…

Using bogus information, a scammer can create a free web site and a free email account. The web site is set up to capture credit card or checking account information. He or she then sends out thousands of email invoices in just one day…

Long before the dust settles, survivors will have to learn manual simulations of current pastimes. Computers, email, and video games will be replaced by typewriters, pencil-to-paper letters, and toys of wood and metal.

I can’t wait to give perfect strangers all my bank account information so they can wire transfer my manna from heaven right to me. Gee, this gives them access to my life savings, so I hope they don’t take everything that I already have in that account.