I got this email out of the cold clear November sky one day. I have not edited it one tiny little bit except to remove any identifying source. Sure it takes all kinds, but something tells me this kind ain't my kind…
From: someone Date: Sun Nov 17, 2002 5:46:19 PM US/Eastern To: me Subject: You've Got Mail: Dear friend, I just join these site and i find your ad at the profil center and i deceide to write these massive words of mine to u and see what will happen.But without much to say i'm from Ghana,Western part of Africa and i'm a hearted give womab and i haven't married before and is now i want my soul one to spend the rest of my life with and when i saw your ad and i see that you are the right person i'm looking for,so i'm sending you these mail,so pls pls try and write back after you read these mail and i hope u will.I want to end here.Bye.take care
"Massive words" huh? I wonder what she was trying to say, I also wonder if this was really a Ghanan woman interested in little ole me.
Maybe you have heard about an email scam that seems to originate in Nigeria. Interestingly enough Ghana is just a little West of Nigeria with only two tiny little thin countries (Benin and Togo) between them. So if you are on a popular dating site and get an email like this, I would just delete it if I were you.