I really do think these stupid Spam e-mails we all get telling you you've been left millions of pounds by someone you never knew in Nigeria are absurd. Does anybody actually fall for them?

I think you will find that a lot of people still do. Millions have been lost by witless people in the UK alone!

Brian Forbes actually did. He wrote an absurd 'beware' article for the Daily Mail a couple of years ago, saying how he'd been awfully excited and then discovered he'd been tricked by a fiendishly crafty scam! The brain power in the Forbes-Newman home must be almost powerful enough to turn on a light switch!

they - I realise I write 'they' without realising who 'they' are lol

anyway, they send so many millions of these automated things out that if only a few bite then it's worth their while.

Here's the link to the bizarre Forbes article:

www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/439181/in...down-2-million.thtml

Wakey wakey, Bryan, mate!

Prunella Minge wrote:
Here's the link to the bizarre Forbes article:

www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/439181/in...down-2-million.thtml

Wakey wakey, Bryan, mate!
what do they say.."a fool and his money etc etc"

On the other hand Prunella your name has been given to me as the winner of a wonderful package of the entire rights to all Bryan Forbe's film productions worth an estimated £1,895,000 and if you can forward me your bank account/credit card numbers with a signed authority I will organise for a deposit to your account. Also forward a small processing fee of £50000.

Flippin' HECK! Whoo-hoo! I'll get everything sent asap!