Monday, April 19, 2010
I don't get a lot of spam these days, but a few slip through. This one from this morning cheered me obscurely, as it was different from the usual stuff.
It set me to daydreaming of a world-wide poverty fighting team, equipped with ATM cards with giant balances, in the field, doing good, where-ever they could, air-dropping into troubled areas...
A next generation, post-modern, post-internet set of superheroes, working undercover, anonymously, to make the world a better place.
It would be nice, if it were true... cost-effective, too, if whatever was identifying the ATM recipients was actually researching the backgrounds they had, and otherwise keeping the staff at HQ low to non-existent. Maybe they'd built up an AI, that did all the research work.
Perhaps I'll write some fiction along these lines, one day...
Think, for example, of what kind of good this poverty fighting team could have done, instead of bailing out the Banksters of Wall Street, in places where people make less than a dollar a day. Worldwide - Malaria - cured. Social diseases, reduced. Hunger, solved. Education, improved.
Ah, well. Back to banging the rocks together this morning. ¶ 5:57 AM
It set me to daydreaming of a world-wide poverty fighting team, equipped with ATM cards with giant balances, in the field, doing good, where-ever they could, air-dropping into troubled areas...
A next generation, post-modern, post-internet set of superheroes, working undercover, anonymously, to make the world a better place.
It would be nice, if it were true... cost-effective, too, if whatever was identifying the ATM recipients was actually researching the backgrounds they had, and otherwise keeping the staff at HQ low to non-existent. Maybe they'd built up an AI, that did all the research work.
Perhaps I'll write some fiction along these lines, one day...
- FROM: dr.felixwilson@hotmail.com
Attn: Beneficiary,
I am directed to inform you that your payment verification and confirmations is OK. Your ATM Card Numbers is : 4001010257172299, Your Secret PIN Number is 8342. The ATM Card Value is $3.5M USD Only. Respond immediately with your full name, as you want them on the card and your delivery address/Phone Number.
In case you are wondering why or from where, it is a special grant from the World Bank, World Health Organisation, African Union, European Union plus other International bodies in conjunction, to all scam victims and towards alleviating the high level of continous rising level of poverty globally.
Congratulations once again
Dr. Felix Wilson,
Director ATM Unit
Scotiabank
Think, for example, of what kind of good this poverty fighting team could have done, instead of bailing out the Banksters of Wall Street, in places where people make less than a dollar a day. Worldwide - Malaria - cured. Social diseases, reduced. Hunger, solved. Education, improved.
Ah, well. Back to banging the rocks together this morning. ¶ 5:57 AM
