A poor chap I know in Malaysia still believes - against all the odds - that Saddam Hussein's people will be arriving soon with a large bag of US Dollar banknotes that they need to get out of Iraq. All he has to do is collect it in Bangkok, carry it to Kuala Lumpur and deposit it a particular HSBC account. He gets to keep 10% for his trouble.
It would be funny, except that he's not too bright and was never very prosperous. Just a simple working man, trying hard to feed his family and make ends meet. He's gone broke sending them cash to bribe officials and paying for air fares and hotel bills for the two 'Iraqis' that came over to Bangkok for discussions. His wife left him and took the kids back to her father's when the bank foreclosed on their housing loan and they were evicted. It was a sad day when he decided that using the local internet cafe to learn how to use a computer would be good for his future employment prospects.
Not everyone can help being gullible; its time we had the death penalty for Spammers.
