Craigslist Scam
This email landed in my inbox when I tried to sell some tickets last week. Apparently, he wants to pay more than what I listed them for. Wow isn’t he generous? I didn’t figure out until I realized he didn’t reference what it was he was buying.
from: shannonn mandela<shannonmandela@gmail.com>
to: Ruben Miranda
date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM
subject: Re: Date: 2010-09-29, 8:57AM CDT Reply to: sale-6c2hv-1979536763@craigslist.org
signed-by: gmail.com
Thanks for the your prompt response and i have decided and concluded
to buy the item from you. I am OK with the cost.And I would be very
glad to inform you that, My Office will be mailing overnight certified
check from my salary to cover the cost of the item as you
requested,I’ll want you to remove the advert from web and consider
this item is sold to me..So i want to be the best offer by offering
you extra $80 to your money as the best offer and i hope you will
keep this item for me.
I will be needing the following information to issue out the payment ..
Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Postal Code:
Country:
Phone Number:
Not P o Box Address:
Total amount for the item :
Also you should be aware that you won’t be responsible for shipping as
i will have my mover come over and pick it up as soon as you received
the check and. I also have some other goods i already bought in other
location which my mover will pick up all together. i will get back to
you once my secretary made the payment out to yo
The Fudgery in Charlotte, NC.
Visions of Puerto Rico
A one-hour documentary on Puerto Rico narrated by Rita Moreno. Fairly complete profile of the island.
The FCC National Broadband Plan
I was prominently featured in the the first technical paper of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. The plan is a massive effort by the administration to determine how much it would cost to extend broadband service to the remainder of the country.
At the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, they have live turkeys on display with giant billboards advertising the meat. That has to suck for the turkey.
I found the closed captioning for Tiger Wood’s “apology”.
![Photo from the infamous Cabinet meeting in 2008 where McCain shot himself in the election. From Henry Paulson’s book:
As [McCain] spoke, I could see Obama chuckling. McCain’s comments were anticlimactic, to say the least. His return to Washington was impulsive and risky, and I don’t think he had a plan in mind. If anything, his gambit only came back to hurt him, as he was pilloried in the press afterward.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9slc4st2r1qe41ygo1_500.jpg)
Photo from the infamous Cabinet meeting in 2008 where McCain shot himself in the election. From Henry Paulson’s book:
As [McCain] spoke, I could see Obama chuckling. McCain’s comments were anticlimactic, to say the least. His return to Washington was impulsive and risky, and I don’t think he had a plan in mind. If anything, his gambit only came back to hurt him, as he was pilloried in the press afterward.
Sandy Leeds
My former professor at UT, Sandy Leeds, is blogging at Leeds on Finance. He focuses on broad economic issues that impact investment decisions, as well as issues within the federal government’s fiscal policy. Occasionally sobering but dealt with the dry humor that I remember during class.
“What are you ladies doing tonight?”
