A bit of fun.

So, this showed up in my inbox today:

U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington , DC 20520
Greeting from USA Embassy,

THIS MAIL IS ONLY FOR THE OWNER OF THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS

Attention: Friend,

This is to notify you that your package has been in our custody waiting for your comply before the delivery will be effected to your delivery address. We have been waiting for you to contact us regarding your package that FedEx Express suppose to deliver to your address which was put on hold by US Department of State Bureau requesting for clearance certificate which will be obtained from the origination country of the package before it will be released/subsequent delivery to your home address.

After the meeting held by our board of director which was concluded that the delivery of your consignment to your address must be completed within three working days upon your comply to our requirements which is by sending the sum of $210.00 to enable us obtain the needed certificate and effect the delivery of your package immediately.

Note that your package has been arrived in US embassy and waiting to receive clearance certificate before the gate pass is given.

Meanwhile, you are adviced to reconfirm the below information upon
contacting us to avoid delivery to wrong person.
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Full name........................
address: ..........................
Phone: ...........................
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Once you notify us with the above information we will release/deliver your consignment to you.

You can contact us on the contact name and e-mail address below,
Contact person, Hon Jeffry Smith
EMAIL: unitedamericaembassy_usa@ubbi.com

Note that you are expected to pay only $210.00 for clearance certificate and you are to pay it to Benin Republic as the origination country of the consignment box in favour of MR DAVID WILLIAMS ABUDI as our accountant officer in Benin Republic.

Send the $210.00 through western union or Money Gram once you receive this mail with the information below for immediate release/delivery of your package.

Receivers............. ...Name:Mr. David Williams Abudi Chiro
City..........................Cotonou
Country ....................Benin
Code..........................229
Test ..........................Question: Are you the right owner
Answer ...................Yes
Amount....................$210.00

Once you send the money, try to notify us through e-mail with the MTCN for easy pick up by our accountant in Benin Republic and for immediate action on the release/delivery of your package.

Please treat this as matter of urgency .

Note that any uncliamed consignment will be returned to FedEx Xpress courier company ltd after 3 days of this notice.

So you are urgently advised to comply with our demands so that we will release your consignment.


Hon Jeffry Smith.
Public Relation Officer United State Embassy.
FROM UNITED STATE EMBASSY.

So, as you can tell, this is really serious business, I replied almost immediately to ensure that this situation could be addressed appropriately:

Hon Jeffry Smith,

Thank you so much for your email. I have been waiting for this package as it contains the ashes of my dearest, and dead pet armadillo, Reynold.

I have sent the $210.00 via Western Union to:

Hon Jeffry Smith
US Dept of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520

Please let me know when you receive the money. I have sorely missed my Reynold & intend to sprinkle some of his ashes on my front lawn as well as use some in my famous lemon chicken with ashed armadillo and basil risotto that has the critics raving! It has been a long time since I've seen or tasted him. There was an incident on our vacation to Benin last winter which, to make a long story short, required me to kill poor Reynold so that the militants (they were _so_ pissed that we crashed their party) would respect & honor me, and thereby released me back to my beloved swampy home. After I gained their trust and admiration, they ensured me that they would cremate him and send the remains back to me.

I am so elated that these seemingly volatile men have made good on their promise and my reunion with Reynold is lip-smackingly near!


The address to send the package is:

Mike Jorgensen
Lake Okeechobee
Florida, America, USA

Kindest regards

Mike Jorgensen

Stay tuned to see what happens, if anything...