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July 12, 2005
Cliffon, I found You a Phone!
Turns out the Nigerian Email Scammer asked for a phone that doesn't exist. (search on google for Nokia 9300i and see what you find.) Good thing.
I don't have one.
What I might have, though, is the plague. Or so I told him:
From: "calculatoronfire @hotmail.com"
To: kunlecallforlove@hotmail.com
Subject: I found you a phone!
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:02:02 -0400
Cliff,
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I spent the day at the doctor's office instead of at the shop. I'm just stopping in to answer your email as I noticed that you wrote "URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED" in the subject line last time around.
Don't ask me how I could get sick in the middle of summer, what with the heat and all, but I've gone and done it. As a result, I'll be out of the office for the next two or three days on doctor's orders. Seems he wants me to basically quarantine myself, just in case. (This past weekend fishing with my son and grandson I got bitten by a groundhog while we were launching the boat. The doctor wants to make sure I don't have the plague-- something about close contact with rodents. I could have told him as much, though I do have a pretty awful headache.) But I'll try to make it in at least once a day when the rest of the guys aren't in.
What I'm saying is, I might not be able to get back to you right away but I'll try.
Well, on to business.
We don't usually deal in cellular phones on account of our expertise being in electrical wiring and not with computer chips. But there is a guy in the shop that has done a little work with graphing calculators and he said he was willing to give fixing up a Nokia 9300 for you a try. It took a lot of begging on my part for him to finally give in, then I found the 9300 hasn't even gone on sale here in the US.
So I went out and searched the market a bit yesterday trying to find you something comperable and today I got a call while at the doctor's office telling me about one that's available.
It's a Nokia 9500, which normally retails for somewhere around $800 here in the States, but I can get for you for $450+ S&H.
I haven't seen the phone, but my seller tells me it's barely been used. On the outside it's fine, he says not even a scratch. Problem is Mr Business, or whatever the last owner's name was, dropped it in the toilet and the sucker shorted out. Don't ask me how that happened, or if it really even did. My seller likes to make up stories about the stuff he passes may way. What I can tell you for sure is that Randy, the graphing calculator guy, will get the thing in working condition for you in no time flat. The guy's a genius.
It's company policy, however, to get a deposit on bigger orders like this. Seeing as you're overseas and a good customer I tried to get the boss to waive the fee, but he said I especially need to get one with you being so far away. So I'm going to have to ask you for a credit card number. Don't worry, you won't see a charge on the card unless we don't hear from you for 30 days and get stuck with the phone. I'll just need to verify it's a good number before we buy the phone.
You're a business man, I'm sure you understand.
As for the toasters. I haven't heard back from my contact at the hotel yet. He'll be back in the office Wednesday and I'll be sure to get you all the info about them ASAP.
Thanks for the business, Cliff.
Harry
Posted by calculatoronfire at July 12, 2005 10:09 PM
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