I received an email from MR MASHAL AFRAAH (which according to his email, he is my good friend :P).

Here’s his email:

CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL FROM.
MR MASHAL AFRAAH
THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB).
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

My Good Friend,

How are you doing together with your family? I guessed all is well. My massage should not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact you on this magnitude and lucrative transaction for our future survival in life.
Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

As i have said, I AM MASHAL AFRAAH. THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FOREIGN REMITTANCE UNIT, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OUAGADOUDOU BURKINA-FASO.
Now i have the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINTEEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($19,300,000.00 ) for our future success.

This is and abandoned sum that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years ago. Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2008.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 6 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund.

As a honour and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules guilding our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a citizen of Burkina Faso , you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the deceased.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary and legit to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased costomer.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, { 39% } being ( US$7,527,000.00) will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being the codinator and the pillar of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being (US$1,737,000.00) will be shared to the respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World.

Now, if you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability,confidentiality on this transaction, contact me and agree that you will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have getting into your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because i am sure of the success as an insider in the bank.

Please reply with the assurance, include your private telephone and fax numbers necessary for facilitate an easy communication in this transaction.

As soon as you reply , give me a call through my private telephone number on (00 226 70437906) so that i will let you know the next step to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.

I expect your urgent communication and my best regard to you and all members of your family.
mashal_afraa19@yahoo.fr
Yours sincerely,

MR MASHAL AFRAAH

I wonder how did GMail didn’t caught this junk as a spam. Maybe because it was sent from yahoo.fr? Do you think there are people still gullible enough to fall to this kind of scam?

What about that DotCom Bust ? Was it also a scam?

Maybe we need to draw a line here. The email above is definitely a pure scam. No integrity and reliability, and it’s not well-thought for using yahoo.fr email address, n00b scammer perhaps? But for those investors who are playing in stock market are risk-informed person. They know that all those future value, profit projections,etc are just an expectation from the Company management. But beware that even though some companies made their expectation based on honest assessment, some others based on FUD (remember SCO?), there are those which using pure fantasy 😀

So what have we learned today? Always remember that famous phrase “If it sounds too good to be true, very likely probably it is”

For those of you who is currently managing a Windows 2003 Server (or any server), users upload MP3 files to the company server might poise a possible copyright infringement. If you are, hopefully this ARTICLE will help you do your work.

But please note that it could be possible that user actually upload the whole album in a document archive (zip, rar, ace, etc). So there are ways to work around the prohibition described in that article. So it’s actually a continuous effort from you to prevent users from uploading copyrighted materials into your company server.

I take above approach as the curative approach. The preventive approach should be educating the users in your company about copyright infringements. And always let the users know that whatever they are doing in the company’s servers, they should be responsible to their actions. And don’t forgot to emphasize that “We’re watching you!” (and you may finish it with an evil laugh .. 😛 )

This research concludes that a bad sleeping habit might expose yourself to diabetes.

So in short, there are two effects of bad sleeping habit to your Diabetes risks:

1. Direct effect. The research found that the insulin level in your blood is reduced significantly when you didn’t get enough sleep.
2. Indirect effect. Bad sleeping habit increases your chance of developing obesity. And being obese gives you higher risk to get diabetes

Short summarize of Diabetes taken from Wikipedia:

1. Diabetes is an illness where the blood sugar level in a body is very high. This high level of blood sugar will cause the body to get easily fatigue, excessive urination, blurred vision, impotence for male, and bad ability in healing wounds (difficulty to stop bleeding).
2. There are three types of Diabetes, Type 1, Type 2 and Diabetes resulted from pregnancy.
   • Type 1 is characterized by low insulin production caused by the autoimmune destruction of the cells that produce insulin.
   • Type 2 is characterized by insulin resistance by the cells in the body.
   • To some women with certain genetic condition, when they are pregnant, the pregnancy hormone will cause the insulin resistance, symptoms of Type 2 diabetes.

So what should we do to stay healthy and stay away from Diabetes?

1. Obviously, have a better sleeping habit. Have enough rest every night. Don’t forgot to switch off your light. Sleeping in total darkness will help to beef up your immune system.
2. Stay fit. Don’t let yourself enjoy the comfort of being overweight, let alone obese.
3. Stop smoking (hmm.. this is like talking to a mirror … 🙁 )
4. And don’t forgot to pray … 🙂

Hmm.. this should become a good reason to motivate myself to stop smoking keep on reducing the number of my daily cigarettes consumption (and eventually stop), and kick off that ‘getting fit’ program that has long forgotten delayed by complicated reason.

Happy New Year and stay healthy people!