Museum of Loneliness believes in call waiting. Museum of Loneliness believes in junk mail. Museum of Loneliness believes daytime TV is the final frontier (more of which later).
MoL hasn’t had one of these for a while, received this morning under title Awful Trip!!!
Good morning,
I hope you get this in time, my family and I made a trip to Manila(Philippines) unfortunately we were mugged at the park of the hotel we are staying, all cash,credit card and cell were stolen off us but luckily we still have our passports with us.
I have been to the Embassy and the Police here but their response was too casual, the bad news is our flight will be leaving very soon but we are having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won’t let us leave until we settle the bills, I will need your help/LOAN financially I promise to make the refund once we get back home, you are my last resort and hope, Please let me know if i can count on you and i need you to keep checking your email because it’s the only way i can reach you.
Thanks
M
MoL is a huge fan of these and being a philanthropic and charitable institution immediately wrote back to say how much, where, when? I bring cash money to the hotel. OMG how awful!!
MoL is curious to know if one of these scams has ever worked or are they examples of performance art? When I get the chance I will pass on details of a really good scam which was both random and incredibly elaborate, even involving someone posing as a courier to come round to the house to collect a cancelled credit card. As it is, I like being informed that Manila is in the Philippines. I like describing the response of the Manila police and the British embassy, two very different institutions as “too casual”. I like the way the sender avoids naming her family. I like the idea of me being anyone’s last resort and hope but I still give it only 3/10 because of style, punctuation and a certain lack of originality. But I probably would read a whole novel written by these people.
In bulk mail Boris Hartwig offers to restore my sex life and includes a strange piece of rogue text: killing a number of people because their position the elites fell spattering purple and whom [sic]. Why do courier companies keep sending me notification of undelivered deliveries when I am not expecting anything? Unlimited Payday tells me I have received a payment. Mark Ross tells me to learn the method and I will earn big time playing online roulette. (I met a man the other day who only bet on 26. The only system I have been tempted by is to bet always on the last colour, which in effect means betting against a continuing run of red/black.) And Jess at Boundary Bathrooms reminds me that I have been a previous customer (no) and among her wares is a shower called Rubicon and a bath named Ballad [sic].