Woman #1: I don’t know what we’re going to do. Tim has a good job, but with three kids, I don’t think we’re going to be able to afford college. It’d probably help if I worked, but I’d rather spend all day chatting with my friends over coffee.
Woman #2: Hmmm. Have you thought about going to www.wecollectyouremailandsellittospammers.com? They have all kinds of ideas about how to make money online.
Woman #1: Really? What kinds of things? Dirty webcam things? (shudders)
Woman #2: Well, I can’t tell you too much, since I do want you to visit the site and give away your personal information, but I can tell you that with their help I’m making over $56,000 a month online, working as little as 37 seconds a day!
Woman #1: Wow! That sounds like something I could do! What was that website again?
Editor’s note: You get a ninety-day free trial, so there’s no risk involved. However, in order to sign up, we will need to get your name, address, credit card information and name of your first-born. With any luck, by the time you realize that we’re selling complete bunk as a front for our email-harvesting scheme, we’ll have also managed to sell your credit card info to a portly geek in Malaysia with a lisp.
Book tally: 301 pages, 87669 words
May 18th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I see the portly geek has moved. Didn’t he use to be in Africa?
May 18th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Name of my firstborn? Good, it can’t be a rip-off then as they’d need my mother’s maiden name and the social security of my college roommate to use my credit card number!
However, I only have 22.3 seconds a day to devote to internet work so I suppose I’ll have to pass.
May 18th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
montucky - yes, he’s moved. The realities of his business mean he’s got to “think on his feet” in order to stay competitive in today’s global economy.
wordvixen - it’s no rip-off, they promise. Besides, they already have your mother’s maiden name from that MLM scheme you joined a while back, remember?
It’s a shame, too - you’d be rich if you had 15 seconds more to spare.