Safari???

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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:09 pm

My lad traveled 125 miles each way, is that enough for a safari hat? Or does it have to be 200 miles each way?

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:52 pm

The normal rule is 200 miles (apparently each way ) OR crossing an international border.

Bruin

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:30 pm

Maybe little safaris should earn a little hat---like a yarmulke.

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:32 pm

They should be backed up with IPs as well

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:50 pm

Got the IP's. I just don't think the mileage is enough.

I loved his desperate emails from Port Harcourt, however! Ha!

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:32 pm

Good job, NM! I love desperate emails from lads. Care to post up a few?

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:05 pm

Sure!

He sent me a bank account to deposit the funds into, but it was not his bank account, so I couldn't send it off to Alan. Instead...

Quote:

I just got an email from my assistant that he has made the payment. Mistakenly, he has gone to a Western Union, or something, and didn't deposit it into the bank account like I told him to do. I think he was confused because he was making several international payments to clients.

In any case, the money is there waiting for you.

The information below is what you will need.

I am heading to the airport to catch a plane out of town. I hope this money finds you well, and I am sorry that it took so long to get to you. But then, I paid this to you personally from my architecture firm and not from church funds, as was originally supposed to happen.

It is important that you email me to tell me that you have received the funds.

-Wanda

So I sent him to sectransfer site, and laughed as the emails came in from him accessing it. But uh oh! the image was erased before he had a chance to save the file or copy the number.

Quote:

DEAR WANDA,

I FOUND IT HAD TO VERIFY THE IMAGE FOR THE MONEY. PLEASE I WAS NOT ABLE TO CASH THE MONEY.

PLEASE RESEND IT VIA WESTERN UNION CAUSE THIS SECTRANSFERS METHOD I S COMPLICATED TO ME TO USE. I CANT USE IT. PLEASE I WOULD PREFER YOU TO USE WESTERN UNION TO TRANSFER THE FUNDS TO ME.

THANKS

ULOR

God, I just hate when they write all CAPS!

Then he sent a email to the customer service at sectransfer, so I dummied up a MG agent email and sent it back with a copy of the MG form, and a note saying it could only be picked up in Port Harcourt.

Then I waited. The next morning...

Quote:

DEAR WANDA,

I WENT TO A MONEY GRAM AGENT OUTLET IN PORT HARCOURT TODAY NOW TO RECEIVE MY FUNDS. THEY SAID THAT THE REFERENCE NUMBER IS NOT CORRECT. I WAS NOT ABLE TO CASHOUT AND RECEIVE THE FUNDS FOR MYSELF.
PLEASE HELP ME THIS TIME. THE MONEY GRAM REFERENCE NUMBER IS: 74136161.

PLEASE HELP ME OUT SO THAT I MAY RECEIVE THE FUNDS TODAY.
I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU URGENTLY PLEASE.
THANKS

ULOR

I responded, later, because of course I was really really busy.

Quote:

Ulor,

What!!!???

I don't understand! This is awful.

I am trying to get a hold of my assistant now, since he is the one that actually made the payment, to correct the situation.

Is Port Harcourt far from where you live? Did it take you long to get there? How did you travel?

I ask only because perhaps I could get some additional money added on for your expenditures. Please include the details.

I will email you as soon as I know anything.

-Wanda

IP checks out to Port Harcourt.

Then another email to the "MG" agent...

Quote:

I WENT TO A MONEY GRAM AGENT OUTLET IN PORT HARCOURT TO RECEIVE MY FUNDS. THEY SAID THAT THE REFERENCE NUMBER IS NOT CORRECT.

PLEASE REVIEW THE SENDERS PAYMENT OF THE MONEY $1000 USD BY WANDA GRELIN OF THE MONEY GRAM REFERENCE NUMBER 74136161, AND GIVE ME THE CORRECT REFERENCE NUMBER, SO THAT I CAN RECEIVE THE FUNDS.

THE ACCES CODE IS
Access code: 12823228141005827806

Sender's first name: Wanda

Sender's last name: Gremlin

Receiver's first name: xxxx

Receiver's last name: Ulor

THE MONEY GRAM REFERENCE NUMBER IS 74136161.

PLEASE I WOULD LOVE YOU TO GET BACK TO ME WITH THE CORRECT REFERENCE NUMBER, SO THAT I WILL CASH THE FUND.

I emailed saying that if he gave me the correct number of miles from his home to Port Harcourt, I could perhaps get him some extra money.
He made the journey home, then this:

Quote:

Dearest Wanda, thanks for your reply. I just came back from Port Harcourt now. It was a far journey. 125 miles. I left around 7: AM in the morning and came back around 6:30 pm. I was forstrated and disapointed. I spent a lot of my little money. Around $20 on my travel expense. Someone even helped me assist in paying up my last travel fee. Any amount you can add for me, you can add. God will bless you abundantly. But please help me so that i receive the correct Reference Nö and funds either via Western Union or money gram so that i can cash it tomrrow.

Wish I could've been a fly on the wall.

This was my first little safari action, so I am pleased that I even got him out there.