Just received this in my email.

European Fraud Investigation Committee
Attention: Sir/ Madam,

We recently arrested a group of West African / Ghana, Benin and Nigerian Internet scam Artists in London and we have reasons to believe you have been one of their numerous victims. A thorough search of the computers arrested with the individuals and their confessions during interrogation has revealed to us that you paid certain sums of money to these fraudsters via Western Union.

These individuals have been wrongfully informing a lot of people via email on the internet that they have huge sums of money to be transferred from a foreign Bank Account. Also, they have confessed to loan scams, the UK National Lottery scam and Euro Millionaire Lottery Scams and have been demanding money from innocent people for purported claims of the said money.

They operated with a fake Security firms and Bank and courier and a lot of people have fallen victims to them in the past 3 years. One of them was arrested recently when they attempted to defraud an American citizen of $5.2m USD by the London Police and the Interpol working together to break the scam ring. Our Investigation revealed that you paid out some money to these individuals over a period of time. We are happy to inform you that you can now claim back your money as well as your compensation.

We have already initiated proceedings on your behalf with the West African / Nigerian Government to ensure that as a genuine scam victim, you will not only recover your lost money but also you will be compensated for the financial and emotional stress you and your family may have passed through because of the scam.

Our Internal Audit Bureau has estimated that you are eligible to claim a total of $200,000.USD from the Fraud Compensation Committee set up by the West African / Nigerian Government to ensure that properly identified scam victims are paid and adequately compensated from the $3bn allocated compensation loan from the World Bank.

This Fund is directly under the watchful eye of both European Fraud Investigation Committee/ British Intelligence Unit to avoid misappropriation or embezzlement of fund. Please respond back to us immediately to ensure that your details are confirmed as being eligible to receive your compensation within 72 hours of receiving this notice;

All compensation requests are attended to strictly on a first-come first-serve basis. As soon as I hear from you, I will direct you properly on how to acquire the compensation fund without further ill-treatment.

To acquire your compensation, Contact our Public Relations Officer Below.

Name: Mr. Henry Green
Email: admin@europeanfraudinvestigation.co.cc
Public Relations Officer
European Fraud Investigation Committee
London United Kingdom (Great Britain)

omg the nigerians are using REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY NOW!!!
I really want to applaud them. Not only is the email in perfect english, but it also sounds rather believable. There is no "please send some money now so we can send more to you later". Only... "call us" which is totally enticing. I'm REALLY tempted to reply them just for the heck of it...

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Angry linguist nerd alert! Seriously some nerds get worked up over the dumbest things. I know i do too sometimes but not to the extent of making an 8 minute video. I'm still gonna pronounce it as Ee-Van-Jee-Leon, cos English is a flexible language. Po-tay-to, Po-tah-to. Besides, if the word "evangelist" has been bastardized already by the English, why not "Evangelion" as well, which I still think is a made up word.

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Ahhh the X-Men cartoon series. One of the best things about growing up in the 90s. Wasn't as good as Batman, but who can forget that awesome opening theme...



wait what?



WTF???

seriously Japan, what was wrong with the existing opening theme? I mean yeah, the reworked opening has better animation values but do you really have to animefy the X-Men? whats wrong with this?



neh-neh-neh neeeeh neh-neh etc...

this is almost as bad as what they did to the powerpuff girls...



Ohhhhh fuck...

I need to soak my eyeballs in acid now...

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whoa blogger is severely screwing up.

anyway haven't posted in a daaamn long while. lots of stuff happened, law camp (which was fun) and other stuff like float building etc.

so yeah now that school starts i can officially say that school sucks.

urg why must everyone in this batch of law students be such horrible muggers??? i feel pressured to study. also I've been studying everyday? doing readings for every tutorial (i've given up on reading for lectures). I still dont really understand the subjects cos i tend to zone out during lects. esp the impt topics like tort and contract. gg to me.

so yeah ive been drowning in work but... i think after the 2nd week ive sort of gotten used to it.

and when i go to work it'll prob be worse...

damn.

im more determined now to be a comic book writer lol

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still alive is an awesome song. it's awesomeness goes up by a factor of 2 when there is a flaming equaliser panel. it's awesomeness goes up by a factor of 10 when u've played portal and understand just what the hell the lyrics mean.

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was back from japan then from law camp ages ago. both were really fun. i would post photos but im always so lazy. my priorities r whacked.

they proceed as follows:

surfin the intertubes
bumming around
working on the webcomic
bumming around
even more bumming around
reading
bumming
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...
...
finally transfering songs into my iphone
do something abt pictures
dlding and watching all the shows i said i'd dld/watch
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achieving world peace

I don't even know where gaming fits in there any more. somehow or another ive just lost interest in gaming. I genuinely fear for my geek cred. I'm afraid im getting so old that video games no longer hold any allure to me. or maybe I've just switched alliances to comic books, but then again im not downloading green lantern or anything so yeah... who knows WHAT i do with my spare time? I know I dont.

I guess i intended to channel whatever energy i had into the webcomic/unicycling but I haven't touched the unicycle in weeks and can't really seem to find the motivation to write. only lettering has kept me plodding along.

also there's the whole problem of readership. not sure how im gonna advertise. maybe a shoutbox on the site maybe a good idea? and arrrgh now the archive page has some problem...

it could be just my end though. my internet has been screwy especially when it comes to video streaming. i think my desktop is just way too addled with countless trojans and spyware for it to function properly. It's like my PC has gotton brain damage after getting too many STDs.

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off to japan. cya'll in a week.

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THE SKY IS GREEN BECAUSE OF POLLUTION
Yet the picture is still beautiful. Therefore pollution is beautiful.

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joshua chin
NUS law
21 years old
April26 1988
Singapore