Money, Money, Money

Everyday I get junk mail from a variety of people offering me money: usually around 30 e-mails a day in my junk mail. This can range from someone who says they have a terminal illness and no-one to leave the money to, to the Swiss lottery announcing I have won a competition that I never entered, to someone posing as Microsoft or even on one occasion Bishop Desmond Tutu!! Today I was offered £156m that is lying unclaimed in some bank account somewhere. Sometimes these offers make me laugh, but sometimes they make me sad.  Who comes up with such terrible stories of terminal illness, sons who have died in Iraq, or money that came from Saddam Hussein? Who can be so evil as to prey on the desperate? It is after all only the desperate who would respond to such obviously ridiculous offers. Someone will end up losing what little they have becasue they will be desperate enough to believe it is true. There was a story of a lady recently who gave £60k to someone she had never met because he said he loved her and needed her help. It is sad to know that people are so lonely and vulnerable that they will believe anything that makes them feel a little better. There are so many people in the world who are lonely, and sadly there are people who just want to profit from that. Befriend someone today and make their lives a little happier!!