The Other Press Mailbag The following email appears exactly as it was sent to us (honest, we didn’t have to add the nice stuff in or anything); it has not been edited for content or style. We here at The Other Press encourage you to keep writing in to our Mailbag—how else are we going to know how great we are? Warm fuzzies and prickly pears can be delivered to othereditor@yahoo.ca Dear Other Editor, I am Mr.Samson Igbo, a consulting auditor, Ned Bank plc, Johannesburg-South Africa. During the-course of my auditing work with my client bank late last year, I discovered an account worth 25,400,000.00 opened in the bank in 1998 by a Foreigner, a German, Late Mr.Andreas Schranner,who died in a plane crash.([). It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Mr. Andreas Schranner’s next of kin known to the bank, according to the immigration data avail- able to the bank,t hat I contacted you to stand in as the next of kin. I have secretly discussed this matter with a close confident attorney whom I must involve in order to assist us produce legal back-up doc- uments which would substantiate claims/position of next of kin and also enable us have a smooth and successful transfer of the fund to any foreign bank account which you are going to nominate. All validating and authenticating documents to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. We have secured from the probate registry, an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased bene- ficiaries and that makes this business 100 percent Risk Free. The sharing ratio after completion of trans- fer will be thus: 60 percent for me, 35 percent for you, and 5 percent for expenses. Kindly indicate your interest to enable us, with your assistance, move the fund to the banks off- shore clearing houses in Europe. Please note March 2/2005 that for the purposes of confidentiality, all fur- ther correspondence should be through my alternative email: s_igbo2005@yahoo.com Accept my warm regards as I await your response. Sincerely, Mr.Samson Igbo Dear Other Press Editor, I just wanted to thank you for making my Thursday evening class bearable. I don’t know how Id stay awake if I didn’t have you to entertain me. And one time you even shel- tered me from the rain when I ran to my car after class. Thanks for that, too. I don’t know if you print letters that aren’t really about anything, but I don’t have any complaints or anything like that. I just thought you should know that there really are people out there who are listening to what you guys have to say. I’m going to miss you after I graduate this summer. Keep up the good work! —A Reader. Dear A, Ah shucks, stop, you’re making us blush. Thanks for the kind words, and don’t worry, you can always visit us at www.theotherpress.ca after you graduate. —Amanda Aikman, Managing Editor, The Other Press e www.theotherpress.ca |