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Ok, THIS one takes the cake…

PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF ARMED FORCES.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Tel/FAX: +xxx xxxxx-xxxxx
REF: FGNXX01XXNGFABJSSAGOV.ZLLN

TO: BENEFICIARY,

PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

We are the financial investigation unit with the office of the President Federal Republic Nigeria. We picked up your file because it handle in a terrible way and I have been given the mandate to contact you by the President and conclude your payment through the Nigeria Account in New York ,U.S.A and through the below information and you are also asked to stop any further communication with whosoever including your partner in Nigeria because we are undergoing an investigation and if anybody is found guilty or having hands in extorting money from you we will arrest him and hand him over to the Funds Investigation Unit, though none of the officials know that we are investigating your file .
Contacts the Account Broker below with your full identification details to enable him start the process of releasing your payment amount.

Do as direct to receive your payment:-
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Email:xxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Washington DC, United States of America

Xxxx Xxxxxx
FOR THE PRESIDENT:
PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YARADUA
PRESIDENTFEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

It’s GOT to be work to sit in front of a computer shooting off mass emails like this day in and day out…. Can someone go over there and find them somethin’ else to do? Maybe take ‘em a hoola hoop or a pogo stick or somethin’?

Jiminy Cricket! It’s an invasion! My notifier just alerted me that ANOTHER one says I HAVE to deposit a whoppin’ $20 into my Bank of America bank account in TWO MINUTES!!! BOSSY, ain’t they?! Is it 8:00 AM over there right now or did they just get back from lunch?! I think it’s safe to assume that one hasn’t ever encountered an American woman face-to-face, don’t ya think?

Maybe by publishing this about both of ‘em, they’ll discover they’re sitting next to each other in one of their “internet cafes”, get into a brawl over territorial rights, and open up a can o’ whoop-you-know-what on each other…hehehe. There! That’s an idea! The WWNWF!

Whistle!!! Hey, YOU!!! Take your hands OFF the keyboard and list’n nup! Look me in tha eye (pic on top right will do)…I’m talkin’ na you…got sumpin’ ‘portant to tell ya!…

WRONG INBOX!!! I don’t HAVE a Bank of America account!

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If you aren’t sure, you might want to pay particularly close attention to any notices you have received recently or may receive in the future about your credit card accounts. According to this article on MSNBC.com, “Credit card companies are tweaking offers and terms in wake of the mortgage debacle”.

Curtis Arnold, the founder of CardRatings.com, is quoted several times in the article regarding changes in interest rates noticed by consumers. I’ve mentioned CardRatings.com before, but I want to give it a plug again because I have found it to provide me with the MOST helpful information about credit cards than any other source of information I have come across.

Since discovering CardRatings.com I’ve learned a number of ways to use credit cards for my benefit and how to save myself a considerable amount of money. If only things like this were taught to us BEFORE being hit with the onslaught of offers in the mail, in department stores, on college campuses, etc., huh? Have adult children or teens in high school that need an education in credit card management and finances? Send them to CardRatings.com, too.

You can find updated information about the best to the worst credit card offers and terms available. There is also a forum with a wealth of information posted by consumers about credit cards, credit/debt management, loan and money tips and more as well as the personal experiences of other consumers with particular credit card companies and banks. I’m sure you will find some very helpful information there to apply to your personal or business situation.

Have you received any of these notices yet? Good news or bad news for you? Are you aware of any other sources of helpful information for consumers about credit cards, credit/debt, etc. that you’d like to share?

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After reading Jonathan Phillips’ blog post, Would You Consider Selling?, I got to wondering how many bloggers, especially Baby Boomers, are blogging not only as a means of producing current income, but how many are taking into consideration ways to earn income from blogging to invest for future retirement? The focus of Jonathan’s question is whether or not you would consider selling your blog if an interested party made an offer to purchase.

If my blog was monetarily successful I would have to consider whether or not keeping a financially lucrative blog would be a better long term investment than selling it and investing the money otherwise. Or, would I reap greater financial benefits for retirement by continuing with the particular blog myself and investing some or all of the residual income produced for retirement? A blog is online real estate and in the offline world wouldn’t you take such into consideration if you sold real estate property that produced income?

I’m not an expert in investing and should’ve made it a point to learn more about preparing financially for retirement a long time ago. So, anything you have to share about this subject will be appreciated. I’m always open to learning so what can you teach others and me about blogging as an investment of some sort?

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