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So apparently some guy from South Africa hates me now (Strange Email thread)
Vic
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This may not be worthy of its own thread, but nevertheless I felt I had to share this story with someone.
It was a few days ago that I recieved the following strange mail. We will call the sender Johan.
It puzzled me because I could think of no explanation for it. It seemed absurd that someone had recieved my email by mistake and believed my name to be Olga, but I saw no other possible motive except for the remote possibility that it was some kind of obscure joke. Today I showed it to a couple of friends, and their immediate reaction was that I had to send an email to mess with the guy. I knew it was a bad idea, but I figured that it would be harmless enough and so sent this email:
At this point I still believed that this was probably some kind of odd joke. I got the following reply:
Ok, so this was obviously a real person. I decided that it would not be fair for me to risk this persons business by pretending to be Olga, so I sent the following email.
This caused a reply in Afrikaan. How he made the leap of Not Olga=South African I do not know, and believing it at first glance to be Dutch I tried to translate it from Dutch, only recieving parts of the message. At this point me and my friends checked out what countries has R as a currency and decided that in all likelyhood the sender lives in South Africa. A google search found me his myspace page, which I will not share here.
This did not go down well.
I have decided to not email him further as of now. I realize that I acted like a douchebag throughout the conversation, but it all seemed so unlikely and absurd that I could not take it seriously. His apparently shaky grasp of english did not help either.
How likely am I to get assassinated by South African hitmen? And has anyone recieved any odd emails lately?
It was a few days ago that I recieved the following strange mail. We will call the sender Johan.
Johan wrote:Olga
My suggestion is that the Trustees negotiate with dr Minne as follows:
Waterproofing to fix the current problem is 2.5% of the quotaion to do waterproofing of the roof. 7.5% is upgrading of his uinit. Therefore of the R10k he has to pay R7.5k and the Trustees R2.5k.
Regards
Johan
It puzzled me because I could think of no explanation for it. It seemed absurd that someone had recieved my email by mistake and believed my name to be Olga, but I saw no other possible motive except for the remote possibility that it was some kind of obscure joke. Today I showed it to a couple of friends, and their immediate reaction was that I had to send an email to mess with the guy. I knew it was a bad idea, but I figured that it would be harmless enough and so sent this email:
Me wrote:I have forwarded your information to the trustees and they agreed that your calculations are reasonable.
Can you give a set date for the work to begin?
Best regards,
Olga
At this point I still believed that this was probably some kind of odd joke. I got the following reply:
Johan wrote:I can only give you a set date when your negotiations with dr Minne is completed and he has accepted your proposal.
Regards
Johan
Ok, so this was obviously a real person. I decided that it would not be fair for me to risk this persons business by pretending to be Olga, so I sent the following email.
Me wrote:I fear I must be honest with you johann, I am not the Olga you seek. I found the possibility that the mail you sent was an honest mistake was so unlikely that I assumed it was some kind of elaborate prank.
You might find it helpful to double check the email adress you used.
Regards
Not Olga
This caused a reply in Afrikaan. How he made the leap of Not Olga=South African I do not know, and believing it at first glance to be Dutch I tried to translate it from Dutch, only recieving parts of the message. At this point me and my friends checked out what countries has R as a currency and decided that in all likelyhood the sender lives in South Africa. A google search found me his myspace page, which I will not share here.
Johan wrote:Victor,
Hoekom so bitsig?
Ek het niemand aangespreek nie, doodgewoon gereageer op die epos wat ek ontvang het met 'n reply.
Was daardie epos enigsins vir my bedoel?
Ek onttrek my van enige verdere betrokkenheid by die dak van eenheid 44.
Johan
Me wrote:Bitter? I assure you that I had no ill intentions, though I apologize for my charade earlier.
I could not quite interpret your email, though it appears to be in Dutch. Whatever your message was I assure you I will not involve myself further in your business
This did not go down well.
Johan wrote:Victor,
Funny that suddenly you think Afrikaans to be Dutch.
If you are trying to create enemies, you are succeeding. So, get lost with your sarcasm.
I shall not reply to any further emails and I shall not what so ever be involved in any aspect of the waterproofing of the roof of unit 44.
Johan
I have decided to not email him further as of now. I realize that I acted like a douchebag throughout the conversation, but it all seemed so unlikely and absurd that I could not take it seriously. His apparently shaky grasp of english did not help either.
How likely am I to get assassinated by South African hitmen? And has anyone recieved any odd emails lately?
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ok
exciting story but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-FC3DLKwc
I didn't mean to be, it just sort of happened. I'd like to apologize but I am afraid I will only make him angrier.
"900¤ DUMB ASS IT DOESENT DO SHIT"
Don't know the guy, not on any of my other friends friend list's.
Go go angry people.
That's something.
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I'm interested in in the story of Unit 44 now.
forever that is what you are
a toilet seat that smokes a cigar
The end
I know! I am curious what is going to happen when the people that contacted him about it start wondering where their damn repair man is.
I should have told him that I am the exile prince of Sweden in need of a bank account to transfer my millions of R into.
Unit 44 is where the Roswell aliens are stored.
Unit 44 is where Jimmy Hoffa's body is buried.
i could only take 30 seconds of this, is there keyboard cat in the end?
and is it as awesome as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAepgZ5iM5k
You suck.
Yeah, most of the time Mr. Jenkees is too awesome for me to handle in one sitting as well.
South African currency is Rand and (I believe) it's doing quite poorly. Millions of Rand is probably not going to be a big deal.
Meanwhile, I'm strangely curious about what's going to happen here. It's like, did you just weigh into something that's actually critically fucked up someone's unit/apartment? It appears that Johan's response in Afrikaans assumes that you were dicking him but that you are involved somehow. I'm not sure Johan actually comprehended that you're just some person from the internet. Also, it's unlikely that Johan has a poor grasp of English (he may not type well in it, but I would bet dollars to donuts he can speak it well). Wiley, those South Africans are.
My mom got a scam email once and she was shocked at the grasp of English apparent