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So apparently some guy from South Africa hates me now (Strange Email thread)

VicVic Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Social Entropy++
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.
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?

Vic on

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2009
    you're right, that didn't warrant a thread

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    um

    ok

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    You have chosen poorly.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    you're right, that didn't warrant a thread

    exciting story but

    Air on
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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    why you gotta be a dick, vic?

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    You're gonna get raped.jpg

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Posting this because I can.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-FC3DLKwc

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  • VicVic Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    spono wrote: »
    why you gotta be a dick, vic?

    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.

    Vic on
  • LoathingLoathing Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I had some random person add me to their friends list on XBL, and send me the following message:

    "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.

    Loathing on
  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Huh.

    That's something.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Give him your SSN and bank account info so he can start transferring all of his family's money out of whatever crazy war-torn shithole nation he's from. The finders fee will be worth your efforts, I assure you.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I got what I believe to be some person's work report in Greek recently. I would make a thread but my Prefrontal cortex is still undamaged.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Man. Unit 44 is gonna have a leaky roof and it's all your fault.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Man. Unit 44 is gonna have a leaky roof and it's all your fault.

    I'm interested in in the story of Unit 44 now.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I love the fact that he is so upset that he won't get involved with waterproofing poor Olga's unit.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    You are a toilet seat that smokes a cigar
    forever that is what you are
    a toilet seat that smokes a cigar
    The end

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Unit 44 is where dreams go to die.

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  • VicVic Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Man. Unit 44 is gonna have a leaky roof and it's all your fault.

    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.

    Vic on
  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Unit 44 is where dreams go to die.

    Unit 44 is where the Roswell aliens are stored.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Unit 44 is where dreams go to die.

    Unit 44 is where the Roswell aliens are stored.

    Unit 44 is where Jimmy Hoffa's body is buried.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Posting this because I can.

    what?

    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

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    lostwords wrote: »
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Posting this because I can.

    what?

    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.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    lostwords wrote: »
    Macro9 wrote: »
    Posting this because I can.

    what?

    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

    Yeah, most of the time Mr. Jenkees is too awesome for me to handle in one sitting as well.

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  • AmbassadorAmbassador Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Vic wrote: »
    Man. Unit 44 is gonna have a leaky roof and it's all your fault.

    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.

    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.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    So, no Veretas yet?

    My mom got a scam email once and she was shocked at the grasp of English apparent

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