Charitable Begging

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record about this: I'm doing the London to Brighton Bike Ride this year on 17th June, and any sponsorship in aid of the British Heart Foundation would be very, VERY gratefully received.

For more information please visit my fundraising page:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/MatthewExley

Many thanks.

Wow, scammers are getting desperate these days...

I got this spam email t'other day:

From: dead <info@dead.com>Subject: dead or aliveDate: 9 May 2012 10:50:36 GMT+01:00
This is the only way I could contact you for now,I want you to be very careful about this and keep this secret with you until I make out space for us to see.
You have no need of knowing who I am or where i am from.I know this may sound very surprising to you but it’s the situation.I have been paid some ransom in advance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employer
It’s someone I believe you call a friend, I have followed you closely for a while now and have seen that you are innocent of the accusations leveled against you.
Do not contact the police or try to send a copy of this to them,because if you do, I will know,and I might be pushed to do what I have been paid to do.Besides,
this is the first time I turn out to be a betrayer in my job.I took pity on you and your kids... That is why I have made up my mind to help you if you are willing to help yourself.

I've been on the internet for a while, I'm pretty jaded. But this one did at least catch my eye. That's a horrible way of trying to scam some money out of someone. Really really horrible. Thankfully better people than I know how to best deal with this sort of wild abuse, and reap the LulZ from it.

Best bit is the numpty's actually left a valid reply-to address plainly visible. And it's got nothing to do with the listed (holding) domain above.

I suppose the positivist's outlook on this would be: Hey, I must be making some sort of impact on the world to justify a contract on me. Right?