Hiead's BYOND website

Following is an e-mail I just received in response to the quoted e-mail that follows it, which further quotes the initial e-mail. I'll colorize the text in key areas.

Hello My Dear,

I just received your mail. I can assure you that nothing stupid will happen in this business either now or later. I am a Christian and a man with good reputation, I have never involved in any misconduct or do anything that will tarnish my image or the image of my family. I can not afford to involve myself in something that is not legal even it involves Millions of Dollars because I am a God fearing man, so I want you to be re-assured that everything have already worked out once you follow my instructions and advise accordingly. I want you to be assured that this deal is not an experiment but a deal that is guaranteed to a 100% success, on your interest in helping me I assure to offer you 35% in this transaction. I got your contact in an internet address listing while searching for an honorable and legitimate person to successfully conclude this deal with. You do not know the deceased account holder and neither do I know him but with proper and legal certified certificates/documents you will be legally declared and made the next of kin and beneficiary of his and all his estate/all he has got as he has no known living relative, anything short of legal process. I will not be a part of it.

I am married and blessed with four children (3 boys and a girl) and I live at our banks staff quarters here in London. My first son is 25yrs old and he is an Engineer and my wife is a lecturer in the university. Once more I want to assure you that this money is already ours as long as you act according to my dictates/instructions and I am also assuring you the eventual successful conclusion of this deal before the next 7 to 10 working days. My decision to contact a foreigner/you is for us to claim and invest this money overseas through the release of this fund in your name as the new Beneficiary to the late Depositor because I cannot claim the money as a common bank worker.

The deceased account holder Mr. Martin Cole until his death was a foreigner and an American citizen; he has no known wife, children or relations. In my next email, I will be attaching a copy of his death certificate which I asked my lawyer to go to the death registry to secure some of months ago when I found out that the deceased has no beneficiary/next of kin, and also I will be sending a copy of his last updated statement of account and a scanned copy of my international passport to show and prove that this is a deal that is guaranteed to a 100% success. I will want you to confirm to me a copy of your valid identity, either international passport or driver's license for my security and that of my money as the amount of money involved is very large £25,549,250.00 (Twenty five Million five Hundred and fourth nine Thousand two Hundred and fifty British Pounds) is about $50,688,539.99 USD. I will also need your full personal information i.e.

Full Name:

Address:

Phone:

How old are you?

What is your core Occupation?

Are you married or Single?

Have you handled this kind of amount or anything close before?

I will not want this deal been discussed on our official telephone so I will give you my personal mobile phone number as soon as you confirm your willingness to assist me legally and officially conclude this deal. On the confirmation of the identity, I will then release all the information on the money and the final process for the release/transfer of the money to you for safe keep and further investment.

I will call you to give you more information as soon as you confirm your working telephone number/residential address. I once more want you to know that legal documents and certificates will be secured to back up this deal and thereby make it very legal, and also as a banker on the ground I want you to know that I will personally see that all aspects of risk is eliminated by destroying all information pointing to you or myself as soon as approval and eventual transfer is concluded. You will agree with me that this deal can only be termed and concluded a success when and unless legal certificates are secured and used in the application of the release of the money in your name, which you will also agree with me will clear this money from all criminal sources and I want you to know that anything short of legal proceedings I will not partake in it.

Lastly, all further correspondence should be via this private and secure email address, I promise to give you more information as soon as I get your full name, telephone and fax numbers with contacts addresses. I await your earliest response no matter your decision.

I remain your partner,

Mr. David Graham

> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 04:35:52 -0400
> From: xhiead@gmail.com
> To: david.graham@msn.com
> Subject: Re: My Dear Friend.
>
> Dude how much is that in like American Dollars? What about Yen?
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Mr. David Graham wrote:
> >
> >
> > My Dear Friend,
> >
> > Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal
> > ethics. May I introduce myself as Mr. David Graham a staff member in the
> > accounts management section of the bank here in London, One of our accounts
> > with holding balance of £25,549,250.00 (Twenty five Million five Hundred and
> > fourth nine Thousand two Hundred and fifty British Pounds) has been dormant.
> > From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a
> > foreigner who died long time ago. Since then nobody has done anything as
> > regards the claiming of this money as he has no family member who is aware
> > of the existence of either the account or the funds. Information from the
> > National Immigration also states that he was single on entry the country. I
> > have confidentially discussed this issue with one of the top officials in
> > the bank and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with.
> >
> > We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of
> > the deceased and have the funds released to you after due processes have
> > been followed.
> >
> > This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is
> > legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any
> > other Illegal act.
> >
> > On your interest, let me hear from you.
> >
> > Warmest Regards,
> >
> > Mr. David Graham.

The latter bold word clearly identifies this man as not being from London! Therefore, I must conclude that he is Nigerian, because "regardless of the country or countries mentioned in the letter -- even countries located outside of Africa -- the fraudsters are usually Nigerian."

What was my response to this e-mail, you may wonder?

furreal tho we gotta keep teh bacon on a short stick wit dis one. how
many years ninja are you and how you gonna get me my beach house i
want a lot but pro

I'm not going to lie: I love energy drinks. I know, they're not good for you. I don't care, they just taste great.

Anyways, I've noticed lately that the cans have been making subtle warnings, and so I've been slightly pushing them to test them out. Here are my recent two:

Venom Black Mamba

This drink I had for the first time on Monday. It comes in a nice-sized, resealable can (it's not intended for you to drink in one sit), and the label on the back says not to drink more than 3 a day, or something like that. If I had a can with me, I'd quote it exactly. I had 4 on Monday.

Monster BFC

The "BFC" stands for "Big Fuckin' Can" and it is. It stands at a whopping 32 ounces (think: the size of 4 Red Bulls). I tried it for the first time today. You can find info on a related can here, but it's for a Monster "Heavy Metal" BFC; what I had was a 32 oz. can of the regular Monster BFC. Since I just had it today, I still have the can on me; here's the label:

Yeah, you know what "BFC" stands for... No, you shouldn't try to chug it (We know you can, just don't.) Instead kick back and enjoy the Biggest Baddest Energy Drink on the planet, in the biggest effen can we could find. Wimps, Health Nuts, and Busy Bodies need not apply.
Recommended use: 1 Big Can per day.

...and I just chugged my second one for the day. Not dead yet, but I can sense a headache coming on. =P

In my previous post, I mentioned my difficulties removing Norton 360 from my new laptop computer. I finally got it uninstalled, and I might have just edited the former post if the absurdity of this whole thing didn't seem to require a new post in itself.

Every time I ran the Norton 360 uninstaller, it would spend 5-10 minutes moving some progress bar, get to the point where it was full, and then completely halt (I know because I left it there for hours at one point). Not only that, but the uninstaller's X button being disabled meant that it had to be aborted via the Task Manager.

I probably tried 10-15 times of using the uninstaller on my machine to get rid of the damn thing (the "Decrapifier" didn't work, either, since it just launched Norton 360's uninstaller), to no avail. So, I did what any crafty consumer would do these days, and I just Google'd it. I scrolled down through the various hits, until I found one with a description I could connect with:
"Dec 2, 2007 ... I almost consider norton 360 like adware as it always shows up at boot asking me to purchase. You would think they would make uninstalling ..."

The description tipped me off that the person was discussing on a forum his difficulty in uninstalling Norton 360, so I dove in and found a very straightforward post, which pointed me to the Norton Removal Tool --- essentially, it's the thing that Symantec supplies because they make such shoddy spyware software in the first place, they require end-users to look up and find some special tool to do the job of their uninstallers.

'Tis also worth mentioning that the first Google hit would have led me to this tool, but I didn't connect so well with the short description, so I visited the forum first. =)

That said, if any of you have a bad case of Norton, pay a visit to http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/ 2005033108162039 and be cured!

So I graduated last Friday. Cool, no more high school, on to college! Cool, graduation parties---a bit of fun with these guys before I probably never see them again. Really cool: graduation gifts!

Went to my dad's house yesterday, and found that there were some gifts waiting from me. Something like this:

First, from my dad's sister (someone I've met once as a baby, and will be meeting again at the end of this month), I got a silky "4-leaf clover plant," a cool gift considering my dad is probably entirely Irish, an iron for pressing clothes (goodbye wrinkles?), and an 8.0 megapixel camera. Sweet deal, have to make sure I thank her when I see her in a few weeks.

Next, from my dad and his girlfriend, a Sony Vaio laptop w/ Windows Vista Ultimate (200GB HD, 2GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo processor), a couple of 512MB memory sticks (for my desktop, which should put me up to 2GB for that now), and some rechargeable AA batteries (for the camera). I'm posting from the laptop now while installing FF3 rc2. I don't care much for Vista, but it's bearable I suppose as long as the system specs are well-off enough to handle it. My only real gripe with the thing so far is all of the junk software it came with, which included a 60-day trial to Norton 360 (I've tried unsuccessfully to uninstall it several times), and a lot of AOL software that I don't want.

Kudos to them, now it's time for me to get my laptop running up to my own standards (I'm leaving the Bad Vista sticker on the page because I still think it's bad, regardless of whether or not I care enough to remove it from the laptop). =)

So, sometime last night Firefox alerted me to the available update, which turned out to be the FF3 release candidate. I downloaded it, and shortly after my router crapped out on me, so I restarted my computer (which I don't do often enough), and went to bed.

Fast forward to me getting home from school and deciding to launch the new Firefox install. It loaded in seconds, whereas the previous beta would sometimes take as much as 5-10 minutes to come up. I'm just really glad that whatever was doing that got sorted out somewhere in the update.