The other day, I received an e-mail with what I first preceived as a very threatening content (see below). As it turned out the sender had confused me and Nikke’s Index with a Spanish lottery scam setup (probably the Loterie Nationale, El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International or any of their offsets).

The sender might have been a victim of these scammers him/herself, or has a friend or a relative who has. He or she has probably searched for the title of one of these e-mails, and found my site. (Lots of people do.) Most probably, the ironic pitch in my comments hasn’t come through to someone who is really upset and looking for a scapegoat. I guess that is what initiated the threat. But since I don’t think ignorance is an excuse for being rude and to send threatening e-mails, the mail conversation below stays. Read the rest of this entry »