{"id":151,"date":"2003-03-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/03\/05\/los-angeles-california-21\/"},"modified":"2003-03-05T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-06T07:00:00","slug":"los-angeles-california-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/03\/05\/los-angeles-california-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who responds to an e-mail like this one???  I&#8217;d almost like to send out fifty thousand copies just to see what sort of person writes back:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This sum of US$6,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank&#8230; According to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim this fund.  Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foriegner to stand in as the next of kin to Mrs. Ann Barbara Myers&#8230; The money will be paid to you for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to Nigerian bank scams the recent spam harvest also includes numerous stock tips, opportunities to enlarge a prominent body part &#8220;safely and naturally&#8221;, e-mails from moral and upstanding women wanting me to visit their web sites, and my personal favorite, the chance to buy &#8220;Affordable <i>Califirnia<\/i> Health Insurance&#8221;.  Unfortunately e-mail spam can&#8217;t be handled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/maddox.xmission.com\/junk_the_junk.html\">same way as junk mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who responds to an e-mail like this one??? I&#8217;d almost like to send out fifty thousand copies just to see what sort of person writes back: &#8220;This sum of US$6,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank&#8230; According to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/03\/05\/los-angeles-california-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Los Angeles, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}