I’ve inherited the duty of checking a general email account as part of my job. Of course, this general email account has been in existence, and liberally posted to the web, since the early 1990s and as a result receives a constant stream of spam. Oddly enough, the throwaway webmail address I set up in the mid-90s receives mostly pharma-spam, whereas the work account receives a lot of 419 “Nigerian” scam spam. One amusing message from today appeals to faith-based charity:

DONATION FOR THE LORD.
Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein.I want a church that will use this fund to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.