I Miss Marriage Proposals And African Princes On MyLot!

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In the early years of my online life marriage proposals used to find their way to my e-mail account. How that was possible I’ve never understood. Where did they get my address from? Some years ago I was on a language learning site to learn Turkish. One day I found a marriage proposal in my Private Message box by an American pilot who knew that I was the right one for him. He described his positive characteristics in detail. If only half of what he wrote was true, he was a real catch. Yet, I didn’t get hooked. I already have a husband and polygamy is forbidden in my country. :-( But even if I had been single and desperately looking for a husband, I wouldn’t have fallen for him. I had read the wonderful novel ‘I Do Not Come To You By Chance’ by the Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani in which the Nigerian marriage scam business is described and woven into a story. Now, what about African Princes? Not surprisingly, they were also often from Nigeria. They wrote that they had come by a great amount of money - they didn’t want to go into details from where and how but hinted at the fact that the whole affair wasn’t quite legal. They urgently needed a bank account abroad where they could transfer their millions of dollars to and had come to me assuming that I would help them. Of course, I would benefit from my cooperativeness. I could expect a generous percentage of the sum they’d park in my account. Yeah, yeah, and we still believe in Father Christmas - as the Germans say. I remember that some years ago a European who had got such an offer answered and pretended to be interested. He wanted to find out all the tricks on the way which, of course, would finally lead to an emptying of his bank account. Pity that I don’t remember the details and how I can find the exchange of letters which he put online. As if that were not enough - I (by chance it was always me who answered the phone) don’t even get phone calls anymore from fresh-voiced (is that a word?) young men who want to talk me into buying shares of wheat at the Canadian stock market. Is there an international communication service which spreads the news that a certain German woman is ‘a hard nut’ (another idiomatic expression) and can’t be cracked so that the international crook union has given up on me? --- Please note: This experience has *nothing* to do with myLot as one member assumed! The title is meant to be funny !! ---- The photo is from the net. It shows a man from Ghana who lives in Germany and works in a supermarket. In his spare time he is the King of a place in Ghana. But that’s another story.