‘Zimbabwean poem’ chain mail

This ‘loving Zimbabwean father’s poem’ shows why the Internet is so ripe for scammers

I got this from a well-meaning friend today. A 15 second scam-scan on Google turned up this - proving this to be just another of the endless chain emails going round the globe. Note: there is no 3 cents to AOL. Nobody is being helped. Nothing is happening except the internet clogging up with more junk.

And it’s been going since 2000.

Ok, so it’s fairly harmless in that it doesn’t do anything bad to any individual. What it is, though, is a litmus test for vulnerability.

Everyone who passes this onwards, swayed by the pathos of the story and rendered uncritical by the appeal for help exposes themselves as ripe for exploitation.

I copy-pasted the link and hit ‘reply-all’ to everyone in this sorry chain.

What’s stupid is that I feel like the bad guy – for spoiling everyone’s dream!

If you remain uncritical in the online world, expect to be exploited.