Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for January 16, 2016

Thanks for that link…hysterical!

I never get emails from Nigerian princes. I only get them from guys in the Nigerian department of Insurance.

Hilarious! He has given me the urge to do the same.

You know, it would really suck to be an actual Nigerian prince who desperately needed help getting you money out of the country.

Don’t worry Ed. Even if Rita cuts your salary in half, some politician will find a way to declare you “rich”.

Is Ed a Nigerian prince?

The Ted talk was my inspiration for doing this gag.

The last bit about “job creator” seems rather extraneous and added in as an afterthought. Completely unnecessary. The joke should’ve ended with the “tax bracket” statement. Nice, and succinct.

Love it.

For fun I used to actually reply to some of these emails. Eventually it got boring. Shame I didn’t make a talk about it…

Hey don’t blame lawyers. It was lobbyists and congress that made it taxes that way…

Thanks! LMAO.

Welcome to the 1%. NOW PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE!Love,Hillary

You know, Ed, it might occur to certain people that someone as sedentary as yourself could cease living and it would be days before anyone realized it. Just saying …

Check in again in a month. This is the “collect the check, deposit it, pay us the accounts receivable balance and keep the rest as your commission” bogus check scam. It usually takes 3 weeks for the check to bounce. The real looking money makes it easy to sucker your friends into the scam, too. There are bad check fees, upset friends, and the prince has all of your bank account numbers. Legitimate providers always collect from the customer and pay you your commission; and collects S.S. Medicare, and tax withholdings.

FWIW, the Department of Insurance version is that some guy in the department has to decide what to do with millions left by a person with no heirs, so he’d like to put it into your bank account, then leave the country, and you are supposed to give some back to him. In the end, though, the scam has nothing to do with Nigeria, and the title of the person you are communicating with is irrelevant, too. They could have used any country, or any title. The scam works for the same reason all scams work, not because people know nothing about Nigeria, but because people are greedy. When people think they will get something for nothing, they let their guard down, and become easy prey for scammers.

And, last figures I saw, 90% Fail within 3 years!