The second email...

I just received another e-mail from our good Professor. The entire e-mail was just two lines long, and it is a good thing that it was this short, because I would have otherwise been weighed down by the guilt of having wasted more precious time.

It starts off "Dear Charlotte...", and what a wonderful way to start indeed. Geez Professor, if you want to con me, then get my name right at least! The next two lines of the e-mail were just as bad. "here is my H.P : 8XXXXXX . YOU CAN PHONE ME AT ANY TIME ." Why does he have this incessant need to speak to me through the phone? And ouch, what's up with the Caps? Is the man really that desperate? I firmly believe that he is one of the most stupid crooks ever - he makes the Nigerian 419 scammers read like geniuses by comparison, as at least a few know how to capitalise properly.

I remember from our conversation at the fair that the Professor works at UBD, but a thorough check of the JTB telephone directory (which has all the staff at UBD listed) shows that this is not true. Well, of course, he may be newly arrived at UBD, but shouldn't he have been given a campus e-mail account by now? So why is it that he insists on sending me mail through his pitiful account with Yahoo - the very same account that he uses to flirt with divorced women?

I am unsure of what I should do next. Some of you have expressed concern over the fact that the guy knows my real name (although he appears to have forgotten it now), and some minor contact details. I have not written any replies to him yet, so perhaps it is time I write to him and ask him to bugger off. Hmm, I wonder if this will be a bad move.