if you haven’t discovered ted.com yet, it’s worth a checkout. there are some super brilliant people talking about their trades and passions which i find inspiring and a great source of ideas.

weird thing is though, the day i signed up i started getting emails from nigerians scammers. well, i don’t know that they’re actually from nigeria, but it’s the classic nigerian scam that they’re trying to set me up for. i am mulling over the idea of completely wasting their time like these guys.

check out the text below:

From Sandra Amed,
Ave 11 Rue de Canal
Abidjan Ivory coast,

Dearest One,

please contact me with my privte email sandra_amed32@yahoo.fr

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. please don’t be offended with this mail as i know not every body will like having such a strange mail in his address, since we have not known each other before, I come across your contact and I prayed over it and ask God to show me someone who is honest and reliable that will help me, I must not hesitate to relate every part of this relationship to you for you to understand me very well, and know how to advise me on these.

My name is Sandra Amed, I am the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs Morgan Amed. who was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan the economic capital of Ivory coast during his time, my father was poisoned on a business trip to sudan and he came back with that sickness that led to his death, My mother died when I was a baby and my father took m

to their credit though, ted.com routes the email to you anonymously so it doesn’t reveal your email address. clearly though, i don’t think these guys have thought about it all that carefully because the ted.com readership are probably a harder market to crack!