Dearest One

For those of you sending emails this way, be advised that if it says "Dearest One" anywhere near the top it gets deleted in about 0.2 seconds. If it makes it past the 0.2 second mark and then says "to inform you" in the first paragraph, then it gets deleted in about 0.5 seconds. If it lingers past the half second mark and a very quick scan reveals any large dollar amounts, it will surely be deleted within one second of having laid eyes on it.

I see that Yahoo! Mail has collected about a thousand messages in the Spam folder which is never, ever checked anymore - sometimes legitimate messages get in there but the volume is now far too high to go through and pick out the real ones, so if you've sent me mail and I haven't responded, yours probably went in there.

Why can't the Yahoo! spam filters put these (apparently still successful) Nigerian scam emails in there with the thousands of others that get redirected to the SPAM folder?

I don't know what the monkey picture is all about, but it's from this website and I think it's related.