This is by far the longest scam email I have ever received. Worst still it’s almost perfect English and surprisingly my email service provider didn’t pick it up through its spam filters. I will be having a word with them!
Good day,
Please, do not take this message and information as joke because doing so is at your own peril / detriment. I don’t have much to say here but will make it brief and straight to the point for your quick action. I am sending this confidential message to you in private with utmost fear for my work, life and family.
Reduce is my word for 2018. Whether it’s reducing my time on social, reducing my spending habits or reducing the stuff that I own.
In September 2017, my dear friend Petros Kkolas suggested I watch a documentary on Netflix, titled ‘Minimalism’.
I was hooked, converted, a believer and probably recognised that I’ve always been a minimalist all my life and now I knew for sure.
Doesn’t mean that I behaved like one throughout my life, oh no! I was a shopaholic for most of my life, especially via the internet and of course the seductress Amazon. It’s interesting actually, I asked them if I could see my total spend from when I first started buying from Amazon and guess what? They can’t supply that figure, they said you have to go through each year on your profile and add it up manually.
Not many folks will do that right?!
Well I did and you can see the chart below. Total spend for my lifetime with Amazon is £5555.27. Now you would have thought that my spend in 2017 would be less compared to previous years because I had found Minimalism (September 2017) and yet it is higher compared to the previous 9 years. Oops!
Michael de Groot’s Amazon Spend
Well that was mainly due to some technology spend and it included a scanner, which will assist me in reducing my paperwork by scanning most of it and saving it to the cloud.
If I discount the scanner and some microphone kit for making videos on my smartphone, the spend for 2017 would have amounted to just £74.00, 2nd lowest in the past 9 years.
Just been watching the Netflix mini-series ‘Dirty Money’. Wow I was astounded how many so called legal crooks steal money from us.
Of course most of it covers companies in the USA, but Britain didn’t come off scot-free with the HSBC money laundering on behalf of Mexican drug cartels and terrorist organisations. They only got a $2 billion fine and nobody went to jail, despite the fact that thousands of innocent people died, either by being killed or died because of drugs.
Each episode basically told the same story, which is our greed for money.
Millions and Billions of dollars are changing hands on this planet illegally and most of us are the victims. In essence if we are kept poor and needy, sick and in fear, we won’t make any noise. This is exactly where governments want us.
So ensure that companies always need to strive for growth, which means they have to continue to sell to us consumers, who need to keep buying and stay in debt. That way they can continue to exercise control over us.
