Thought I would share this item that I found in my inbox. I get such emails frequently. Casey
Dear friend: I am Jingdong Wind Instrument Factory, is the only production wooden flute 、 metal flute factory in China. At present our product has sold to the American England Australia Germany Spain several countries and areas. Our factory predecessor is the mechanical processing factory, started in 1990 to manufacture the flute, in 1998 started to develop the wooden flute.Now our product basic is complete, including each kind of wooden flute,C# trill flute,Eb flute, each kind of wooden flute headjoint, alto flute headjoint, wooden piccolo, silver flute, silver flute headjoint, each kind of flute case and flute appurtenances.Our product wooden headjoints may need to be resized to fit your flute. We may need to have custom-made the different wooden flute according to the customer.
Our product obtained the world well-known brand flute to speak on another’s behalf everybody’s approval. Moreover we already with the well-known flute, the piccolo company cooperated, provided the service for theirs earlier period manufacture. If you are the flute maker, to produces the wooden flute to be interested, we may provide the earlier period wooden flute body for you the manufacture work.
My factory had two item of products to obtain the national monopoly, an item is the flute body and the flute tail junction device,it is called “ Guodong Chen’s junction”by the professional. an item is the bass B sound foot, this sound is appearing in Maler Fifth Symphony. This patent property rights belong to me. We provide the end product for the seller also to provide the half-finished product made in wooden for the flute manufacturer, by supplies the flute the manufacturer to produce belongs to own wooden flute. If you are interest in our products,please tell me,I will mail our product pictures for you.I hoped we may cooperate!If you have any further questions,please don’t hesitate to contact me. If my mail brings the trouble to you, asks you to forgive.
The mail restores please attaches the original part, in order to inquires.
I especially like the phrase “to obtain the national monopoly”
I also get lots of email from Pakistan trying to sell me all sorts of bagpipe related items, ones from Turkey offering boxwood, and several from Africa offering me blackwood. Some of these are legit no doubt - but despite my refusals of interest, they keep sending them.
Casey, the following may help explain what is probably happening. I suspect the sender does not speak English. They may be using an on-line translator, such as http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html
I copied the following paragraph from your own homepage, translated it into Simplified Chinese, and then from Simplified Chinese back into English again. Here is the result:
Who knows what the first part would have looked like to a Chinese-speaker. Perhaps we shouldn’t judge these people too harshly. Not being English-speakers, they may be unaware of what gibberish such translators produce.
On the other hand, the above method can be a great source of amusement, and excellent for confusing the hell out of others.
Heh heh, “Casey burns the flute” sounds like a good title for a children’s book! You gotta run that lathe slower, Casey!
Another spam I cop regularly are these urgent sales inquiries:
hello sales
i will love to purchase from you but before i can do that i will like to know whether you can ship product’s to Africa and to know more about your market and to also know your mode of payment and i can give you credit card that i issued in the states to charge to make our business faster,so please i will be expecting to hear from you soon for me to place my order ,and the only payment i render is by credit card.
regards
From receiving similar emails, I’ve deduced that there is one gigantic hell of an Irish music scene in Lagos, Nigeria. The streets must be lined with stores carrying Irish flutes, but none of mine.
I tried one of those translators (English to French and back) on an earlier version of my web page. It stated my career thusly:
Casey Burns - maker of the Grooves for the Irish Music
sad to read monopoly of scam by flute maker who is shrill with c# key. open holes on body with fingers too. tradition of irish made by american. please forgive.
send money now.
($1000 usd would be nice for starters)
send this message to 5 people within the next 24 hours and your wishes will surely come true.
Was it on this site or elsewhere that I saw the Chinese bootleg of last Star Wars movie with English subtitiles generated by a computerized translator? Wherever it was, it was ff’in hilarious.
