The work I do here important, and I’ve always hoped that someday, if I worked hard enough, and produced enough clever articles and research, that I’d finally get invited into the exclusive club of climate cash that supposedly the rest of the skeptics are getting. I’ve felt left out, and I thought perhaps because my blog has a funny name that has nothing to do with climate was the reason I never got invited.
Well those days are over. My ship has just come in, and I’m now flush with the promise of cash from the biggest oil company in the world. Yes, that one, Exxon-Mobil.
I’m was so relieved when the notice came in email today.
I’m going to buy a new Tesla roadster, and get “WUWT” license plates to annoy my liberal friends. Then I’m going to buy Kenji a diamond studded dog collar and a barrel of those pupperoni snacks he likes so much, then take the wife and kids on a world wide tour.
Life is good thanks to Exxon-Mobil.
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It always amazes me oil companies can make any money at all , given the 10’s of millions of people are on their pay role , after all what other reason can there be for these people being AGW skeptics 😉
Khalid bin Hassan? I prefer to work with his cousin, Hassan ben’ Sobah! (for a long time now!)
Smokey says:
October 12, 2011 at 10:29 am
“George E. Smith says”:
“‘So I always wondered just what the hell the ‘Ship of the Desert’ was.’
“Camels are known as ships of the desert. They’re filled with Arabian sea men. ☺”
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Your joke may be correct. This quotation (ugh!) is supposedly from the teaching of the Ayatolla Khomeini (What a guy!!!):
[SNIP: Anton, this bit is so wrong on so many levels I hardly know where to begin. The subject matter is inappropriate for this blog, it does not belong in this thread, and it is designed to denigrate a religion that is in many ways admirable. Please don’t try to post stuff like this again. -REP]
Done Gone Galt says:
October 12, 2011 at 11:14 am
… yet another person with my last name and a lot of money has died. I blame assassins from an extremist splinter group of the Illuminati
I didn’t do it. The main branch respects the Galt family – although we never did find out who your cousin John is. Lately we’ve been using tweezers to deal with splinter groups. Of course, we’re all extremists (Cainsians) now.
Join the crowd! I’m amazed that they can offer this to:
What amazes me is how the notice manages to find it’s way into everyones mailbox.
Whats sad, is that if the recipients name was Hansen, Mann, Trenby or Jones, and the sender was UNLoadsamoney
it would probbly be genuine
Dr Mr Hassan,
Thank you for your generous offer of 1.35 million dollars but General Mbeke from Nigeria is sending my account 4 million in gold so I will have to decline your offer. Our dollar isn’t doing so good these days and I feel that gold will be a better investment.
Thank you
Now I’ve got your money. Mehehehe!
Next will be the offer from ‘Shell’ based in Nigeria, but remarkably without a Shell corporate email address. The CAGW people may not have quite worked out yet, but the scammers of this world are sharp as.
Bouldersolar says: “As a Tesla owner in Boulder Colorado…” When do you drive your Tesla? In Minnesota we have two seasons: winter and road construction.
Wow! You’re up there with astrophysicist Willie Soon. Well done.
As a curious aside, I do sometimes wonder if whoever bankrolled Soon’s little project on mercury weren’t very clear about the whole thing, and after they got the copy whether they were sat scratching their heads over why he’d written something about mercury with a small ‘m’, and not Mercury with a capital ‘M’. Baffling. Oh well.
Clearly you are a bunch of sceptics, why would you not believe that Exxon.Mobil has a grant reward programme? I wonder will Gavin apply?
Hmmm… strange coincidence.
Does the Union of Concerned Scientists sell their member list to email marketeers? If the email could be traced back to UCS… Now THAT would be a hoot.
Do you have to submit your credit card details in your reply?
You’re getting money from big oil. Kenji is a concerned scientist. This is going to cause nothing but trouble.
David L. Hagen says:
October 12, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Fascinating. I did not “realize” ExxonMobil was “headquartered” in Malaysia
Whois com.my: No information available on this domain name.
David, each email includes 2 header lines.
1) From:
2) Envelope-From:
The 2nd is only interesting for mailservers and normally not shown to the receiver.
Imagine this.
The scammer writes a letter to someone with a fictive email as the sender. (1)
His mailprogram puts that letter into an envelope and addresses it with his mailserver’s address. (2)
When the email is sent, the server looks at the envelope and thinks, “ah, it’s my customer”, not for reject, opens it and forwards the content, throwing the envelope away.
What YOU get, is the fictive address that could be everything from algore.net to whitehouse.gov.
So the From:-Field doesn’t really show the origin of the email.
Better way is looking at the “Received:”-field that almost always shows the IP from who/where the email was delivered, and get that IP resolved.
Just my 1 Eurocent (2 cents) …
Seriously, I’ve wondered just who’s getting fleeced by this sort of e-mail? I suppose there’s an occasional dummy who falls for one of them I suspect it’s more a way got get money from the people who send the e-mails. They’re told they will get 200 e-mail addresses / names of naive Americans for only $20 in local currency and can buy 2000 names for $200 which they can sell to their friends and relatives at the same rate, thus doubling their money.
Anthony, what did you put in for Occupation? Denialist? 😀
Hey, before you buy that dog collar, email me. I will do something on a low commission, say 2 million, maybe 3. I might even work on that dog design finally. I have a horse and cat design in gem cuts and I think I can tweak the horse cut to look like a dog.
For the whisky tango foxtrots…
http://www.faceting.biz/faceting_photo_gallery/photos/Cut/KittyCZ.JPG
And no, this is not a plug for me. I am too busy to do custom work. My wife has a list and I have run out of excuses not to work on them. And unless I get the Kenji commission, my day job pays better than gem cutting. And since Anthony won, there goes my chance for doing gem cutting full time.
George
Well, at least I was complimented as a person of high moral character when that petroleum minister requested my help — including my account number — in looting his nation’s finances!
Michael D Smith says:
October 12, 2011 at 10:19 am
You lucky Dog!!! (Kenji I mean)
Turns out I’m lucky too! I just found out I have a deceased uncle in Nigeria, and it turns out he was LOADED, man! There’s a chap over there that’s going to help me with it. Yaaaay!!!
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Hey! Leave MY uncle’s dough alone! I think you are making up that relationship. We don’t know you! Anyway, he was my uncle first and I have already paid the lawyer to make sure you and all the other relatives are cut out of the will on technicalities. Heh heh…sure glad I know how things run in Nigeria, sucker!
Duke C. says:
October 12, 2011 at 2:35 pm
If the email could be traced back to UCS… Now THAT would be a hoot.
For that, Anthony would have to C&P the “Received:”-field of the email.
I wouldn’t hold breath that this IP is somewhere near to USC, or can be located at all.
However, a very, very small chance exists to resolve the domain and the zone-c or tech-c responsible person.
I would go for an Abrams M1A2 tank, in stead of a Tesla. Provides much more passive passenger safety, combined with a really impressive fuel consumption per mile 😉
Anyone want to bet on whether or not this post is used in the future to “prove” WUWT is funded by big evil oil?
I agree ha ha ha!
Now, if it was for global warming support research, it would have had a couple more zeros in it.