Sometimes those spurious e-mails are very convincing, and I've actually wondered if my good friends are really in deep trouble in some youthful hostile in Karjackastan.

If I ever am in such trouble, say in a revisit to the Gurage tribal region of Ethiopia, I hope my good friends here at Mudcat wire me money, lots of it! But only if I provide my secret password (PM for secret password).

Cheerily,
Charley Noble