Colin Bateson has had an email from the future.
“I know you have often mentioned the scourge of unsolicited scam emails in your Examiner column; we all get them and hopefully bin them straight away.
Is this another? I received this email from 200 years in the future and I thought you might like to let your readers know about it.
“May be it came to me because, here at Hade Edge, we are closer to outer space than most of the country.
Or perhaps some intergalactic interference, caused by the Pluto space mission and the Huddersfield University connection, could have something to do with our celestial hero Patrick Stewart standing down as Chancellor.
“As our son used to say as a two-year-old: ‘Bean me up spotty.’ Time to go fire up the De Lorean.”
The email asked Colin to contact a Dutch professor at Huddersfield University and give him the message: “Prepare for take off.
“You must attend the Next Imaginary Party Meeting in Full Moon on July 31 at Hotel Inntel Rotterdam Centre in Rotterdam, as it is written in The History of Tomorrow.
“You have joined a lifetime journey. This message has been typed from Year 2210. Over and out.”
Oo-er, missus.
An internet search discovered this – and several thousand similar emails – come from a chap called Jaime Pozuelo Monfort, currently resident in Madagascar.
He sends them to people he has identified as ‘Expert Dreamers’ who may be able to help in his grand scheme to end global poverty.
Or he could just be attempting to sell his book on economics.
Monfort targets academics at universities around the world.
I have purposely not used the Huddersfield University professor’s name to save him embarrassment and I’m only surprised Jean Luc Picard himself hasn’t been invited to join the Dream Team.
Monfort describes himself as a Time Traveller.
The people he bothers call him one of the world’s worst professional spammers and an internet troll.
You have been warned.
At the first hint of an email from him, fire up the De Lorean and leave the galaxy.
