1. It has been a while
That she checks her email
Last thus primarily is because
She cannot afford the cost of daily browsing
2. Secondarily because she has neither
Android phone nor laptop like
Others thus, what she does
Is ensuring that she checks her email monthly
3. Where she lives to where
Cybercafe where she regularly goes
To, to check her email
Is located is about 20 kilometers
4. That cybercafe is the most
Recognized in her state it
Is a place where decent
People go to because they don’t allow
5. Internet fraudsters, anyone suspected to
Belong to the cabal of
Internet fraudsters is usually stopped
From coming to the cybercafe
6. Decent people, people whose consciences
Have not been seared with
Hot iron are those who
Throng the venue to browse
7. They come to check emails
Send messages because they are
Sure of what and whom
They are dealing with
8. The cybercafe is rapidly growing
Other outlets have been opened
By the management to cater
For the increasing customers
9. The first place has been
Filled up and she was
Directed to the second outlet
When she got to there, she finds a free system
10. She logged in and on
Opening her email, she discovers
That she has many messages
But out of the messages
11. One was strange, it was
A congratulatory message from a
Person she did not know
On opening she discovers that
12. The message was a winning
Message according to the sender
Her email address was randomly
Selected out of millions of emails globally
13. And she has won for
Herself $250, 000:00; she could not
Believe her eyes, the message
Was dated three days ago
14. And she was requested to
Contact another email address within
Seven days from the day
The message was sent
15. If she couldn’t reach them
By then she would forfeit
The winning slot. This is
The third day, she said to herself
16. As she decided to reply
The lottery firm through the
Email that has been stated
That she should contact
17. She acknowledged the receipt of
The winning. The secretary of
The lottery group must have
Been online when her message was delivered
18. For she replies her immediately
For she receives the message
Of the secretary 15 minutes after
While still on the system browsing
19. The photos of people who
Have been beneficiaries of the
Lottery group were shared with
Her, with their cheques and cash
20. This was perhaps sent to
Show her that they are
Not fraudsters that they could
Be relied upon they of course
21. Would have known that people
Are not falling for such
Winning notifications again like before
Because of many people who have become
22. Victims of fraudsters, thus people
Are becoming extra careful when
They are browsing now, but
Those photos were sent to build her confidence
23. In the lottery group as they
Also shared their logo and
Other needful things. But someone
Again says, that does not matter
24. For some dubious people could
Also go to that extent
And send messages like that
To win people’s confidence before bolting off
25. She was asked to get across
To the management her means of
Identification, her detailed names and
How she would want to
26. To receive the among she has
Won she did not get
Those means of identification with
Her thus, she left for her place.
27. Got those things required and
Return to the cybercafe the
Following day to scan those
Documents and send to the management
28. Of the lottery group to claim
What she has won. She
Sent her detailed address and
Names as it is on her means of identification
29. She asks that the money be
Transferred into her account because
We are in the age of internet
Transfers and after all what she
30. Won was through the internet
Transferring the money should be
Easy for the management coupled
With the fact that she was not
31. Residing in that country neither
Continent. She was not expecting
Any other thing outside those
Things she has done.
32. As from that moment she
Has been dreaming of the
Money how she would spend
The money.
33. She wants to get android
And laptop at first to
Be able to access internet
Often than before
34. Then she thinks about her
Academics, her parents, siblings, her
Friends. She has started to count
Her chicks before they are hatched.
35. However, when next she would
Open her email, what she
Finds there was the photo
Of ATM card for her
36. The ATM would be sent
To her through courier and
She should send the address
That the management would send it to
37. Some days after the courier
People contacted her that she
Needs to send money for
The transportation of the card
38. Her initial joy was lost
Because the money expected her
To send she cannot even
Raise it in 6 months
39. If she started saving from
That moment. As she was
Thinking about this, she met
One of her friends
40. She narrated what she has
Seen to her. Her friend asks
If she was just receiving
That kind of message
41. When she told her that, that
Was her first time of receiving
Such notifications. She told her
That she has been receiving something
42. Like that for long. And
She has tagged it “internet joy,
Fake joy”. It is like what
Prophet Isiah said in chapter 29 of his book
43. That it is like a person
Who sleeps and dreams and
Finds himself eating in the dream
But when he wakes up behold, he is hungry
44. Such is that kind of
Notifications they are never
Real, thus, do not bother
Thine head about that she said to her.
45. When she left her friend
She started thinking about what she
Said, it is “Indeed Internet Joy,
A world class fake Joy” she said to herself smiling.
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