The past two week I've been receiving messages from an Assamese guy who used to work at the guest house I was staying in in Guwahati. (I've found out that he's since been fired.)
It started with half a dozen missed calls on my phone after I'd just gotten back from a trip to Nagaland. He then left a message asking if I could give him a minute of my time.
When I rang him back, he asked me if I 'knew about a million dollars'. It took a while before he told me that his brother had in his possession a 'US one million dollar note'. He wanted me to see if it was real or a 'duplicate'.
Although novelty million dollar notes are allowed and have been printed out (according to Wikipedia), but none are legal tender. I told him there was no such thing as a 'US million dollar bill', and that you can't have a duplicate of something that isn't real.
A few days ago, I got this second message:
Brow right now i m having 1 million doler... (united kingdom) brow can u seck that note pz.. pz met me...i will go to ur place
[Note: seck means 'check' - 'ch' becomes 's' as a result of influence from Assamese]
It started with half a dozen missed calls on my phone after I'd just gotten back from a trip to Nagaland. He then left a message asking if I could give him a minute of my time.
When I rang him back, he asked me if I 'knew about a million dollars'. It took a while before he told me that his brother had in his possession a 'US one million dollar note'. He wanted me to see if it was real or a 'duplicate'.
Although novelty million dollar notes are allowed and have been printed out (according to Wikipedia), but none are legal tender. I told him there was no such thing as a 'US million dollar bill', and that you can't have a duplicate of something that isn't real.
A few days ago, I got this second message:
Brow right now i m having 1 million doler... (united kingdom) brow can u seck that note pz.. pz met me...i will go to ur place
[Note: seck means 'check' - 'ch' becomes 's' as a result of influence from Assamese]
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