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Nigerian Scam [MultiFormat]
eBook by Richard A. Lovett
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eBook Category: Science Fiction AnLab Award Runner-up
eBook Description: Ryan Mann is bored. With two broken collarbones, there are a lot of things he can't do, including tying his shoes and ... well, you know what we're talking about. One thing he can do is work a keyboard. So when he gets a rather strange email, he decides to entertain himself by scamming the scammers. But of course, nothing is quite what it seems in this delightful romp through an Internet that doesn't quite exist ... or does it?
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 2006
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2007
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [184 KB], eReader (PDB) [36 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [23 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [22 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [81 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [94 KB], hiebook (KML) [76 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [59 KB], iSilo (PDB) [20 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [24 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [52 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [37 KB]
Words: 6213
Reading time: 17-24 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Ryan Mann was bored. Bored enough to read junk email rather than simply toss it as spam. Frustrated enough to consider answering it, just to see what would happen.
It had been a long, slow summer--a total waste, ever since July 4, when he'd heard a sound like a gunshot in the middle of the Firecracker Criterium bicycle race: forty laps of tight corners on a twelve-block course through the cobbly streets of Old Town. He'd had about a millisecond to process the fact that the bang came from his front tire, and then he'd gone from leading the peloton to being run over by it, somehow managing to break both collarbones in the process. Before hitting the ground, he'd been one of the best amateur cyclists in the state; afterward he couldn't even dress himself--or do a few more-embarrassing things, for that matter.
Now, he could again reach over his head--sort of, anyway--but he was still laid off from work and had two more no-cycling months stretching ahead. If it weren't for his laptop, Ryan would have gone stark raving mad. It was one of the new ultra-light models that ran on solar power and weighed just under three pounds, which was the maximum they'd allowed him to lift during the first weeks of bone-knitting. "Use it on your lap," the doctor said. "And keep changing the angle so it works your wrists a bit differently every few minutes. Your shoulders aren't the only things messed up by the fall."
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