COLORADO SPRINGS - A woman has reported to the Police that she received an e-mail in which the sender threatened her life. The sender was pretending to be a hitman that was hired to off her. Of course, the woman panicked and said that she was really scared. I think this is just the normal reaction when someone threatens your life.

In any case, as the message read, the assassin said that he had been stalking her for the last two weeks and that she was going to die in five days, if she did not pay the money. Of course, right after being noticed, the Police investigated this matter and stated that it's all a hoax. Why? For one thing, because the sender was from Germany, so he must have had some great view since he was stalking her from way over there. Secondly, the woman was of no political importance, not a famous person and not involved with anything mind blowing, so since she was just an average American, there is no way a hit had been ordered. These things cost a lot of money and masterminds don't pay assassins to kill the common folk. So, all this has been deemed but a hoax.

Why would you do something like this? Well, for the ransom, of course. I can sit at home and not know anything about guns, or hits and send such e-mails and eventually I will fool somebody to give me some money. It doesn't take a genius to do this. Actually, sometimes, these scammers can be pretty stupid. A few years ago I received an e-mail. It was in Russian, which I can recognize, but not understand, so I called a friend to translate for me. It was something similar to what the woman in Colorado received, but I just ignored it. What can I say? It was a great idea for him/her to send me a message in a language I don't even understand!

So people, if you get one of these e-mails, don't panic. If a hitman were after you and wanted a ransom, he would make sure you knew that, not send you an e-mail that might go to the bulk folder or that you can ignore anyway.