To my dismay, it was what seemed to be a feeble attempt at hacking. The whymail read as follows:

"I would like to congratulate you on a victory! You have won 1st place in the drawing! 1st place recieves 2000 clams, all of fairy kiya's best selling hairs including the hard to find latia, and also funky curls. Also you will recieve a salary raise up to 100 clams. Now their wasa a second place winner, who was snowgrl13 who only got a 75 clams salary raise, and 1000 clams. Now this drawing is done in a distingt club! This club is secret, and there are 15 members, who all have atleast 30,000 clams! The drawing is done by, the first person to enter a secret room, or maybe the 13th person to enter the room wins the prize. It depends usually on the time, and day. It is all luck of the draw. I am very happy to have you win. All you have to do is y mail me back telling me if you want this prize or not, and also y mail your pw back to. Now if you don't trust me please i am not forcing you to have this prize! The pw is to place everything in your account without spending a bunch of clams. See this drawing is done every month, only once though. Thankyou for reading this, and please y-mail me back soon"

Sound a little suspicious? Yup, that's what I thought. I checked the City Records on the person who sent the mail, and snowgrl13, who was mentioned above, and... for both accounts, the same message appeared: Sorry, this user's page cannot be displayed.

Now I probably will never know if they were the same person or not, but I'm assuming they were -- or that they were accounts stolen by a scammer, who then tried to pass her scam on to me.

Whoever they were, I decided to write this very article, to warn other Whyvillians they might try this again. No matter how good an offer sounds, getting scammed is definitely not worth the unlikely rewards.

I'm off to go eat some pepperoni pizza... mmmm... pepperonis...

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