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Joe 90 writes "An interesting story got posted on the Irish Linux Users group. It involves the arrest of a scammer/spammer working in an internet cafe. It even includes the attempt to eat a usb pen drive, several cops and a 10 minute struggle to subdue the man. Story is available on the Linux.ie mailing list
By the way Gardai = the cops in Ireland."
No wonder there was a struggle!
A unmamed man aprehended a scammer and a spammer,a nd put them in the slammer using only a scanner and a spanner!
Or something like that........
Fellowship 9/11
It wasn't a scam, it was just a bad April Fool joke...and we all know we had a blast with bad jokes on Slashdot. Everybody deserves a little fun.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
From the article:
Some of you who were on #linux on friday will know part or most of this story already as i witnessed some of it (while drinking a truly delicious hot chocolate).
You know, more people should mention what they're drinking when relating news like this.
There is an interesting and [somewhat] related article on The Register.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
I hate spam more than I hate crackers
But yet combining spam and crackers can be quite a tasty treat.
Do it for Jesus
I guess he needed to add that last line, since this all happend around the first of April.
Maybe he should have looked into the Thermite option we saw in the latest edition of The Broken?
Of course, you don't want that going off when your trying to swallow the evidence. On second though, you don't really want it going off in your pocket either...
"Luck is what others call skill when they have none." --Phelan Kell
Of all the fallout from the 419 spamming, I dont believe anything is funnier than Ebola Monkey Man. Good way to kill productivity this fine Monday morning. ;)
Not sure if for simple spam he would have a problem under ireland's law, but as scammer probabilities go up.
No! Say it ain't so! It's bad enough we export McDonald's and Britney, but now we're exporting our political-correctness?
An "African-American" is a person of African origin living in America. Not all African-Americans are black, and not all blacks are African. Certainly it would be a strange coincidence if this black person in Dublin was visiting from America, and also happened to be originally from Africa.
This stuff hurts my head.
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Would be a good beginning of the punishment for spamming!
here : j@ww.com , no spam will get through because you're still missing the password
I hope the password's not viagra, or some l33t speak typo variant.
Car analogies break down.
Hmm.. I kind of understand the attempt to eat cops (though you could have better diet), but how do you eat a 10 minute struggle? Is that something bad tasting that doesn't stay down or is it those police men that make it thight fit for your stomach? Well.. should subdue anyone..
Store with salt
There's a certain irony to an Irishman in Ireland referring to hauling people off in the paddywagon. Especially when the guy in question actually isn't Irish.
What a great story!
Hey, if the memory stick were actually swallowed and then passed through the scammer's digestive system, and the Gardai waited it out and retrieved it from the loo, and it still worked, think what a great marketing slogan the manufacturer could make from that.
Tough enough to pass through the guts of a scammer!
If this story turns out to be a hoax, I'll be sorely disappointed. The thought of one of these 419 scammers desperately trying to break free of the grasp of the police in order to run back and hit a kill switch on his notebook computer makes my nipples explode with delight.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
So he would be an Irish-American? Err, wait...
Typos... that's just how I role.
I just sent you an email containing:
1. The meaning of life.
2. The location of $1,000,000 I buried 10 years ago.
3. How to get any woman you want.
4. How to stay young and live forever.
Oh well.
It even includes the attempt to eat a usb pen drive, several cops...
Now that is one hungry spammer!
Well, let's all start flood pinging it before we start to start thinking about our actions, its neighbor IPs, or whether the information is even really accurate :)
Can't... Stop... Laughing...
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Unfortunately it would seem that whilst you have obviously been furnished with a good understanding of the term 'African-American' you obviously have zero understanding of the term 'humour'.
Blaming GW Bush for the Iraq war is like blaming Ronald McDonald for the poor quality of food.
No! Say it ain't so! It's bad enough we export McDonald's and Britney, but now we're exporting our political-correctness?
An "African-American" is a person of African origin living in America. Not all African-Americans are black, and not all blacks are African. Certainly it would be a strange coincidence if this black person in Dublin was visiting from America, and also happened to be originally from Africa.
It almost killed me when I heard a US newscaster refer to Nelson Mandela as African-American.
When your world is all round pegs, what can you do when you encounter a square one?
Best Line: "Or a contraption which hits the user on the head for every mail they send. So if they send 1 an hour, it's a mild nuisance. But if they send 100 a minute, it'll probably kill them."
VENI, VIDI, VICI, DIXI
And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
Hrrm... I usually just sign my name.
It even includes the attempt to eat a usb pen drive, several cops and...
Diet tip of the day: never try to eat cops. That whole pig motif's just a cunning lie.
...are much tastier with a bit of ketchup, and easier to swallow too!
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I've got absolutely nothing to hide,
by Anonymous Coward
Um...
... was found in the booth as well, I suppose?
f-f-f-f-f-f-f!!!
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
>USB pen drives aren't very filling.
Don't know. That's a lot of bytes.
>
> Eventually, 2 more gardai arrive and he's cuffed and brought out, crying like a little girl
Ten. Whole. Minutes. Skulls thumping, billy clubs and fists flying, and 419er whimpering.
Video? Even grainy stuff from the internet cafe's security cam? Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with a lead pipe and a clump of spammer flesh on top?
> What have I learned? Firstly, [ ... ]
FIFTHLY: BRING A VIDEO CAMERA NEXT TIME! You got to see all the good stuff, and you didn't SHARE!
The correct term, as everyone should know, is African-African.
Er, wait...
~Idarubicin
(One of) their slang names is "An Garda Sicini" (pronounced with a "h" after the "s", and the two latter "i"'s are long), which means "Guardians of the Chickens".
"It even includes the attempt to eat a usb pen drive, several cops and a 10 minute struggle to subdue the man."
You mean he wasn't "shot while trying to escape?"
Let me guess ... it's in Nigeria right?
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"I love entertainment, as long as it's clean"