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419 Scammer Gets Scammed
johnduffell writes "There's a lot of awareness of 419 scams at the moment, including a report from the BBC of a baiter who managed to get $80 and a birthday card by courier! He did this by convincing the scammer that he was in the Church of the Painted Breast and there's even a photo of the scammer with his breast painted! Presumably the scammers are hoping that the scammees are as stupid as they are."
From the article:
If you're tempted, just remember Prince Joe who's still sending e-mails saying he's sticking to his promise and saying the daily prayer: "When all above seems a great test, Get on down with the Holy Red Breast."
w00t! Where do I join?
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Personally I like this one better:
http://www.419eater.com/html/kothapalli_rao.htm
...the first time one of these smarmy nerds gets his ass handed to him by a pissed-off criminal, I'll definitely be feeling the urge to laugh a bit...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Tell that to the P-P-P-Powerbook scammer.
WASTE - The Secure P2P
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"Presumably the scammers are hoping that the scammees are as stupid as they are."
Having met a decent slice of Human population, I can say that in fact that is the case.
"/Dread"
But, two wrongs do make a funny!
Customs Agent: Reason for entering the country?
Scammer: I'm here to beat the tar out of David Hyde Pierce of the Church of the Painted Breast, who stole $80 from me while I was trying to rip him off for $18,000.
Customs Agent: *puts on gloves* Step into this room, sir.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Two wrongs don't make a right!
You've obviously never seen any of the Chuck Norris flicks from the late 70's and early 80's...
convincing the scammer that he was in the Church of the Painted Breast
I work for the Ministry of Silly Walks.
What about if the government of nigeria doesn't give two dry rat turds about dealing with their scammer population?
You've got a point. Especially considering that the Prince, Prime Minister, Sultanate, Head of State, Military Dictator, and Alien Overlord of Nigeria have each been killed, overthrown, or deposed in a series of bloody uprisings and coups that have apparently tied up millions and millions of that countries personal, palacial, and government assets in secret international banks! With such frequent turmoil I simply can't imagine the resulting state of their legal system...
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
http://www.scamorama.com/bigmac.html
If I were this guy, I'd forget about the spammers -- I'd be more worried about his involvement at the Church of the Painted Breast. I just asked my Most Holy Pastor here at the Church of Scientology, and he told me the Painted Breasters are a scam and just a "stupid made up religion to scam the weakminded out of their money". And my pastor isn't lying -- in fact, he *can't* lie, even if he wanted to. He cast out the demons of lying when that exorcism went on sale last fall. I wish I had the $23,500 required; all I had was $15,000, so I just exorcised the demons of disobedience and free thought.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
C'mon guys, a server can only take so much abuse.
...wasn't even intentional. Guy asked a scammer to pose for a photo holding a sign with a company logo.
Scammer didn't exactly pose with a sign. Scammer did something else, something that no one expected, and that now has the baiter being revered by other baiters as a god (this is not my work, I really envy this guy);
Behold.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
That is purely classic.
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
What do you mean, scam?
And, by the way, when do my concubines show up?
He probablly tried to make a $2000 claim with Fed-Ex. "Look what you guys did to my laptop!". Hehe
Not only do fators for consideration work on the plane of a decision matrix, but the universe is sufficiently sadistic as to insist on things coming out of nowhere to provide a level of complexity that presently exceeds human understanding. This variability scales down, and that's why things don't always go as planned.
People who buy these kinds of books are simply lackingthe level of imagination necessary to avoid getting caught in some corporate peter principle, and want quick answers as to how they can out-edge or out-compete their rivals.
What the 2x matrix world view, in present contexts, fails to understand is that the challenges ahead are not of competition but of co-operation - not unipolar dominance but multipolar consensus - not an overpopulated mass of hungry people, but a vastly depopulated technologically productive species exploring the universe. There is nothing matrical about that - the vision is completely wrong and off - we need more nuanced and complex decisions aided by a technical offloading of horsepower to machines, not simpler faster ones based on the quarterly bottom line...
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
$80 is nothing to them. It's the birthday card that really got them.