Re: (SOT) [Full-Disclosure] Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered! (fwd)

2004-06-12 Thread Adam
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:25:36 -0500 (CDT) J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Submitted primarily for it's entertainment value, but with a crypto nexus. Yours J.A. Terranson Is this Bilano guy serious? Or is it pulling some inane prank? Notice that he claims to be an 'MSCE' .. Moron I

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread Dave Howe
Eric Cordian wrote: Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem. If email required 37 cent stamps, it would be no more annoying than junk snailmail. it might be free in america - but it isn't here in the UK even at low bandwidths - say, 56K. The sort of bandwidth a professional spammer

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread Tim
Tyler Durden wrote: Well, burn down my unabomber shack! Have we smoked out Tim May? As much as his one-sided thinking pisses me off sometimes I miss the sheer fuck you of it. -TD Nope, sorry champ! But look at the bright side -- you've got a good excuse to keep smoking.

RE: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread Tyler Durden
It is beneath the station of those those with the power to define, describe, and profile the world to pick the pocket of some poor black man in Africa, while encouraging him to pose for funny pictures that will be laughed at on some comfortably well off white person's web site. I gotta admit

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Stewart
Troll bait - yum! But this discussion is already partly my fault, so I guess I'll bite. It's true that most of these scammers have chosen a life of non-violent theft that's more moral than some of the things they could have done for money, like being bandits, or joining the armies of the corrupt

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread Justin
On 2004-06-11T20:22:33-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, burn down my unabomber shack! Have we smoked out Tim May? As much as his one-sided thinking pisses me off sometimes I miss the sheer fuck you of it. From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] If so, it's quite a clever disguise. User-Agent:

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:41, Eric Cordian wrote: Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Think of it as evolution in action. I think we've identified another applicant on the short list for Tim May's old job. :) But I didn't come right out and *say* they need killing. :) -- Roy M. Silvernail is

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 5:24 PM -0400 6/11/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: But I didn't come right out and *say* they need killing. :) See below... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-12 Thread Tim
What a bleeding-heart moron you are, Eric! Eric Cordian wrote: I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings about what the people are doing there. It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise

Re: (SOT) [Full-Disclosure] Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered! (fwd)

2004-06-12 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:13, Adam wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:25:36 -0500 (CDT) J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Submitted primarily for it's entertainment value, but with a crypto nexus. Yours J.A. Terranson Is this Bilano guy serious? Or is it pulling some inane prank?