I was awoken at 6:30 this morning by a wrong number. Well, I continued to get these calls, only from lots of different phones (5 so far). Anyhoo... The last one the guy didn't hang up, he tells me that he got an email today with my phone number and name on it from some payday loan company. He forwards me the email, and sure enough, there it is! It looks like some scammer pulled email addresses from a listserver that I am on for my job and used that to send out email. But they did a really sloppy job and posted the emails too....idiots!
Anyways, that got me into investigative mode. As I began trying to track down how this all came to be, I made a rather happy discovery. As I am sure you all have gotten these at one point, I thought I would share this with you. 419-baiting is the name used to describe the (sport? Hobby? religion?) of baiting the so called nigerian scammers. These are the guys who send out emails saying they are the barrister for some dying president who hid money in some oversees account, and they want you to get it for them. For which they will pay handsomely. These baiters turn the tables on these criminals and get them to do all sorts of wacky things! Curious? Just google 419 baiting. You'll find all sorts of sites dedicated to it. Funny stuff! One of the things I came across seems to be somewhat legendary in these circles. One individual was able to convince the nigerian scammer to get a friend and to re-enact the legendary Monty Python Dead Parrot routine on video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQqd17p9_0 Take a look. You will be in awe of the individuals ability to convince these cretins to do this! Thank god he is using his power for good! Anyway, enjoy! I'm off to figure out if I should change my phone number....<oh bother> -- Warren R. Baltimore II Remedy Developer 410-533-5367 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
