>>> http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/06/facebook_419_im.html >> IMO the real news here is that a bot managed to pass the Turing test >> well enough that after an hour talking with it you had to resort to >> out-of-band contacts to be sure it wasn't the person it was >> pretending to be. > The more I think about it the less likely it seems that it was a bot, > however, what else could it be for such a large-scale scam?
The same minimum-wage "Nigerians in cybercafes" that send 419s? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
