I met a guy at RSA this year that this same thing happened to
involving London (Bryan Rutberg). His daughter was the first to catch
on, and they tried to warn people using his wife's and daughter's
accounts... who were promptly "de-friended". Other attempts were
reacted to very quickly and in similar fashion. One of the two friends
that was defrauded asked some very pointed questions, and the
responder was able to dig through email history, friend info, etc. to
pull out realistic enough details to convince the friend to send $1200.
In that case it was surely a human, and this sounds similar enough (in
locale even).
~Coop
On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:58 PM, mark seiden-via mac wrote:
it's interesting that they're going through the trouble of reading
people's email enough so they
can add verisimilitude to an otherwise lackluster narrative.
i don't think these are bots.
the key questions they have to get over are why they can't be
reached by phone and why they can't
receive the money in their own name.
On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Col wrote:
Same thing happened to a friend this morning, replace London for
Wales though.
Funny thing was they said they were there with their husband and
baby, when the husband was sitting behind the person they were
trying to scam. The scammer instantly logged off when this came to
light. So I don't think its a bot.
C.
2009/6/22 Imri Goldberg <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, der Mouse <[email protected]
> wrote:
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.
How do you know it was a bot?
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