Eric Cordian wrote:
But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are
forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to try and feed their
families.
The 419ers aren't the starving poor - they know exactly what they
are doing and have got the resources to do
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
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.
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Subject: Reverse Scamming 419ers
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
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
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
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:
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. :)
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Roy M. Silvernail is
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
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston,
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
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 vast riches in return for an
advance fee.
But Nigeria is a
Eric Cordian wrote:
But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where
people are forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to
try and feed their families. I see no reason to be proud of
reverse-scamming a Nigerian out of $80 when it might be his entire
family's
Eric Cordian wrote:
It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking
foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an
advance fee.
Granted.
But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are
forced by economic
David Howe writes:
Presumably these are the Nigerians who have only $80 for food that
month, yet somehow can still afford to bulkspam thousands of inboxes
each day, process bank transactions and take part in international phone
calls.
Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem.
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