On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote:
> > On Jul 17, 2011, at 2:38 PM, John D wrote: > > > and then there was this, in the New Yorker: > > http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/15/060515fa_fact?printable=true > > It never fails to amaze me when nominally intelligent, aware people fall > for these transparently fraudulent schemes, cheerfully allying themselves > with dictators or thieves. > lmao...it happens here with nauseating regularity, it's the machine that keeps the rethugs in office. > > Since we manage the mail servers we see lots of these come through. > > There aren't many of them claiming to be family members of ousted brutal > dictators anymore, they're split between the 'I am dying of cancer and want > you to spread my fortune to the needy' , 'I am a bank employee, and a > depositor with a huge balance has died without heirs, and I want your help > to steal it ' (and I've seen it put as baldly as that) and the 'I am an > American Soldier in [Iraq|Afghanistan] with $65 Millions (US) that I need > your help smuggling out of the country.' versions. > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
