[extropy-chat] STING: I've got a live one!

[Mike Lorrey]

Well, you know those spams that everyone gets, the classic one from
Abacha and so forth, claiming to be asking you to help them spirit
their wealth out of their shithole country, when they actually want
access to your bank accounts, as well as the scam that Spike's friend
fell partly victim to last month.

Well, I got a new one, written by an arab in Dubai who is 'dying' and
wants his $18 million dispersed to various charities, offering me a 20%
retainer, but needs to get it out of the country and out of the hands
of his nefarious relatives.

On a lark, I responded, pretending to be a good muslim with all the
"allah be merciful"s and so forth, and expressing caution about being
implicated by the US govt in any scheme to funnel funds to alleged
"terrorist" charity groups, I set some conditions about how I wanted to
proceed.

Well, I got a response, complete with nicely faked up photos of the
alleged perp in a hospital bed, pushing his I.V. cart around the
hospital and so forth. He is obviously trying to get some bank account
info and wants me to pay some costs of transfers (yeah, right). I'm
wondering at what point I should turn it over to the secret service?

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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