[extropy-chat] codes in scam letters

[Samantha Atkins]

On Sep 25, 2005, at 1:18 PM, spike wrote:

> The fact that the nigerian scam letters are still
> going around long after everyone knows better is
> evidence that they perhaps are being used for
> something sinister.  We could be awash in signals
> to sleeper cells disguised as spam, the modern
> version of the WW2 radio broadcasts that carried
> signals to the French underground.
>

It is most likely simply evidence that there is no end to the supply  
of fools fat for scamming.   Has there been any decrease in three  
card monte in all the years it has been used to fleece rubes?

One thing for sure, we are awash in paranoid nonsense having nothing  
to do with security.

- s