mcopado
Lit's Resident Reverend
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Part 1
A couple weeks ago while surfing at another web forum I received an “interesting” PM. It was quite a surprise since I am rarely on that site and I hardly ever get any private messages there.
Now of course my curiosity was piqued, I mean what red blooded American male doesn’t want a live in love-slave? Now being a connoisseur of all manner of internet scams and come-ons, (Because I helped Al Gore invent the internets dontyaknow?) I figured that since no woman on Lit has ever made me such a wonderful proposition here where I’m known, why would I believe a woman on a site where I’m a complete stranger make me an offer...I smelled something fishy.
Also I’m always suspicious of people writing me on the web (especially on myspace) and immediately giving me their Yahoo email addresses, especially on sites that have their own internal communication means. Yahoo email addys are used commonly by scammers, spammers, phishers, and fake chat spambot users all the time. So my alarm bell started to go off…
Since I love to mess with 419, Nigerian, and Russian Bride Scammers, I decided to play around with this one, simply because it was nothing like the usual ones that I get since my “regular” email address indicates that I’m a minister. I tend to get the come-ons that I call the “Gud Kristien Gurl” scam. Usually they try to plan on the idea that since I’m a minister I want a good Holy bride of Christ type woman in my life (LOL). They’re email usually look like this;
Another variation that I get is the Danish teacher teaching English in a Christian school in NIGERIA...Notice 2 common things here, the Yahoo addy in the email, and the Nigeria location. If you don’t know about these scams Wired magazine did a great piece on it http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/07/53818. There are also plenty of websites that provide info on the various scams, as well as places where people chronicle how they fought back http://www.419eater.com is one of the best and funniest sites.
Ok enough of the boring and educational crap. I want to show you the fun I had for about a two week period. Since this love-slave come-on was a new spin on an old scam, I just had to play along. I got into character. And I think I did some of my best writing ever…
So here’s my response to the pm.
“Her” response came back almost immediately;
I sent her my “fake” yahoo email, the one that I use when I sign up for something that I know I’ll receive spam from.
And the fun really began ;-) To be continued…
A couple weeks ago while surfing at another web forum I received an “interesting” PM. It was quite a surprise since I am rarely on that site and I hardly ever get any private messages there.
Now of course my curiosity was piqued, I mean what red blooded American male doesn’t want a live in love-slave? Now being a connoisseur of all manner of internet scams and come-ons, (Because I helped Al Gore invent the internets dontyaknow?) I figured that since no woman on Lit has ever made me such a wonderful proposition here where I’m known, why would I believe a woman on a site where I’m a complete stranger make me an offer...I smelled something fishy.
Also I’m always suspicious of people writing me on the web (especially on myspace) and immediately giving me their Yahoo email addresses, especially on sites that have their own internal communication means. Yahoo email addys are used commonly by scammers, spammers, phishers, and fake chat spambot users all the time. So my alarm bell started to go off…
Since I love to mess with 419, Nigerian, and Russian Bride Scammers, I decided to play around with this one, simply because it was nothing like the usual ones that I get since my “regular” email address indicates that I’m a minister. I tend to get the come-ons that I call the “Gud Kristien Gurl” scam. Usually they try to plan on the idea that since I’m a minister I want a good Holy bride of Christ type woman in my life (LOL). They’re email usually look like this;
Another variation that I get is the Danish teacher teaching English in a Christian school in NIGERIA...Notice 2 common things here, the Yahoo addy in the email, and the Nigeria location. If you don’t know about these scams Wired magazine did a great piece on it http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/07/53818. There are also plenty of websites that provide info on the various scams, as well as places where people chronicle how they fought back http://www.419eater.com is one of the best and funniest sites.
Ok enough of the boring and educational crap. I want to show you the fun I had for about a two week period. Since this love-slave come-on was a new spin on an old scam, I just had to play along. I got into character. And I think I did some of my best writing ever…
So here’s my response to the pm.
“Her” response came back almost immediately;
I sent her my “fake” yahoo email, the one that I use when I sign up for something that I know I’ll receive spam from.
And the fun really began ;-) To be continued…
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