# Greetings. My name is Crandall Spondular **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730 "2007-12-04T00:19:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/221 "2008-01-25T14:37:00Z")
[QUOTE=guizot] The real question is: “Who is wasting whose time?” This thread has gone on for, what, five pages? [/QUOTE] I don’t think anyone has any doubt about that. **Mangetout** , I’m assuming, and many of us have gotten a great deal of entertainment from this. I’ve gotten to know about a whole world I didn’t know about before: scambaiting. On the other side, I can’t imagine that they’ve gotten much out of this. What did you think **Mangetout** was hoping to get, other than five pages of hilarious material? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/222 "2008-01-25T22:22:06Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] I don’t think anyone has any doubt about that. **Mangetout** , I’m assuming, and many of us have gotten a great deal of entertainment from this. I’ve gotten to know about a whole world I didn’t know about before: scambaiting.[ [/QUOTE] Well that’s good to know. If you’ve been informed and entertained by this, that’s great. But it isn’t anything new. There are many websites with people doing this. I would never have the time. [QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] On the other side, I can’t imagine that they’ve gotten much out of this. What did you think **Mangetout** was hoping to get, other than five pages of hilarious material? [/QUOTE] Well, it isn’t that hilarious, because so many people have done it before. It’s a really tired joke. But if he gets a kick out of it… ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/223 "2008-01-25T22:49:24Z")
[QUOTE=guizot] Well that’s good to know. If you’ve been informed and entertained by this, that’s great. But it isn’t anything new. There are many websites with people doing this. I would never have the time.Well, it isn’t that hilarious, because so many people have done it before. It’s a really tired joke. But if he gets a kick out of it… [/QUOTE] Thread here. Toilet there. Learn the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/224 "2008-01-25T23:20:54Z")
OK, this is probably the end of it: > [@](#): > > Dear Dr Brunton. > > Thank you for understanding - obviously I’m incredibly embarrassed by that mistake, and I can only apologise again for any inconvenience or upset it may have caused. > > I’ve scanned and attached the transfer document - I hope it’s OK this time… > > Regards > Crandall The file I sent is [here](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/stuff/DOCUMENT.pdf) - that’s a PDF link - and the image is just an ugly fish and some text this time. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/225 "2008-01-25T23:21:33Z")
[QUOTE=Diomedes] Thread here. Toilet there. Learn the difference. [/QUOTE] Seriously. The picture of David Beckham holding the \*I’ve been Sporked! \*sign and Ms. Dickson’s confusion about what, exactly, was being asked of her was worth the price of admission for me. ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/226 "2008-01-26T00:18:14Z")
Waiting with bated breath for the next installment. You are living my dream, dear Crandall Spondular. Yes, yes. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/227 "2008-01-26T01:34:03Z")
On one hand, I definitely laughed at Crandall’s antics. But you know, after reading teh parallel thread about what [life is really like in Nigeria](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9407941), I gotta say that if I had had the misfortune to be born there I would probably be doing my best to part wealthy-yet-stupid foreigners from their money too… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/228 "2008-01-26T01:51:53Z")
I wavered towards sympathy a bit too, except - make no mistake - these guys are thieves. There can’t really be any justification for that. I might be doing it too, if I’d been born there, but that wouldn’t make it right. ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/229 "2008-01-26T13:07:15Z")
I’ve always wondered how low these scammers would go. For instance: You pretend to be a church run orphanage. You received a large donation from the president of a large corporation (Health South, ENRON, MCI). The bankruptcy court wants the money back, (the bait), but the orphanage has already spent a good bit of it. They’re counting on replacing it with Ms Dickson’s money (the hook). Would they try to scam nuns and orphans? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/230 "2008-01-26T13:59:24Z")
[QUOTE=Bewildebeest] I’ve always wondered how low these scammers would go. For instance: You pretend to be a church run orphanage. You received a large donation from the president of a large corporation (Health South, ENRON, MCI). The bankruptcy court wants the money back, (the bait), but the orphanage has already spent a good bit of it. They’re counting on replacing it with Ms Dickson’s money (the hook). Would they try to scam nuns and orphans? [/QUOTE] Pretty sure they would. I know some of the people that have been successfully scammed in the past have been in quite desperate positions. Anyway, I just got this: > [@](#): > > OK NICE THIS IS YOUR PICTURE VERY NICE YOU ARE TOO BEAUTYFULL That about finishes it, I’d say. Unusual to get a reply like this after the lid comes off. I just sent this in response: > [@](#): > > Dear Dr Brunton > > YOU SEE YOUR LIFE > > Kind Regards > Crandall ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730/231 "2008-01-26T17:41:04Z")
[QUOTE=Diomedes] Thread here. Toilet there. Learn the difference. [/QUOTE] Point well taken. I shouldn’t drop in just to be negative, and I apologize. (I was in a bad mood.) And **Mangetout** is pretty good at scambaiting. It’s one way of fighting crime. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-my-name-is-crandall-spondular/428730.md?page=11)