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The real question is: “Who is wasting whose time?” This thread has gone on for, what, five pages?
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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?
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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.[
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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?
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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=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…
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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.
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, 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…
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.
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).
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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?
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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:
That about finishes it, I’d say. Unusual to get a reply like this after the lid comes off.
Learn the difference.
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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.