Greetings. My name is Crandall Spondular

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Finally got around to creating a fake passport; here it is.

I sent this, along with the following email (copied to the attorney and the banker):

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FYI, Mange, I read this every morning now and go to work w/ a smile on my face and a tee-hee on my lips!

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Good work that. On the doctored passport, I mean.

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Impressive. Better not advertise this skill too widely.

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I don’t think I could create a physical copy of a passport that would pass muster - all of that was done in a photo manipulation program.

The thing that always gives it the really convincing flavour of authenticity is the rotation - after I superimposed all the text and images, I put the doctored passport image on a dark brown speckly background, did a drop shadow effect around it, then rotated the whole thing a few degrees and re-cropped it - making it look like it was put on the scanner glass slightly askew.

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{A master reveals a few tricks of his trade.}

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Mangetout, have you ever had a scenario where you played two different folks trying to compete for the money? Something tells me you did but I’m not sure. If not, it might be funny if Crandals “brother” got wind of this transaction and tried to cut a preemptive deal with “Sandra.” Maybe by out-wooing Crandal.

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I received this reply from Sandra yesterday, but forgot to post it here

I think I need to ask her for more advice on spiritual and moral things, so I sent this:

I’m just curious to know whether this scammer will actually preach the gospel to me…

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I did something like that with this one - I played a hapless incomprehensible foreigner whose translator (also me) tried to help and brought in a legal advisor (also me) who tried to steal the deal.

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you are an evil mastermind and I applaud you.

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Ah yes, that’s the one. Thank you, Nemga Tuot.

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I think you should imply it was a murder, further down the line!

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if you haven’t already, worshippers of the 419 scammers being out-scammed by us regular folk, check out:

lady agatha is my hero!
:smiley:

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inspired suggestion. I’ll get right to work on that idea…

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Perhaps you sporked someone to death in the ring?

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I sporked a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

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And here’s the part where they ask for money:

$750 is pretty small beer for a scam - I thought these guys usually went for more - although maybe this is the first nibble, intended to get me on the hook so I can start throwing good money after bad.

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So I’ve decided to ask Sandra for help - after all, she’s loaded:

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And here’s “Sandra” in action (NSFW language).

I am ready to transfer the moneys to your bank account. 86 thousand Ugandan dollars.

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That’s just brilliant. Of course “she”'ll say she doesn’t have access to the money. But if she can tell her “bank” to wire the money to you, why can’t she tell that same bank to wire a bit of money to you beforehand? She’ll have a tough time weaselling out of that one.