On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:52 +0100, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/8/1 Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com>: > > comex wrote: > >> At the extreme, I remember > >> watching the creation, under a scamming organization called the > >> "cabal", of a fake "sub-cabal" as a way to trick other players into > >> participating in a scam believing they were participating in a > >> different one. > > > > Which scam was that? > > Codename "The Scam", mostly referred to in Agora as the "Cygnus scam" > or "I sentence you to 1,000 years of chokey". (The participators in > that were me, comex and ais523 (who doesn't like me saying so for some > reason) and the members of the subcabal were me, comex and Sgeo, I > think, although ais523 might have been there too.) > > Hey, we never actually told you, did we, Sgeo? Sorry 'bout that. :)
Heh, it was more complicated than that. The 'subcabal' containing me and Sgeo was actually legitimate, in that we were planning genuine scams there (some of which we have to try sometime; I don't think any of them were actually attempted). We disguised it as a secret cabal from the other cabal in order to muddy the waters further; I think I was the only person who actually knew what was going on. (Cue the mentions that there was a third cabal I had no idea about...) However, it was involved with a different scam from the Cygnus scam, which for some reason was never attempted (but IIRC still works, I might try it sometime). There were a couple of entirely fake cabals too, in particular ##a-cow (which was never particularly important, but which gave its /name/ to various other channels later, notably #really-a-cow that was a public forum for a while). Pretty much everyone who ended up in ##a-cow concluded that it was fake, although not everyone realised it was a decoy for something else. -- ais523
