Dear Fellow Friamers,
Has anybody ever tried to turn the tables on a Nigerian Prince Scammer? So, I agree that you are going send me a million dollars, and I agree that I have to, say, send you $1000 dollars, to facilitate the transfer, but I ask you, the scammer, first to send ME a check for $100 dollars to establish the validity of your bank account, before I send you my thousand? Defectors all the way down? In the end, I am offering to send you penny in order to receive a dime. The whole thing collapses when there are no smaller denominations. Did any of you hear that marvelous This American Life episode in which the bored homeowner decided to respond to the Carpet Cleaning cold caller, by asking, in a tentative, nervous sort of way, if the carpet cleaner could clean blood. Yes. "I mean, human blood?" Uh, yes. And when assured that it could, "Could he clean blood off WALLS?". And when assured on that point, too, could the carpet cleaner come NOW! The police officer who appeared at his door, after seeing that there was in fact no blood, arrested the home owner. When he asked why, the officer said, "I don't know; we'll figure something out in the car." Yes. I know. I need to get a life. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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