Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Eric Cordian wrote: But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to try and feed their families. The 419ers aren't the starving poor - they know exactly what they are doing and have got the resources to do it

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Troll bait - yum! But this discussion is already partly my fault, so I guess I'll bite. It's true that most of these scammers have chosen a life of non-violent theft that's more moral than some of the things they could have done for money, like being bandits, or joining the armies of the corrupt

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

At 5:24 PM -0400 6/11/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: >But I didn't come right out and *say* they need killing. :) See below... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "When I was

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Tyler Durden wrote: Well, burn down my unabomber shack! Have we smoked out Tim May? As much as his one-sided thinking pisses me off sometimes I miss the sheer "fuck you" of it. -TD Nope, sorry champ! But look at the bright side -- you've got a good excuse to keep smoking.

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

On 2004-06-11T20:22:33-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > > Well, burn down my unabomber shack! Have we smoked out Tim May? As much as > his one-sided thinking pisses me off sometimes I miss the sheer "fuck you" > of it. > > >From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If so, it's quite a clever disguise. User-Age

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Well, burn down my unabomber shack! Have we smoked out Tim May? As much as his one-sided thinking pisses me off sometimes I miss the sheer "fuck you" of it. -TD From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Revers

RE: Reverse Scamming 419ers

"It is beneath the station of those those with the power to define, describe, and profile the world to pick the pocket of some poor black man in Africa, while encouraging him to pose for funny pictures that will be laughed at on some comfortably well off white person's web site." I gotta admit th

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

What a bleeding-heart moron you are, Eric! Eric Cordian wrote: I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings about what the people are doing there. It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:41, Eric Cordian wrote: > Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > > > Think of it as evolution in action. > > I think we've identified another applicant on the short list for Tim May's > old job. :) But I didn't come right out and *say* they need killing. :) -- Roy M. Silvernail i

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Roy M. Silvernail wrote: > Think of it as evolution in action. I think we've identified another applicant on the short list for Tim May's old job. :) -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

David Howe writes: > Presumably these are the Nigerians who have only $80 for food that > month, yet somehow can still afford to bulkspam thousands of inboxes > each day, process bank transactions and take part in international phone > calls. Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem.

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Eric Cordian wrote: It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an advance fee. Granted. But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are forced by economic circumsta

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

Eric Cordian wrote: But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to try and feed their families. I see no reason to be proud of reverse-scamming a Nigerian out of $80 when it might be his entire family's foo