On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Roger Taranto wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:04, jdow wrote: > > > Well, a new variant of 419 has hit my mailbox. Someone named Allan Hofer > > died in Nigeria. And he left a big estate. The "barrister" wants to take > > 70%, reserve 5% for expenses, and give me 25%. I am SORELY tempted to > > reply something like, "Oh My God, Cousin Allan is dead? He was such a > > friend to me when we were little. <and on and on>" > > > > Gawd but it's tailor made for a reverse sting! > > > > Someone has done this already. Check out: http://thespamletters.com > > Some writer has replied to a lot of spam with the craziest things and a > few have replied. See the ongoing discussions he has had with some of > the Nigerians.
Even better, check out the "419 Eater" site: http://www.419eater.com/ Talk about sting/stringing them on, check out the story about Pastor Rao: http://www.419eater.com/html/kothapalli_rao.htm (Love the loaf-on-head picture ;) -- Dave Funk University of Iowa <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include <std_disclaimer.h> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{
