From: "Kelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
jdow wrote:
In the October "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine one of the
short stories is titled "Nigerian Scam" by Richard A. Lovett, in which
the scammer really IS from "Vega", the protagonist misses seeing the
scam involved, and the scammer and gets "dealt with" in the end quite
um appropriately and thoroughly. In fact the scammer's end was quite
cathartic.
So this story would fall under the category of "Science fiction that you
wish would be fact," right?
Welllll, some of the ideas in it as part of the scam might be fun to
have around. It's just that poor old GLEIMICKR just sort of misunderstood
how hardware hackers work and as a result got a calibration parameter
about 16000:1 off which affected his scam's success and made the end
more or less inevitable.
{^_-}
