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One of my favourite 419 scambaitings yet!

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 10:56am on 29/06/2006 under , ,
In this twist on the familiar tale, a 419 scammer ends up carving Creature Comforts characters and a Commodore 64 for the man he planned to scam - and sent them to the UK!

More "conversations" with the scammers here.

Original link from BoingBoing
Mood:: 'amused' amused
location: Putney, London
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posted by [identity profile] maetang.livejournal.com at 10:14am on 29/06/2006
The Only Fools and Horses references make it extra funny! :^D
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posted by [personal profile] beermat at 10:15am on 29/06/2006
Interestingly, I found myself almost feeling sorry for the scammer!
the effort he (or someone) put into the carvings.

Now, wonder if I could get him to do me a C64 wooden carving. And then put some kind of capacitive detector on the keys, linked to a miniITX running a C=64 emulator...
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 10:19am on 29/06/2006
What you want is one of these. They can be hacked to boot up as a C64 and have pads on the PCB to add ports for the disk drive, the cassette player and a keyboard...
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posted by [personal profile] vampwillow at 11:17am on 29/06/2006
"I found myself almost feeling sorry for the scammer!"

likewise. Whilst it might well have been the case that the oiginal contact was a scam the carvings stuff felt almost like entrapment ...
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posted by [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com at 11:36am on 29/06/2006
Indeed. I wonder, now, just how much the people who produce the various African carvings we see in shops here actually get. Okay, so they're transported in bulk rather than one by one, but the prices are usually less than that guy was paying in courier charges. Presumably it was only worth their while because they thought they'd a chance at the big money.
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posted by [identity profile] alex-holden.livejournal.com at 11:07am on 29/06/2006
I wonder if the sculptor got paid for his work.
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 09:12pm on 30/06/2006
he did; the scambaiter checked. the scammer makes - ooh - 45k a month out of people he scams. turnabout is fair play?
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