Funny take on Nigerian scam

[mattclary]

This literally had me tears near the end. Funny as hell!


http://www.fattibastardo.com/fraud.html

[mastermesh]

this is a real scam. I've actually received an email like the first one. It was promptly blocked with my hotmail filter.

[mattclary]

Oh, it's definitely a real scam! The way this was dealt with was just pretty funny, I think it actually happened.


This is where I found the link originally. Thanks goes to Jin for turning me onto Ars, it's a really cool site.

http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1047347030.html

[Bionic Antboy]

Heheh, reading that reminded me of the ICQ transcripts from Lowtax over at www.somethingawful.com, Like the Terrible Secret of Space... :)

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=287&p=1

and this...

http://www.somethingawful.com/spam/icq/ufos/index.htm

[mattclary]

OMFG! LMAO! Space robots! Grandma's on fire! Holy ****!

[Bionic Antboy]

Hello and welcome to ICQ! :)

The same guys who did the "All Your Base" flash music vid did one based on the Pusher Robot ICQ prank, called, appropriately enough...

The Terrible Secret Of Space...

http://www.jonathonrobinson.com/3.0/web/webtsos.html

will let you see it...

Of course, none of this has ANYTHING to do with LW, but what the heck, spread the geek joy. :)

Antboy

[Nigel]

hehe ,funny thing is, Lowtax actually took these Nigerians on. I read this a while back, but it still makes me laugh to this day :)

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=411

happy reading, and keep a box of tissues handy :)

[zapper1998]

i recieved the same email

wow what a small world

[Bionic Antboy]

heheh... I just got an e-mail for one of these (first time in months). I was even asked to "Endeavour to read carefully". I'm almost tempted to pull a Lowtax on the guy...

hmmm....