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Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money!
From: Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:12:46 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gadi Evron wrote:
The more I think about it the less likely it seems that it was a bot, however, what else could it be for such a large-scale scam?
I would think that you had a real human on the other end of the net. Let's face it, labor is VERY cheap. If you can get people to massively break captchas for less than $0.01 a piece, I am sure that you can find a lot of warm bodies that would work this scam for a small percentage of any take. If you think about it, they were trying to hit you up for $500. If the "bot-person" on the other end was to get 10% of the take for having successfully socially engineered you, that would be great money ($50) in many places. Even if they only whacked one person a week, they could live in style on that income! Finally, warm bodies are much more flexible and responsive than any bot would be, IMHO. I simply cannot see this being a bot. Jon - -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. Charleston, SC USA o: 843-849-8214 c: 843-813-2924 (NEW!) s: 843-564-4224 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonrkibler My PGP Fingerprint is: BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko/gzEACgkQUVxQRc85QlMlOACfXQp09jLWEMurfgJ0cqxRJe3M GgkAn3DN5PoZWjHsLR1hMyA6f2+y81zi =Ql2c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email.
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- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Imri Goldberg (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Gadi Evron (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Michael Graham (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Col (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! mark seiden-via mac (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Imri Goldberg (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Gadi Evron (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! der Mouse (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Gadi Evron (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! G. D. Fuego (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Michael Graham (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Jon Kibler (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Martin Tomasek (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Larry Seltzer (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Adriel T. Desautels (Jun 22)
- Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money! Martin Tomasek (Jun 22)