Re: I'm stranded in London! Send money!

["G. D. Fuego" <gdfuego () gmail com>]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:

> der Mouse wrote:
> > > > > http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/06/facebook_419_im.html
> > > > IMO the real news here is that a bot managed to pass the Turing  
> > > > test
> > > > well enough that after an hour talking with it you had to resort to
> > > > out-of-band contacts to be sure it wasn't the person it was
> > > > pretending to be.
> > > 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?
> >
> > The same minimum-wage "Nigerians in cybercafes" that send 419s?
>
> Seems like it. Human bots FTW!

Domo Arigato Mr. Human Boto
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