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

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> Here's a story of someone trying to scam me from a friend's facebook
> account which they took over:

> 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 ASCII                             Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML                mouse () rodents-montreal org
/ \ Email!           7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.