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


From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:18:49 +0300

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!


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