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

[Michael Graham <jmgraham () gmail com>]

A lot of people haven't dealt with the "live chat" side of the 419 crew, but
they've sorta been working scams via chat already.  The common TTY
(hearing-impaired communication by typing over phone) services all have chat
to voice gateways (usually handled by a real person transcribing someone's
voice to the TTY client and reading the TTY client input to the
speaking/hearing person).  The 419 gangs have been using the exposed
internet interface of those gateway services to try to scam small town
businesses since at least 2004.
If this was 419'ers and not a bot (and it's probably not a bot) I expect if
they see even a bit of success with the facebook channel we'll see everyone
in Lagos who worked the US TTY services on facebook chat real soon.



On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:52 AM, der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>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?
>
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