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

[mark seiden-via mac <mis () seiden com>]

it's interesting that they're going through the trouble of reading  
people's email enough so they
can add verisimilitude to an otherwise lackluster narrative.

i don't think these are bots.

the key questions they have to get over are why they can't be reached  
by phone and why they can't
receive the money in their own name.

On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Col wrote:

> Same thing happened to a friend this morning, replace London for  
> Wales though.
>
> Funny thing was they said they were there with their husband and  
> baby, when the husband was sitting behind the person they were  
> trying to scam. The scammer instantly logged off when this came to  
> light. So I don't think its a bot.
>
> C.
>
>
> 2009/6/22 Imri Goldberg <lorgandon () gmail com>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org 
> > wrote:
> 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.
>
> How do you know it was a bot?
>
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