Thursday, January 24, 2008

Reality and 419 scam merge

Maybe you've already received one of these, but this was new to me, and apparently to the Google spam filter:

"I am manager [... same old same old ...] abandoned large sum of money (US$14.7M) belonging to one of our Foreign Customer Dr. George Brumley ... who involved in air crash along with his family. You can confirm from the website below.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

I am seeking for your Co-operation [... same old same old ...] please reply with ..."

What is interesting is that the link is real. Brumley was a real person, and he and his family did die in a tragic plane accident. Sadly, I think this extra touch of reality will convince more people to become victims.

I have to go now and mark it as spam - Google's spam filter is actually excellent and seems to learn very quickly (the wisdom of crowds no doubt).

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