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

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

der Mouse wrote:
> > 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 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?



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