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

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> > > 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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