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

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Mike Cooper wrote:
> I met a guy at RSA this year that this same thing happened to involving 
> London (Bryan Rutberg). His daughter was the first to catch on, and they 
> tried to warn people using his wife's and daughter's accounts... who 
> were promptly "de-friended". Other attempts were reacted to very quickly 
> and in similar fashion. One of the two friends that was defrauded asked 
> some very pointed questions, and the responder was able to dig through 
> email history, friend info, etc. to pull out realistic enough details to 
> convince the friend to send $1200.

Did he demand his money back from them?


> In that case it was surely a human, and this sounds similar enough (in 
> locale even).
>
> ~Coop
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:58 PM, mark seiden-via mac wrote:
>
> > 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 
> > > <mailto:lorgandon () gmail com>>
> > >
> > >     On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, der Mouse
> > >     <mouse () rodents-montreal org <mailto: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?
> > >
> > >     -- 
> > >     Imri Goldberg
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