Well, burn down my unabomber shack! Have we smoked out Tim May? As much as his one-sided thinking pisses me off sometimes I miss the sheer "fuck you" of it. -TD

From: Tim <nightwatch01@comcast.net> To: Eric Cordian <emc@artifact.psychedelic.net> CC: cypherpunks@minder.net Subject: Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:30:52 -0700

What a bleeding-heart moron you are, Eric!

Eric Cordian wrote:

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I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings about what the people are doing there.

It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an advance fee.

But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to try and feed their families. I see no reason to be proud of reverse-scamming a Nigerian out of $80 when it might be his entire family's food money for the month.

Only idiots fall for Nigerian Spam. (well, aside from that lady who worked at a bank, and sent some Nigerian $1.3 million of the bank's money)

It seems to me the relationship between affluent Americans and poor Nigerians is an example of a dominant class/subordinate class structure, and in such a structure, the subordinate class has rights, and the dominant class has responsibilities.

So the savages have a right to try to scam us, and we fat, rich Americans (at least us white ones, maybe the black ones never receive the 419 scams) should either give them some $$, or at least not try to stop the scams...

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It is beneath the station of those those with the power to define, describe, and profile the world to pick the pocket of some poor black man in Africa, while encouraging him to pose for funny pictures that will be laughed at on some comfortably well off white person's web site.

It's tough to have a fair debate with you, when you resort to using some extrasensory psychic powers which I am lacking.

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