Reverse Scamming 419ers

[Tyler Durden]

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 at comcast.net>
>To: Eric Cordian <emc at artifact.psychedelic.net>
>CC: cypherpunks at 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:
>
>>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...
>
>>
>>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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