Thursday, September 25, 2008

419, the Old-Fashioned Way

Just to show the world what kind of a technological backwater I've washed up in: someone has been going around my home town dropping letters through people's front doors claiming to be from the window of the President of Zambia, asking for help in moving millions of pounds through the banking system. Yes, that's right: it's a paper-based version of the 419 scams. Well, would-be-scammers, the jokes on you. People round her don't trust them new-fangled banks. Give a total stranger your money rather than keep it under your bed? Not likely.

via The Dorset Echo (our local rag).

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