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Too Stupid to Own a Computer
Renegade:
This is sad, but true, and completely hiliarious:
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1524
The couple are said to have tricked the composer into believing that, while investigating the virus, they had found evidence that his life was in danger – concocting a story that the virus had been tracked to a hard drive in Honduras, and that evidence had been found that the composer's life was in danger.
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And they took him for $6,000,000.
Some people really are too stupid and should never own a computer...
Stoic Joker:
Okay, so after you cut a 7 figure check to a small computer shop because you've been convinced that this mom & pop shop has a finger on the pulse of the criminal underworld (most do right..?). Only then do you think to ask the cops if this might just be bullshit?!?
Wow! ...A fool and his money (really) are soon parted.
(given that it was an oil tycoon they targeted) Just let those two crazy kids go, they've earned the money. Have them donate half to an educational charity and then put them on tour explaining to people why being gullible is bad.
4wd:
(given that it was an oil tycoon they targeted)-Stoic Joker (November 11, 2010, 07:10 AM)
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His oil tycoon relative will just put up your fuel prices to cover the cheque....should be recovered in 2.5748394858 seconds.
sajman99:
Ha! I'll bet Halliburton is somehow behind this entire sordid tale. ;D
(edit: just a little petrochemical humor--it's apparently trendy to slam Halliburton these days. ;))
cranioscopical:
just a little petrochemical humor
-sajman99 (November 11, 2010, 06:56 PM)
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What a gas!
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