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What's the Matter with Kansas?

Sunday, October 12, 2003

by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

Ya gotta admire their chutzpa...

In my email this morning I found this:
Important notice

We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in amount of $234.65 (because 
you are either child pornography webmaster or deal with dirty money, which require us to layndry 
them and then send to your checking account). 
If you feel this transaction was made by our mistake, please press "No".
If you confirm this transaction, please press "Yes" and fill in the form below.


Enter your credit card number here: 
 
Enter your credit card expiration date:

I just have to admire the pure, unadulterated larceny and chutzpa involved in sending this out. And the sad thing is that this person will most likely get at least a few returns on this email. Personally, I'm tempted to start entering random 16 digit numbers and expiration dates and sending them back to this person. Hmmmm....a little applet which generates first a 16 digit number, a date (mm/yy) ranging from 1/04 to 12/06, enters them in the form and then executes the mailto button would be an interesting exercise. Yo, sucker! You want spam? I'll give you spam!! *sigh* Dreams of revenge and retribution.

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