Fun With Spam
You know those spam scammers that constantly come knocking with the promise of millions, so long as you send them EVERY bit of banking info you’ve got? Friend of the Zoom, Juancarlos, put us on to the way his friend deals with them.
NOTE: I know this sounds like a “friend of a friend”-type urban legend. I’ve actually met the guy though, he just ask that we keep his name mum for fear of reprisals.
It seems he’s come up with a clever way to mess with these fools. A fun way. He sent the last batch he’d gotten a note that read “I’d really like to believe you, but it all sounds almost too good to be true. How do I know this is actually a real person I’m dealing with and not some computerized fraud?”, some sketches, and the simple request that they photograph themselves in the poses provided.
On Thursday of last week, the following pictures were in his in box.
It gets even better though. There’s no way these Nigerian knuckleheads know what “Ot Poz My Neg Hole” means.
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