{"id":9038,"date":"2006-06-28T23:29:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2006-06-28T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:29:21","slug":"scamming-the-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9038","title":{"rendered":"Scamming the Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/woodenKeyboard.jpg\">If you didn&#8217;t see this on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" target=\"new\">Boing Boing<\/a>, you really should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.419eater.com\/html\/john_boko.htm\" target=\"new\">check it out<\/a>. We love how scamming\/goofing on the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advance_fee_fraud\" target=\"new\">419 scammers<\/a> has become something of a Net pastime. This guy convinced a Nigerian &#8220;Advance Fee&#8221; scammer that he was too busy administering a $150,000 scholarship fund for talented woodcarvers to collect the money of his unknown dead relatives assets. Through a series of email exchanges, he convinces the scammer to carve (or at least have carved) a replica of a Commodore 64 computer. Hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t see this on Boing Boing, you really should check it out. We love how scamming\/goofing on the so-called 419 scammers has become something of a Net pastime. This guy convinced a Nigerian &#8220;Advance Fee&#8221; scammer that he was too busy administering a $150,000 scholarship fund for talented woodcarvers to collect the money &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scamming the Scammers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}