WTF?

The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 10 Dec 2002
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3658

maa3210 Dec 2002, 13:40original
I scanned the recent message on the Urth archive with some chagrin - what has the world come to when a Wolfe mailing list is used to pull off an identity scam in Nigeria? It's kind of fitting. I had a similar message in my individual inbox last week, from a different sender. Anyone else get this message individually, or was it just me? Take care. Marc Aramini
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes10 Dec 2002, 16:55original

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I scanned the recent message on the Urth archive with some chagrin - what has the world come to when a Wolfe mailing list is used to pull off an identity scam in Nigeria?
Odd. I did not receive this.
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It's kind of fitting.
Indeed it is. And while I have not seen any specifically Wolfean responses to the Nigeria scam, members of this list might be amused by this Lovecraftian response (not totally irrelevant; there are some clear Lovecraft hommages in "New Sun"): http://www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html
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I had a similar message in my individual inbox last week, from a different sender. Anyone else get this message individually, or was it just me? Take care.
I've gotten a number of these over the last year or so -- they've almost become an art form of their own, a sort of constantly mutating and shifting set of details around a basic core of grift.
Roy C. Lackey10 Dec 2002, 20:48original

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Marc Aramini wrote: I scanned the recent message on the Urth archive with some chagrin - what has
the world come to when a Wolfe mailing list is used to pull off an identity scam in Nigeria? It's kind of fitting. I had a similar message in my individual inbox last week, from a different sender. Anyone else get this message individually, or was it just me? Take care.<< Yeah, I got the list message too. I've also had the same (or similar; I didn't read it that closely) message several times in recent months. I deleted it but, iirc, it had a"sent" date sometime in October? I hope Ranjit doesn't let the message even appear in the archives. Surely he can remove it. -Roy

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