# WTF? *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 10 Dec 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### maa32 *10 Dec 2002, 13:40* 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-Oakes *10 Dec 2002, 16:55 · follows maa32* > 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. > 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 > 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. Lackey *10 Dec 2002, 20:48 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* >> 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 ---