With a film adaptation of JRR Tolkein’s The Hobbit now being made, Stephen Granades has re-imagined Thorin’s letter [^] to Bilbo Baggins as a Nigerian scam (419) email. "Dear MR BAGGINS, Fellow Conspirator,…I and my twelve companions have agreed to give you 10% of the total gold and jewels that the dragon Smaug now rests [...]
The CannibalRabbit bites back
Internet Crooks
There have been a couple of different views of internet scammers that I have read recently. At Wired.com [^] recently there was a comparison of the con-man in the digital and pre-internet ages. Lore Sjöberg argues that in earlier times the con-man was an artist, individually tailoring each scam for each victim. Once you had [...]