[Cryptography] The Best 419 Message I've Seen

[John Ioannidis]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Jon Callas <jon at callas.org> wrote:
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> I would love to send this along, but it would get eaten by spam filters. I just got a 419 spam alleging to be from the FBI. You see, in their worldwide surveillance, they discovered where I overpaid some bill, and if I just fill out these details, they'll return my money.
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> I laughed so hard. It's really brightened up my day.
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>         Jon
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This is brilliant.

Reminds me of the telephone scam where the "bank representative" would
tell you to key in your PIN on your phone rather than tell it to them,
so they couldn't steal it.

/ji