The scammer scammed

[marycrawford]

This correspondence (gacked from Ansible) made me laugh out loud - it's a series of emails between a Nigerian scammer and someone posing as Randolph Carter, one of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos characters. "Randolph" builds up his nightmare tale until he manages to convince the scammer that dark forces are at work. The scammer then feels moved to give him advice:

There are evil forces, no doubt, but there is a power that is above all and that power is what my wife and myself has commited you to, so we are very confidence that no harm whatsoever shall come near you, if they rise up against you they will surely fall. All you need to do now is to be very carefull, make sure you do not sleep alone in one place, when it is night then go to where there are a lot of people, if possible sleep in a well secured and occupied hotel.

Comments

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

ROFL. There's another one I read, I can't think where, about a man who convinced the Nigerian fraud spammers to join his fake church. morfin once wrote back to one with this really bizarre offer to meet him under a bridge late at night with the money, and not tell anyone he was going and to destroy the email before he left, and he signed it "J.R. Ewing," but I don't think the guy got the joke. (J.R. was the villain from the old TV series "Dallas.")

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember J.R.
Looks like the Nigerians don't get reruns as much as we do. :-)

[roo2.livejournal.com]

This is just absolutely brilliant. I especially love how he mixed Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with NYPD Blue :-) Now I have images of this guy in Nigeria worried about this "CHTULHA" cult, as he called it. Maybe he got scared straight. :-)

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Ha, cool, the whole NYPD part was straight over my head since I've never seen it. (Well, I've never read Lovecraft either, but I picked up enough through cultural osmosis to get the joke here.)

I hope the guy was unable to sleep that night. :-)