{"id":243203,"date":"2010-01-28T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001339"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:14:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:14:50","slug":"short-interview-with-a-possible-419-scammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243203","title":{"rendered":"Short Interview With A Possible 419 Scammer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/012810-002-anonymous-phone-caller-thumb-300x207-36451.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The UK website Scam Detectives has published a two-part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scam-detectives.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/interview-with-a-scammer-part-one\/\">interview with a self-described former Nigerian 419 scammer<\/a>. Take all of this a healthy dose of skepticism&#8211;the author admits he has no way of verifying if anything the guy says is true. Oh, and the reason I call it a short interview is because halfway through the second call, the author tells the scammer he doesn&#8217;t like him and wants to hang up. Before that happens, though, you get to read about foot soldiers, something called a wash wash, and the response rate on scam email blasts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scam-detectives.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/interview-with-a-scammer-part-one\/\">&#8220;Interview With A Scammer, Part 1&#8221;<\/a>[Scam-Detectives.co.uk via <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/01\/28\/1624211\/Interview-With-a-Convicted-419-Scammer\">Slashdot<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK website Scam Detectives has published a two-part interview with a self-described former Nigerian 419 scammer. Take all of this a healthy dose of skepticism&#8211;the author admits he has no way of verifying if anything the guy says is true. Oh, and the reason I call it a short interview is because halfway through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}