Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:19:00 GMT
Janella Spears doesn’t think she’s a sucker or an easy mark.
Besides her work as a nursing administrator, Spears – no relation to the well-known pop star – also teaches CPR and is a reverend who has married many couples. She also communicates with lightning-fast sign language with her hearing-impaired husband.
So how did this otherwise lucid, intelligent woman end up sending nearly half a million dollars to a bunch of con artists running what has to be one of the best-known Internet scams in the world?
Spears fell victim to the “Nigerian scam,” which is familiar to almost anyone who has ever had an e-mail account.
When Spears began to doubt the scam, she got letters from the President of Nigeria, FBI Director Mueller, and President Bush. Terrorists could get the money if she did not help, Bush’s letter said. Spears continued to send funds. All the letters were fake, of course.
Posted by spooneybarger
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:01:00 GMT
MTV’s new video hosting site is apparently bleeping out the names of file sharing sites in Weird Al Yankovic’s famous 2006 song “Don’t Download This Song.” The opening verse to the song goes as follows:
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA
Yet, in that new MTV version, the last line is “Like BLEEP or BLEEP or BLEEP or BLEEP” rather than naming the four file sharing programs
Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:41:00 GMT
A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher’s sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.
Posted by spooneybarger
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:47:00 GMT
use it to send press releases back in time…
A news story describing a successful launch of China’s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.
Posted by spooneybarger
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:45:00 GMT
The Knights Templar are demanding that the Vatican give them back their good name and, possibly, billions in assets into the bargain, 700 years after the order was brutally suppressed by a joint venture between the Pope and the King of France.
If the Holy See doesn’t comply, the warrior knights, renowned for liberating the Holy Land, will deploy that most fearsome of weapons: a laborious court case through the creaking Spanish legal system.
Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:01:00 GMT
at first i was going to make fun of joe biden, then this comment ( one of a couple by the user ) caught my eye…
Simply legalize and regulate child pornography. That would protect children from being forced into it (like any of them REALLY are who are over 4 years of age), and would make a good revenue stream for some of these families.
Also, they aren’t going to be able to find these ‘illegal files’ if they do something as SIMPLE as zip them and password them, etc.
Even with monitoring software… you can’t see what is in a file if it is passworded with a 50 digit/letter password made up of letters, numbers and characters like &.
Posted by spooneybarger
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:56:00 GMT
If Mr. Spitzer were to resign, Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson would serve out the remainder of his term. Mr. Paterson, who is legally blind, would become the first black governor of New York. State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican, would assume the duties of the lieutenant governor.
just think… joe bruno, one step by a blind man off the curb into traffic away from being governor…
Posted by spooneybarger
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:19:00 GMT
An audio recording made on November 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during the mass suicide or murder of over 900 members of the cult.
Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:45:00 GMT
Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn’t wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team’s playoff victory Saturday, a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him.
Posted by spooneybarger
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:17:00 GMT
we forgot to pay the bill. d’oh!
Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI’s lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations.
Posted by spooneybarger
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:29:00 GMT
A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was doing, authorities said Sunday.
Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, called 911 on Saturday and told an emergency dispatcher he had killed Jana Shearer, 21, and was boiling her body parts at his mother’s home, said Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith.
When authorities arrived at the home, they found Shearer’s mutilated body, one ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a fork sticking out of some human flesh sitting on a plate on the kitchen table.
Authorities said it was unclear whether McCuin consumed any part of Shearer’s body.
