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Scammer Admits, ‘Gentlemen, You Win’

October 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Less than 24 hours after publishing E-mail Scammer Offers Qur’an Signed by Obama, a post that provided a blow-by-blow description of a three-day exchange involving yours truly, my Colorado-based scam-baiting expert friend Skunkfeathers and some unscrupulous scammers in Kenya, an e-mail “admission of guilt” arrived from a person claiming to be the perpetrator:
Gentlemen, you win. [...]

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E-mail Scammer Offers Qur’an Signed by Obama

October 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments

During this presidential election season, I’ve written my fair share of posts about Barack Obama, his involvement with unscrupulous characters and the possibility that he isn’t even a legal citizen of the United States.  Now, it seems the Democratic Party presidential nominee has become a magnet for trouble on an international scale as evidenced by [...]

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‘Skunkfeathers’ Straightens Out Guardian Writer

September 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Before I had a chance to raise my virtual voice in opposition to an opinion piece by the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland, Mike Bay had already taken the bull by the horns and straightened out the British writer.
Freedland began his piece with the paragraph below (and it didn’t get any better):
The feeling is familiar. I had [...]

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Blogger Toys with Email Scammer: ‘Skunky — XII’

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

[Note: The post below was written by Skunkfeathers ("Dear Skunky"), a once-weekly contributor to this blog and one of the world’s most-prolific harassers of those who perpetuate e-mail scams. You’ll notice a lot of misspelled words in the communications from the scammers, but we leave them intact in order to show you how the [...]

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Man Accepts Blame for Plant Rights Movement

May 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments

An alert BMW reader and occasional guest-blogging friend informed me moments ago that he is willing to shoulder the blame for having planted a “seed” animal rights wackos almost four years ago that, unfortunately, appears to have blossomed into the fledgling plant rights movement described in a BMW post, Plant Rights Movement En Route to [...]

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