{"id":646746,"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.com\/index\/646746","title":{"rendered":"Short Interview With A Possible 419 Scammer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/012810-002-anonymous-phone-caller-thumb-300x207-36451.jpg?w=780\">         <\/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":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ifo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}