21 Oct
2002
21 Oct
'02
10:46 a.m.
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, JD Gouws wrote:
Then why go at length to describe the W.O.P.R.
lettering and the BASF
disks.
To make the plea seem authentic.
There is also mention to directly contact the
authorities something a
scammer would want to avoid at all costs. Even the handover of such a
system if it's dontated to a boy would be caught out once there is no
boy to receive it.
I'm not impugning Todd; he's just passing the message along. I've heard
of people trying stupider things.
Thieves are usually dumb, in South Africa we had
thieves in the 80's
that stole computers and tried to sell them as vcr's/type writers/all
kinds of other creative names. They also might have thought the heavier
the more worth..
It depends on what kind of burglary this was. Most are usually smash and
grab. Thieves don't usually try to heft a 100 pound computer out a
window.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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