On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:56:07 -0500, Mark Tapley
<mtapley at swri.edu> wrote:
All,
This looks so fictitious, I just have to ask:
Anyone know "Zephyr"?
Anyone else get a similar offer?
If no and no, be careful. I have a Mac Plus and don't need a NIB
newton. Been scammed once, so I'm highly tempted to drive up to Austin
and try to arrange a face-to-face meeting. Not tempted enough, though.
A quick search online shows a "Zephyr Carroll" as being a graduate of
Westwood High in 89, so it's certainly possible that this is a real
person. The email doesn't seem too fictitious to me, but maybe I'm just
to trusting :)
(age seems right given HS graduation date)
It's absurd what is public information and available for the googling,
but this is definitely a real person. Definitely.
It still may be a scam, and it may not really be him --- but there is
TONS of supporting evidence given name/location/age/email address/etc.
And lives 7 miles from that high school in the University Hills
neighborhood of Austin, TX.
Keith