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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