denman [email] said at 8:55 AM 06-11-2006: No, no, it's very clear: she needs all of our help, and we should band together to do something very special for her. Any ideas?
myriam [email] said at 11:03 PM 06-11-2006: There was a fascinating article in the New Yorker a few weeks back about some really smart professor dude who got swallowed into this scam and lost like $100,000 or some ridiculous sum. The article explored the psychological reasons somebody reasonably savvy could still come to trust the scammers. Pretty intriguing.
brandon [email] said at 11:28 AM 06-12-2006: There was a book I read a while back called the Informant that I still recommend if only for the stranger-than-fiction way that it proceeds. But the main focus of the story (a guy at Archer Daniels Midland) scams a bunch of his fellow execs with the Nigerian email scam. He bilked them for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And these weren't just dumb MBAs. Most of these guys had some kind of rigorous science background. But they fell for it. Greed is a powerful motivator.
kiche [email] said at 9:51 PM 06-11-2006: you should write her back, say that while we can't help her financially we can use our super powers to save her.
