Con Men Lose Their Cool in the E-Mail Era
The video is going to be on the same topic, so you may or may not want to wait until that’s out, depending on your preferred method for absorbing Alt Text into your system.
There are a number of good books on classic cons, one of my favorites being Rip-Off: A Writer’s Guide to Crimes of Deception.
5:38 am, July 2, 2008
Loved it. It moved me in ways a satire column is not really supposed to move people. Bravo!
That really was ssomething, Lore. You’ve really got it, kid, and I know just the place to make a killing with it. Why don’t we talk over some good beers later and I’ll let you in on the opertunity of a lifetime.
Really the best I’ve seen in a long time, Lore; great work. Far more pathos than your average plea for help from a faraway royal needing only your bank account to escape his current predicament.
Hmm, I agree that this is great. But you seem to have dropped your Wired, trendy/geeky persona and slipped into classical English-major mode.
SHE-RA AND DR. MCNINJA! SHE-RA AND DR. MCNINJA!
For only $1 more, I’ll sell you this little *blue* button to get you down?
If all the con tricks and flim-flammery fall by the wayside do they become Ex-cons? And if the Nigerian Royal family are a bunch of grifters why do I now possess a certificate stating that I am the Crown Prince of Lagos and 237th in line to the throne (all for the price of a small family car, HA!)
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