{"id":1381,"date":"2004-03-17T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/03\/17\/a_bizarre_419_invitation"},"modified":"2004-03-17T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T15:03:09","slug":"a_bizarre_419_invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/03\/17\/a_bizarre_419_invitation","title":{"rendered":"A bizarre 419 invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got forwarded an exceptionally dumb 419 invitation through a mailing list I&#8217;m on, in which someone claiming to be Dr Mitchell Obi of some Nigerian financial organisation appeals for someone to do business with him as his &#8220;next of kin&#8221;?! Does this moron even know what a next of kin is?<\/p>\n<p>419&#8217;ers being dumb is nothing new &#8211; there are at least a dozen websites dedicated to baiting these idiots, getting them to say stupid things or hold up banners with what they think are their new business partners&#8217; names on them (actually insults made to look like names). I wonder how people as stupid as these could get that amount of money together?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/yusuf\/419-scam.htm\">Article on 419&#8217;ers targeting Muslims<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got forwarded an exceptionally dumb 419 invitation through a mailing list I&#8217;m on, in which someone claiming to be Dr Mitchell Obi of some Nigerian financial organisation appeals for someone to do&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}