{"id":886,"date":"2006-12-29T23:39:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/29\/419_scammers_using_yahoo_messenger"},"modified":"2006-12-29T23:39:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:39:58","slug":"419_scammers_using_yahoo_messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/29\/419_scammers_using_yahoo_messenger","title":{"rendered":"419 scammers using Yahoo Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone else had 419 scammers try to chat them up using Yahoo (or any other) Messenger?  Just now I had some idiot pretending to be one &#8220;Dr Lawson Koffi&#8221;, whose supposed position of influence I didn&#8217;t bother to check, not that it matters because I wasn&#8217;t talking to Dr Koffi anyway but to an impersonator sitting in a Lagos cyber caf&eacute;.  Anyway I allowed his messages, but then checked my email and found out why someone I did not know had added me to his buddy list.  Of course, I know these people can be devious &#8211; they often appeal to you as a &#8220;brother in Islam&#8221; or &#8220;brother in Christ&#8221; &#8211; but it&#8217;s the first time someone has tried to bother me on the IM system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone else had 419 scammers try to chat them up using Yahoo (or any other) Messenger? Just now I had some idiot pretending to be one &#8220;Dr Lawson Koffi&#8221;, whose supposed position of&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}