Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3E92F8AB.8080809@braemarinc.com> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:28:27 -0500 From: Gary Van Sickle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030407 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [EXTREMELY OFF-TOPIC] The sad state of cgf's exciting new laptop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [snip scam story] That sucks dude. > PayPal started the clock running on getting my money back but, if it > wasn't too late by that time, it was when the clock finally ran out on > the investigation. In fact, as far as I can tell, their system almost > guarantees that slimeballs can make off with their cash with a minimal > amount of effort when something like this happens. They start an > investigation and then give the crook ten days to slowly gather his > belongings and get away. Pfaugh. > So this "PayPal" benefits nobody but criminals? Nice. > So, I'm now out so much money that I'm almost physically ill. It was money > that I'd been saving for a special birthday and now its gone. And, I > have nobody to blame but myself. Uh, no, you have nobody to blame but the crook who scammed you. The only blame you have in this is not watching "The X-Files" and learning something those who did learned long ago: Trust No One. > I have been trying to explain to my > wife just how incredibly stupid I've been for a week and today I think > she finally got it. She asked me "Why *were* you so stupid?" and I > didn't have an answer. Well, my momma always told me, "Stupid is as stupid does." You could try that, see how that goes over. ;-) [snip] > I'm off now to put in a bid for the Golden Gate bridge. The seller is > named "notascammer" and he's got a 25% positive rating on eBay. Sounds like > a sure thing... Well, just to be sure, this time you better use one of those "escrow services" I've been hearing about in the news. I don't know much about them, but I'm sure this "notascammer" guy can recommend a reputable one. ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/