Playing with the e-mail scammers
When someone sends you an email scam, think of it as an opportunity for fun. They stopped replying to my emails after several responses.
Here is the exchange:
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Goodday,
Good Day,
How is everything with you? I picked interest in your artwork and decided to write you. I will like to know if your artwork can be purchased and shipped internationally?. I can email the artwork of interest and payment will be completed in full once you confirm my purchase order with a quotation.
Kindly let me know when you are in office and ready to take my artwork order also let me know if you accept either Visa Card or Master Card for payment furthermore you can email me your recently updated website or art price list in your response.
Best Regards
Yoshida
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Hi Yoshida,
Thank you for contacting me.
I’m curious which artwork you are interested in, I have available:
(1) Shoe-gazing — a 96-hour performance art video of me looking at my shoes. Audio track is optional.
(2) MDMA Buttplug — I think the title says it all. Leave it to your imagination.
(3) The Salmonella Experience — A crowdsourced experiment on Mechanical Turk, where I send people salmonella-infested eggs, which they ingest and document over a 4-day period.
Sincerely,
Scott Kildall
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Hi Scott,
Good to hear from you please can you email me the cost of three available pieces
Thanks
Yoshida
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Hi Yoshida,
Which one do you like best from my list?
That is the most important question. Price is secondary.
Best,
Scott
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(3) The Salmonella Experience — A crowdsourced experiment on Mechanical Turk, where I send people salmonella-infested eggs, which they ingest and document over a 4-day period.
Thanks,
Yoshida
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Hi Yoshida,
Thank you for choosing The Salmonella Experience.
I had thought that MDMA Buttplug would be more to your liking, for some reason. I do want to give you one last chance to reconsider. For, once we go down a financial path, then we cannot turn back and choose another artwork.
So, are you sure about The Salmonella Experience?
Question: What attracted you to this project over the other ones that were available?
Thank you,
Scott Kildall
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A friend of mine pointed me to this TED talk by James Veitch. So, obviously I’m not the first:
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