[Corpora-List] logging in to public computers... and scammers scammed! :-)

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Gille-Maurice de Schryver sent this to some of Patrick Hanks's friends, but I read it and thought
it deserved a larger audience - go to the URL and weep... with laughter!
:)

"In most cases it's simply the result of having logged into GMail using a public computer and forgetting to log out. The next user of that same computer then simply gets in, changes the password, and voila....  the nicest stories are actually those where the scammer ends up being scammed. Here is one of my favourites: http://www.sweetchillisauce.com/ntales/DQ1.html ... if you like it, there are more on the site"

Best
Ramesh

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences,
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 ; Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766 [Room NX08, 10th
Floor, North Wing of Main Building]
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr/
Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project): http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/

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