MetaFilter posts tagged with sucker

What Not To Do and How Not To Do It

fenriq — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:27:41 -0800

Idiot Tries to Hire Hacker to Change his GPA
Why study when you can just hire a hacker to adjust your GPA to something more to your liking? Or not.
And now an amazing (and scary) amount of his personal information is pwned!

"DEAR SIR, MAY I CRAVE YOUR INDULGENCE TO OPEN THIS BUSINESS DISCUSSION BY A FORMAL LETTER OF THIS SORT. MY NAME IS MARIAM ABACHA..."

mowglisambo — Tue, 09 May 2006 14:02:04 -0800

[419Filter] The Perfect Mark: After losing thousands and being sentenced to prison, John Worley is still convinced the Nigerian governmental officials and their fortune exist.

foist — Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:05:26 -0800

Hey, it's a clever flash game ... umm ... something's off here. Never a sucker for banner ads, I click on an ad from Yahoo for some type of "advertising trivia" game. Cool enough, but it seems all of the questions are about laundry products, P&G laundry products. The capper came when the started streaming a Tide ad as part of the "game." So naturally, the whois is some entity in Cincinnati.

Jeez, do I feel like a simp.

timothompson — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:11:48 -0800

There's a sucker born every minute. Some guy raises over $3,000 by letting people post messages on his site called sendmeadollar.com. Is this a new model for ecommerce? [via memepool]