The Clever Shark

Amusing things to do in big-box stores. Never be bored shopping again!

A wealth of resources on the various permutations of the 419 scam. Remember, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and no one will give you millions of dollars just for the use of your bank account. Don’t be a sucker.

I received this in my inbox today. I have fairly strict spam checking, so I was surprised that this fell through the filters. Anyway, it’s basically a 419 scam, where someone is promised a certain amount of money for helping someone else retrieve a larger amount of money. For those who are wondering why it’s called a 419, it’s because scams of this type are so prevalent in Nigeria that a section of the penal code, section 419, was created specifically to deal with it. I’m a little surprised that anyone still gets caught up in that nonsense in 2006!
This is a bit of an evolution in the 419 scam. In this case the “sender” pretends to be someone who needs your help in retrieving property which is supposedly legally his. The text of the spam message is included further down. Continue reading A new twist on the “419” scam idea.

The essence of rabbit. No, it’s not a flavoring for soup, but a surprisingly large mandala made out of bunny cartoons.

There’s much less to the UK’s recent terror trials than the prosecution cares to admit. From the fictitious “red mercury” to the non-existent ricin behind the “ricin plot” of a couple of years ago, it seems that anti-terror busts in the UK are just as, well, “substantial” as the ones held in the US.

Disused stations of the London Underground. Which, as we all know from “A fish called Wanda”, is not a terrorist organization.

The Conservative Party of Canada is under fire for its (non-) position on the war in Lebanon, so what’s a party to do? Ask their contributors to send in more money, of course!

Congo politicians denies charges of cannibalism. He also promises to devour defeat political opponents at the polls.

The US Naval Safety Center’s safety photo collection. You have got to check these out… and wonder how some of the dumbasses in these pictures actually survived, perhaps to breed incredible stupidity into a whole new generation of humans.

Here’s a graphical representation of the body count for the current conflict in the Lebanon. Hopefully this will stop before they run out of people to kill.