the #internet is a lucrative place for #scammers
(This case of yet another senior woman being badly scammed brought tears to Kitboga's eyes, who got started with busting online scammers due to his own grandmother getting scammed. But this case ended well, fortunately.)
"We uncovered a scam that had been going on for 7 years and saved an older woman from the scammers who were destroying her life."
0:00 Laying a #Trap #web - #net
04:36 Scammer falls for our trap!
09:15 Dr David
12:12 Wrong address
14:36 We found a victim
18:05 Explaining the scam
21:04 Confronting her scammer
27:18 Seven years of scamming
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Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Jamie Osborne
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Written for writers rather than programmers, but frustrating in your case.
I think Gruber took on the extra load (perl spaghetti?) to make it more logical in use — probably never envisioning it’s popularity or endless reimplementations, having predated our GitHub style open source collaborative explosion and probably only ever considering the CPAN Perl archive (at most, if at all).
Aral Balkan
in reply to Jamie Osborne • • •Jamie Osborne
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I’ve heard him admit some quirks / shortsightedness, but I think he’d repeat some unless the markup could remain natural to writers. The conventions grew from text email and newsgroups, where they were never intended to be read as formatted html.
The other was to make it look as little like “markup” as possible, and therefore, intuitive (the basic emphasis, bullets and headers are easily understood – even if reference links and tables are harder to write/dev than to read).