Recently, I was skimming through the various other (*cough*lesser*cough*) gaming blogs and ran across this lengthy, but extremely well told gaming scam from Eve Online.

GOD DAMN, this is a good read and is as fine a caper as anything David Mamet has written, but without the annoying stilted dialogue. Better yet, no legal consequences!

I read some comments about how this is a morality play about “the emotional salience of interactions” (I won’t embarass the poor s.o.b. by linking that) . Am I taking crazy pills here? I don’t even think that is anything, and I do know what all those words mean. If that’s the kind of crap they teach in college in the 21st century, the future is dead.

Usually the scammers aren’t very literate, or literate AT ALL, which makes this story all the more appealing — but ultimately, it is just another scam. He makes no apologies; he asks for no forgiveness. And he certainly doesn’t give a clown’s ass about emotional salience.

There’s a sucker born every minute. And two to take him.