scam
Original: scam on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with long reddish hair speaks to a man seated at a computer.
Woman: You're doing the "Nigerian Prince" scam. That's the oldest con on the internet! You'd have to be an idiot to fall for it.
Panel 2:
The man, calm and confident.
Man: Precisely.
Panel 3:
The man explains.
Man: Why do you think all e-mail scams are stupid? Why do they feature implausible stories and badly written English? It's a low-pass filter for morons!
Panel 4:
The man continues.
Man: I am selectively locating the most catastrophic bumblefucks on the planet and extracting their wealth.
Panel 5:
The woman, uncertain.
Woman: But is that okay? Aren't those people the least likely to have wealth and power?
Panel 6:
The man turns to face her, then back toward the computer.
Man: Hoo boy. We need to have a talk.
Citation text below the comic: CITATION: "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are From Nigeria," Cormac Herley 2019, sent to me by Dave Luebke]
Votey:
It turns out that while I don't take outside ideas for comics, I apparently take outside citations.
A woman with long reddish hair speaks to a man seated at a computer.
Woman: You're doing the "Nigerian Prince" scam. That's the oldest con on the internet! You'd have to be an idiot to fall for it.
Panel 2:
The man, calm and confident.
Man: Precisely.
Panel 3:
The man explains.
Man: Why do you think all e-mail scams are stupid? Why do they feature implausible stories and badly written English? It's a low-pass filter for morons!
Panel 4:
The man continues.
Man: I am selectively locating the most catastrophic bumblefucks on the planet and extracting their wealth.
Panel 5:
The woman, uncertain.
Woman: But is that okay? Aren't those people the least likely to have wealth and power?
Panel 6:
The man turns to face her, then back toward the computer.
Man: Hoo boy. We need to have a talk.
Citation text below the comic: CITATION: "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are From Nigeria," Cormac Herley 2019, sent to me by Dave Luebke]
Votey:
It turns out that while I don't take outside ideas for comics, I apparently take outside citations.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman with long reddish hair confronts a man at a computer, saying he's running the "Nigerian Prince" scam, the oldest con on the internet that only an idiot would fall for. The man calmly replies, "Precisely." He explains that email scams are deliberately stupid with implausible stories and bad English because it's a "low-pass filter for morons" he uses to selectively locate "the most catastrophic bumblefucks on the planet and extract their wealth." The woman asks if that's okay, since those people are the least likely to have wealth and power. The man turns to her and says, "Hoo boy. We need to have a talk." A citation under the comic credits the bit to Cormac Herley's 2019 paper "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are From Nigeria," sent in by Dave Luebke. The red votey button below reads, in handwritten text on a blank panel: "It turns out that while I don't take outside ideas for comics, I apparently take outside citations."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.