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Watch out for this Y Combinator spam.
- AndrewWarner 16y agoYou don't even include your email in your hn bio. The guy must have done a lot of work to find you. Odd that someone who would put in that much research still doesn't understand that all-caps is a clear tipoff.
- Tichy 16y agoMaybe the mail was in one of those HN excel sheets?
- nyef 16y agoLike any hackers don't know that Nigeria itself is a dead giveaway :)
- powrtoch 16y agoPerhaps Nigerian keyboards are CAPS only?
- jackowayed 16y agoI've looked at his profile before, and I kind of remember his email being there. He may have removed it due to the spam.
- touqen 16y agoHis website (linked to in his profile) has an email address on it.
- ceilingfish 16y agoIs it me, or is actually targetting hackers with a 419 a bit like a buffalo trying to hunt lion?
- CWuestefeld 16y agoThis isn't really a 419. It sounds to me like the guy honestly wants Gabriel's help -- not as a sucker, but genuinely as a partner. He believes that Gabriel has skills that the bad guy can use to steal other people's money. Of course, he might very well turn around and cut Gabriel out of his cut of the loot, but it looks at this stage like he wants a partner in crime.
- ryanjmo 16y agoReally!?! That is exactly what someone doing this would want you to think...
- chasingsparks 16y agoHow many people have actually received this?
- nailer 16y agoIt's almost too subtle.
- blaix 16y agoSomeone needs to update Nigeria's Wikipedia page to list spam as its major export.