Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Multi-layered gaff
Occasionally I get emails from old software companies that I scarcely remember. I must have bought something from them 15 years ago, but I'm no longer sure what it was. Cadkas.de is one of those. I bought a PDF editor from them, used it once to make help files for an early edition of courseware, then lost the product.
Now Cadkas is joining the blockchain bubble:
Dear customer, I want to inform you about our new project. Reference Line Coin ICO We bring the reference line into the crypto world. Anybody who receives or sends a lot of money from their cryptocurrency wallet will know this problem. You have no idea where the money actually comes from. The good old reference line known from traditional bank transfers is not available for existing cryptocurrencies. We want to change this! What we want to create We want to create a new cryptocurrency based on an own blockchain which supports reference lines. Of course, you are free to leave the reference line blank if you want. We currently raise the money to create this new cryptocurrency. You can participate in the ICO if you simply send some Ethereum to us. Please note, that we currently do not have the actual coin ready. We want to use the money raised by this ICO to create the coin. https://www.referencecoin.coOkay. How does this differ from the standard "Nigerian" scam? We're trying to do something which may be helpful to you. Send us money and we won't promise any results. I guess we're looking at a two-stage sucker filter. If you're already a Nigerian sucker, you're accustomed to sending money by wire transfer. If you're already a Nigerian sucker AND a Bitcoin sucker, you've noticed that the Bitcoin fraud lacks one of the familiar elements of the Nigerian fraud, and you want your scams to be consistent. In other words, we want DOUBLE suckers to fall for this product. If you're not already a multi-layered sucker, you will disregard this message and we won't have to waste our time cultivating you. ¶ 11:43 AM
