Sunday, February 04, 2007

Interviews Galore

About a dozen radio interviews in the last month and some tv spots (air date unknown) with ABC Boston and NBC Miami (The Today Show).

All kindly hosts with styles ranging from jokey and punchy, to mellow, and all asked smart questions.

Most asked "how does anyone fall for this? don't you have to be greedy?"
I continue to reply - no, it's enough to be naive (not a crime last I heard), or charitable, or chivalrous. Different people respond to different packaging.

All of the hosts are doing a service by publicizing the scam.

I'm enjoying all the accents.

Tings Dey Happen

Passed through San Francisco recently and saw a terrific one-man show by Dan Hoyle called Tings Dey Happen.
It's about his time in the Niger Delta, working on a thesis about oil politics,
with beautiful impersonations of Nigerian Ijaw revolutionaries, American and Scottish oil men, and pretty much everyone he ran into.
The show is sold out through February, extended through March.

Dear Landlord

Started the DEAR LANDLORD page.
So many people write in with tales of trying to find roommates or tenants, only to receive scam offers.
It's on the right-hand side of the main Scamorama page, along with the DEAD BANK CUSTOMER, JOB SCAM, LOTTO and other digests.