Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 12, 2017
Transcript:
"Dear Beloved Friend, I know this message will come to you as surprised. I am prince in Nigeria. There are great sums in U.S. America bank. I am here seeking avenue transfer funds to you." Goat: Why do scammers still bother to send these poorly worded, obviously fraudulent emails? Rat: Must be guys who don't know how stupid they sound. Larry: Why no one answer?
barrycarter2 almost 8 years ago
It appears gocomics has also changed the time at which new comics are released along with many other things, most of which are bad.
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Good one! LMAO!
Kaputnik almost 8 years ago
For the crocs, that’s actually a bit better written than their usual.
Lee Cox almost 8 years ago
It figures!
hariseldon59 almost 8 years ago
Why no Zebra?
nosirrom almost 8 years ago
They’d have better luck selling bridges in Brooklyn.
Joliet Jake almost 8 years ago
All they have to do is hook one in every several thousand, and it’s worth their time and effort.
ursamaj almost 8 years ago
So the crocs are behind it! That wuld splain so much.
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
what would the crocodiles do with the money they scammed off of? buy more beer of course!
Sherlock Watson almost 8 years ago
Give it up, Larry — nobody falls for a crock like that anymore.
Number Three almost 8 years ago
I recently watched a Family Guy episode where Carter falls for it and he and Peter end up going to Nigeria to get their money back.
xxx
railwayman001 almost 8 years ago
And you would think the KKK was doing this to portray minorities as Marxist con men.
knight1192a almost 8 years ago
I remember the first time I got one of these emails. Knew it was a con job but at the time didn’t know how wide spread it was. Printed it out with the intention of taking it to my local police figuring they could at least get in touch with the FBI or someone and find these guys. Don’t know why I never did that. That was either some time in the late ‘90s or around 2000 or 2001. Now the scam is so prolific it’s a joke.
mabrndt Premium Member almost 8 years ago
@BARRYCARTER2: it depends on what you mean by “released”. Gocomics e-mails me the strips every morning, and they were sent around the same 2:30AM US Central Time as prior daily e-mails. The website was up (could access yesterday’s strips online) when it usually first shows today’s. Maybe there was a hardware problem that went unnoticed.
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
Uh-oh. The crocs have evolved to the use of computers! All we dummies are doomed….
skipper1992 almost 8 years ago
Oh, come on, the Nigeria thing is beneath even the crocs …
Rina almost 8 years ago
deja vu. I remember cleary the exact same joke (even featuring the PBS crocs as scammers) but in another comic strip. please tell me I’m not crazy, and can anyone remember what comic strip it was?
nebbybear21 about 7 years ago
Check out James Vietch on Ted Talks to see some real adventures in replying to spam.
SonicFan91 over 5 years ago
You know why
wowhitener almost 4 years ago
Maybe there really is a Nigerian prince out there trying to give away his fortune but no one will answer him…