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I thought I’d humour stateez and click on their link, and was taken through to doublingstocks.com. I wasn’t at all surprised to see a sales letter with all the bold headlines promising great sums of wealth. Yawn yawn. So I clicked the red X to get out of there. But it wouldn’t let me. Then up popped Josh.

So the conversation went as follows:

Josh Says: Hello…

Me: hi josh

Josh Says: Hi, thanks for chatting with me today. Please note that I am actually not a real human, but a virtual smart agent that has been trained to intelligently answer your questions. If you would like to get started now, take advantage of this great offer, CLICK HERE

Me: no

Josh Says: Are you sure? Please remember this is 100% risk free with a full money-back guarantee. You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain. Just CLICK HERE to get started.

Me: really?

Josh Says: Absolutely, you can get started now by going to the following link CLICK HERE

Me: can’t we chat a little first?

Josh Says: Sorry but I cannot find an answer to your question. Please rephrase your question.

Me: i just want to talk.

Josh Says: Sorry but I cannot find an answer to your question. Please rephrase your question.

Me: not a very smart robot huh?

Josh Says: My name is Josh and I am not a real human. I am a virtual smart agent that has been trained to answer your important questions. Give it a try … what’s your question?

Me: what’s the capital of peru?

Josh Says: Sorry but I cannot find an answer to your question. Please rephrase your question.

Me: wrong it’s Lima

Josh Says: Sorry but I cannot find an answer to your question. Please rephrase your question.

Me: are you broken?

Josh Says: Sorry but I cannot find an answer to your question. Please rephrase your question.

Virtual smart agents, you gotta love em.

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Another one from our friends at Stateez:

October 19th Press Release:

Two geeks have created a ROBOT named MARL that has made them hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they claim that their ROBOT is not Illegal.

Press here to read the full story while you can:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?57970+REMOVED@yahoo.com

WARNING: Do Not Read This Unless You want to become rich as soon as possible!

Hi, our names are Michael and Carl, we are GEEKS, and we would like to show you how our robot makes us over $100,000 per year. But please DO NOT read our tricks unless you want to become rich as soon as possible.

Press here to read the full story while you can:
http://stateez.com/tr.php?57970+REMOVED@yahoo.com

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To not receive future offers/promotions from “Stock Trading Robot” please press on the below link and scroll to the bottom of the page:
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Or send us a letter at:

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Following on from my post about scammers working out of Bryn Mawr College I received a reply from the college after contacting them to alert them of the situation. Here is what they said:

Dear Stella,

Thank you for alerting us to this problem. We are currently addressing it, and it will be dealt with as soon as possible.

Call, F0032614, has been updated with this information.

If any of the above description is inaccurate or you can provide any more information that would help us to resolve this request, please contact the Help Desk at 610-526-7440 or via e-mail: help@brynmawr.edu.

Thank You,
Lucinda Newbill

Computing Services Help Desk
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
610.526.7440
help@brynmawr.edu

Notice how it’s addressed to Stella. Not my name. And the “Call, F0032614, has been updated with this information.” makes no sense to me.

Anyway, I just googled the email address that the scam came from - smillerc@brynmawr.edu, and some listings came up. It turns out that the email belongs to Stella Miller-Collett. From what I can gather Ms Miller-Collett is a Proffessor of archaeology at the college.

So I presume that the email I received was intended for Stella Miller-Collett, and that she has already complained to the IT department at the college about her email address falling into the wrong hands. At this time, this is only guess work. I’ll update when I hear more from the college.

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I started off, like most people, using Internet explorer. I then switched to Firefox when I discovered it. Then back to IE. Now I’m an avid Opera user. I still use the other two. Firefox for checking code with firebug, and IE for checking layouts render properly.

Here’s the browser visitor stats for the past 30 days:

A few months ago Google released their own browser - Chrome. Chrome is up there with the best of the rest, and as the stats show it is already starting to make an impression. Be interesting to see where it is in relation to the others 12 months from now.

I see a couple of visitors making it here via the Playstation 3. Nice to see people using their console to search. So how did you make your way here?

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