Tuesday, November 18, 2008

API is going to be the next nigerian bank scam!

I don't know if you heard it here first but I'm definitely calling it now.  The latest posting says they will only release the information to readers who have been "good to API" and they are requiring your full name, email, address, city, state, zip, and phone number.  This is how those scams start out, they get all of your info and then ask for just a little more to verify it is really you...or they have another way to get you to disclose personal info like bank accounts or social security numbers through some form of social engineering.  I guarantee that any fool that gives these foreign scheisters their info will have that info harvested into some sort of malicious scheme...whether it be spam, fraud, or otherwise.


I think it's important to look at why he's doing this...requiring personal information in order to establish a list of believers who will be the only receipients of his "evidence" when it is released.  It makes absolutely no sense, because once the information is released (it won't be because it doesn't exist, but that's beyond the point, i'm playing devil's advocate here), it will immediately be all over the internet and news.  If this were real it's big news, it's not going to stay with the group of "insiders" that subscribe to API's news update...even if only fervent supporters sign up for this "service" I guarantee it will get out to the rest of us within minutes...otherwise what's the point of releasing it at all?  So a half dozen lunatics with tin foil hats can pat themselves on the back?  That's not why API has made such a big deal out of this, Chief Editor Korir wants worldwide attention.  He also states that the subscribers will be the first to know about his new website when it launches.  Again, it makes no sense to keep this stuff to supporters, one because it's futile, the info will get out, and two because if any of this were real it's pointless if nobody knows about it.

The goal here is to get the most gullible, stupid and paranoid morons to put their blind faith into this man Korir, who they have never and will never meet, in order to eventually fleece them out of their savings.  I predict API will need money for some service they claim they will provide, like starting a website or transporting sensitive documents or something else...and these followers will fall prey to the scam because they need something to believe in to keep their minds off the reality that is their sad and pitiful white trash lives.

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