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  Re: Fraud Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 08:33 +1000

#107129 — Re: Fraud

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> wrote:
> On 16/04/16 23:02, Joel Goldstick wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Mel Drosis via Python-list
>>> <python-list@python.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My phone my accounts my home network have all been affected because of
>>>> someone using coding from Python and Linux and GitHub and json. I don't even
>>>> know what this stuff is but how do I get rid of it all. It's ruined my life.
>
>
>> I'm curious as to what makes you think all this trouble was caused by
>> python, etc.  Did they leave a note?
>
>
> If this is genuine, then I don't want to be dismissive of the plea. However,
> given that Chris's response is quite enough for a genuine request to find a
> solution, I'll say that I smell a feint hint of troll ... :)

It sounds fairly plausible. "Help, I just got 'got'! Now what?"
*researches* "Hmm, I'm seeing a lot of stuff about Python and Linux
and stuff. Where can I get help about Python?"

The request is misdirected (we can't help), but not unreasonable IMO.

ChrisA

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