On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:48:06 -0700, Vaughn Treude <
vltreude@deru.com>
wrote:
> Yeah, I also get about one a day of these things. How anyone could fall
> for
> one these days, especially after they've been doing it so long, is
> beyond me.
> This was the first one I ever saw though that wasn't full of RANDOM
> CAPITALIZED PHRASES,
The all caps thing is a throwback to manual typewriters. The original
419's were done by snail mail, and one of the most readily tracable
features of a cylinder typewriter is the difference between caps and small
caps. Using all caps greatly reduced the tracability of the letter to the
machine.
I know of real estate brokers that respond to these.
--
--Alexander
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