If you’re offering a quiz (e.g. on a newspaper’s website), how can you prevent or reduce cheating even though you’d like to link to the solutions right at the beginning so that those who don’t like quizzes can learn something, too?
Vorhin auf dem Bücherflohmarkt
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“im Lauren from us”
Whether it’s “Helen” in May (displayed striked-out here) or “Lauren” now (underlined) – in reality it’s just dating and advanced-fee fraud:
You can see more my photo’sim Lauren from usHallo, my name’s
HelenLaurenIm
28,29, now i live in Ashville NC, USA.
I am woman who’s looking to meet some new people and friends.
You can see more my photo’s and about me
at my Website Home Page: http://[…].110mb.com
if you wanna chat plz send me letter.my personal e-mail:
kurey.helen@gmail.comsunny.lauren78@gmail.comi’ll be wait 4 your letter with a great impatience
Lauren
Helenp.s Du darfst mir auf dem Deutschen schreiben.
Ich verstehe ein wenig Deutsche die sprache.
(The last two lines in wrong German re-translate to “You may write to me on the German. I understand a little Germans the language.”)
So we see: Got one year older, changed the name and removed the link to a free-hosted website. Also included a cheap black-and-white photo instead of an überkitschy color photo. The rest is the same.
Don’t reply, they’re only criminals.
Laguages Matter!
“Celebrating linguistic diversity, plurilingualism, lifelong language learning”
Today, September 26, is the “European Day of Languages” with its motto “Talk to me”, which I already wrote about last year (and added the language names now) – this year, it’s somewhat embedded into the UNESCO’s “International Year of Languages” and its motto “Languages matter!”. And they certainly mean more than just the 200 into which they translated that slogan – probably all 6000-7000…
If you take a look at this 200-language PDF you probably know hadly any of them… For the fun of it, I’ve picked a few languages here:
Onhu awe amaghami iyaar! (Abuan)
Mehɔˊ b, chǒm éche édé etógnέn bwǎmbwǎm. (Bakossi)
Po dabe sege yai nai dao. (Dadibi)
Ennimi za mugaso! (Ganda)
Naɠafik naíta gwamatàt! (Ik)
Jiɛmuye ga naforo ni ! (Jɛnaama)
Oporlu marong i tongotinangaran (Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan)
Tia’lejo ni okpo (Ma’di)
Kia ora te reo! (Pa’umotu)
Rimayninchiskunan ancha allin. (Quechua Eastern Apurimac)
¡Te re’o henua e hauha’a ro ‘ā! (Rapa Nui)
Ia ha’afaufa’ahia te reo! (Tahitian)
Ago zege’a boro taugi. (Uare)
Di langwij adem doz aalweiz mata. (Vincentian Creole English)
Wlu -wee’- klein” kɔn -tɩ’. (Wobé)
Kennem kennem yunjon wal kerma paiem. (Yu We (North Wahgi))
Ciiney gonda hinfaani ! (Zarma)
Hopping to hear from me
The continuation of “Peace Khalifa’s” love scam mail with the strange word “teassting”, or more precisely, “her” second mail – the subject was:
HOPPING TO HEAR FROM YOU
Video, please! Even though your bust size doesn’t seem that large, I’d really like to see you hopping in order to hear from me. Oh, is your ear clogged, and you’re trying to get it free this way?
Or do you mean the harvest of hop? You’d be at the perfect place here in the Hallertau! So hurry up, the hopping is almost done!
Hello my Dearest.
My name is Peace from Liberia in West Africa ,5.3ft tall, dark in complexion,(never married before )
Texts in parentheses often are used to give an explaination or reason for the text before. So your being unmarried is the reason for your dark skin color? Now who would have thought that…
and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar as a result of the civil war that was fought in my country.My late father Dr Wilson Khalifa was the personal advicer to the former head of state before the rebels attacked our house one early morning and killed my mother and my father in cold .It was only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to a near by country Senegal where i am leaving now.
And where are you going now? Or did you mean “living now”? And, well, I think it’s amazing that you managed to take your modeling photo with you – most people had rather thought about more important things.
I would like to know more about you.Your likes and dislikes,your hobbies and what you are doing presently.
A hobby that I’m also performing right now is making fun of spam and scam mails with writing and/or translation mistakes. What I don’t like: Criminals like you.
But I thing that you are not really that interested in these things, you just want money.
I will tell you more about myself in my next mail.Attached here is my picture and I will send another picture in my next mail.I will also like to see your picture.
So you can see what that moron that fell for you looks like? Do you scammers collect such photos as trophies, like some scam-baiters do with specially arranged pictures (with signs etc.)?
Hoping to hear from you soonest
yours in love
peace
And, as already announced last time, there’s already the hint that one is supposed to help the “poor fugitive child” to transfer her inherited fortune out of country. But before that, there will of course be fees to pay, fees and more fees, and you’ll never see anything of the promised millions, since that’s just the way these scammers work.
And it’s not the first time that “she” is perfoming this stung, already last year “she” was active with basically the same text using the first name Sandra (though the first mail seemed to have been missing)…
PS: If you, dear reader, happen to own the rights of these photos that the scammers used: a brief e-mail is sufficient and I’ll remove them. Or do you know the actual source?