Fraud

[Michael Torrie]

On 04/16/2016 04:21 PM, Erik 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 at 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 
> ... :)

Reminds me of this classic story from 10 years ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/