Ushas the horse has a friend - meet Pedro the Sloth

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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:06 pm

for about a month I've been baiting this Senegal based lad claiming to be a young lady in a refugee camp with lots of money she just needs a foreign partner to help her get out of the country. Fortunately she has found her knight on a white steed.... well kind of... she's actually just got the horse.

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Hello Kate my little foal.

I hope that you had a very nice weekend and I hope that you were not troubled at all.

I want to let you know that one of my friends here has agreed to help us out and he has been working all weekend (when he was awake, he does sleep a lot) to try and get into the bank accounts. He is called Pedro and I have copied him on this email - you can trust him so it is alright that he knows about us. He's very clever as you can see he's managed to set his own mailbox up and he's got a lot of experience out in the real world - he's from South America.

How are you getting on with finding a new barrister? As soon as you have one let me know as we should be into the accounts by the end of today so can send some money as soon as you have a new barrister.

Nuzzles

Ushas

PS: Pedro, Whilst you were asleep I did an fast Fourier transform on that last set of SHA512 hashes you found. The first prime is 287736521 and the second one is a 256 bit integer in a Fibonacci series. That should give you a start on the Danish accounts when (if?) you wake up. I'm in Lab 19 this morning but I'm doing dressage this afternoon (vet's orders - they want to check that pastern injury has sorted itself out) so I'll be either in the arena or the south paddock - come see me when you have something - U.

Did I mention that my friend Pedro (here played by Thomas the Tank) is a mathematical genius. Regrettably it slipped my mind to mention he is a three-toed sloth...

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Ushas
As I was climbing down from my rest in the trees this afternoon, it was
clear to me that the second prime is actually a Lucas number, rather than an ordinary Fibonacci, as I'm sure you are well aware by now. In any case, I dreamed the solution to the SHA512s, and the Danish accounts are now ours (or will be, when I get round to booting the computer)!

Is this the poor little girl you were telling me about? Or was
that another dream?

Typing this has made me very sleepy, so I won't come and watch your
dressage. Have fun, and hope your pastern is not so painful now.

Goodnight
Pedro

Now you think anyone with half a brain would see something just a little bit wrong here wouldn't you? Not this lad.

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Hello My Darling Ushas

Thanks for your lovely mail and understanding, please i will like you to try and see that you continue to take good care of your self for me until we meet each other face to face in your country.

Please Darling, i really appreciate all your kind efforts, My love, please try and see that you contact this Lawyer which i have lastly gotten his information.

I will wait for your next mail after contacting this Lawyer my love, so that things will work out for us soonest pending my arrival to meet with you over there face to face.

I NEED YOU SOON AND HAVE A NICE DAY

YOU`S ALWAYS IN LOVE
KATE

She even (after a little bit of prodding) wrote Pedro to thank him

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Dearest Pedro
Is my pleasure to write you this time and also to thank you for all your kind help and work which you have been rendering to my fiancee Ushas and me.

I pray that almighty God will keep on giving you Wisdom to perform signs and wonders.

I will keep in touch and have a good day.

YOU`S FAITHFULLY
KATE

Pedro being a good sloth, wrote back just as soon as he woke up (2 days later)

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My dear KATE
It is my pleasure and privilege to be able to help you in this way. As you
know, Ushas is a very kind and gentle being, but not very advanced when it comes to number theory, especially on variations of the Fibonacci sequence. On the other hand, he possesses beautiful fetlocks, which you, as his fiancee, will be privileged to see in their full glory.

Kate, I have a favor to ask of you. If you have any fresh young crecopia
leaves, please send them to Ushas for me (I am always asleep when the
mailman calls). The frozen ones here are disgusting!

Good night.

Your friend
Pedro

mmm... leaves... but we have set the lad a bit of a task here...

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Thanks for your nice mail and is my pleasure to know you from my fiancee Ushas, Anyway, i will like to get some explaination on how the leaves look like?

I wait for your reply

Bye and please keep on being a GOOD FRIEND in Deed and in Need to Ushas and i hope he will be for you also.

I Pray That Will God Bless Ushas And You All The Time

Pedro again

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Kate
How nice to hear from you. Yes, Ushas is a good friend and often carries me on his back when I am too sleepy to move from room to room.

The leaves are green, and they grow on trees. Several kilograms sent to
Ushas would be very nice.

Pedro

The bait continues!

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:16 pm

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:52 pm

@sunshine, I love your characters! And the lad doesn't seem to "get" their real identity. Laughing

But I do have a question: how does Ushas type? Confused

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Funny. I think it would be appropriate sometime to have the sloth lose energy mid-email and just press "send". Wink

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:57 pm

this bait could take a loooooooooooooooooog time I think but I hope your lad dont look a gift horse in the mouth Wink

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:19 am

I'm enjoying being Pedro, as he makes a nice change from my usual rather shady characters.

Kate sent a message to Ushas (cc Pedro, so I'm not stealing Ushas's thunder by posting it, I hope:

Kate wrote:

Good Morning My Love
Please i want to tell you that, There are soo many leaves which i can find here, But i don`t know if it will be the exact one Pedro want?
Please try and explain to me more how the leaves looks like?
I want to also tell you that, i don`t have any money to send them to the address because the collect about 48,000 Cfa for sending any object to abroad.
I wait for your soon reply
MANY KISSES TO YOU MY LOVE USHAS
EXTEND MY REGARD TO PEDRO
BYE AND TAKE CARE

And the barrister is also now aware of Pedro, since I wrote questioning the need for pounds:

Barrister wrote:

Attention Mr. Ushas / Pedro

Sir,

I want to know the currency that you want, so that i will go direct to the point by letting you know how much the 1325 Pounds will be in that currency.

Let me know if i will check it for you in Swiss France?

1325 Pounds is equal to Swiss France 2492.418 CHF

Thanks

Pedro is a pretty intelligent sloth, when awake. In fact, he's financial advisor to all the crowned heads of Central America. So when Ushas wrote:

Ushas wrote:

Barrister (and Pedro)

Thank you for your email. I've had a look in the Swiss France account and there isn't enough money in there to pay you. I think we are going to have to pay you in Danish Kroner or Gurglland Whåles . Can you tell me what your fee would be in those currencies?

There are 11,283.61 Danish Kroner in one account and 419,001.80 Whåles in the other and that sounds an awful lot so I am sure there will be enough there to pay you.

Kind regards
Ushas

(PS: Pedro - that's a lot of money to have in such an obscure currency as the Whåle - do you think it might be something to do with that polar bear business?)

Pedro was able to reply fairly quickly (for a sloth, that is):

Pedro wrote:

Ushas (cc the barrister, natch)

You must expand your horizons away from cantering and running around a bit, you know. From where I am hanging, I see a different picture.

The Whåle is probably the safest currency in the world right now, as it is frozen in its relationship to walrus ivory. The Swiss France is pegged to the value of chocolate futures, which are perilously close to meltdown at present.

419,001.80 Whåles will certainly cover our costs to this learned gentleman, but I suggest that you wait until the value of sterling has fallen a little further. Our Whåles will achieve a greater liquidity.

Pedro

As far as leaves go:

Pedro wrote:

Dear Kate

I woke up just now to find your message waiting for me on my bedside terminal. How sweet of you to look for the leaves for me.

Since they usually come frozen here, the shape is destroyed when they are packed, but I remember that when I used to eat fresh ones, they were round leaves, divided up into about seven fingers, and about 30cm in diameter. Bright green. The way to tell them is to taste them. They taste a little like peppermint, with a faint aftertaste of anchovy. So if you find any leaves like that, please send them to Ushas, and I'll be happy to repay you for any charges.

Many thanks.

Su amigo
Pedro

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:18 am

^^^ The Danish Kroner amount was deliberately chosen as it's about 1000 short of what he's asking for so I'm rather hoping that he'll start asking for payment in Gurglland Whales Smile

@Titania - In order to type Ushas uses a very big keyboard and his nose Smile

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