{"id":352,"date":"2008-05-05T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=352"},"modified":"2010-10-07T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T17:13:44","slug":"gas-tax-holiday-as-a-419-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Gas Tax Holiday as a 419 Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob sent me a link to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gastaxscam.com\/index.html\">hilariously deadpan letter,<\/a> which poses the purposed gas tax <a href=\"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=341\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=327\">[2]<\/a> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advance_fee_fraud\">Nigerian 419 scam letter<\/a>. It has everything:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name drops important heads of state who need your help.<\/li>\n<li>Provides a reason why your help is required<\/li>\n<li>Offers a sum of money that you will receive for helping said party.<\/li>\n<li>Requests that you send money to a foreign nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Luckily nether Hillary nor McCain will implement their plan this summer. But if they are elected to office we&#8217;ll be in for 4 years of awful plans just like this one. You, my non existent Indiana reader, I&#8217;m talking to you!<\/p>\n<p>The rest of you are tired of hearing about this I bet. I know I am, but writing vents frustration. I reall like this question and answer from the bottom of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24411755\/page\/2\/\">MSNBC article explaining things<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<dt><b>Is it true that oil prices have been purposely manipulated to permit drilling in Alaska (ANWAR) and in other areas of the U.S. that are protected?<br \/>\n&#8211; C. J., Canfield, Ohio<\/b><\/dt>\n<dd>No.<\/dd>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob sent me a link to his hilariously deadpan letter, which poses the purposed gas tax [1] [2] as a Nigerian 419 scam letter. It has everything: Name drops important heads of state who need your help. Provides a reason why your help is required Offers a sum of money that you will receive for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}