Where has the pride in workmanship gone?

By James Fallows
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What happened to scamming operations that tried even a little bit for plausibility? Not even the takes-one-second-to-copy distinctive Google font? This took me one second -- OK, ten -- to copy:

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It almost gives me an autumnal mood about the lax working habits of this modern age. Mais où sont les phish d'antan? Surtout les phish Nigérians?

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/01/where-has-the-pride-in-workmanship-gone/35081/