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1	'''Airdate''': Monday, February 4, 2002
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3	'''Sender:''' John, "and some other people who aren't scam artists"
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5	->'''Strong Bad:''' Initiate email check in five, four, three, two, one.
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7	Strong Bad gets a rather transparent phishing email from "John and some other people who aren't scam artists" trying to get his credit card info. Strong Bad declares he knows just what to do: he edits it to be a message to Homestar Runner from "Superfied Credit Union" and forwards it to Homestar, who falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
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9	->'''Strong Bad:''' ''(laughing heartily)'' That was too easy, man! Well, it looks like Homestar is about to make a little contribution to the Lots of Awesome Stuff for Strong Bad Fund.
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11	Strong Bad promptly goes on a shopping spree on "The Coolest Stuff Ever", picking himself up a spaceship, some killer robots, and other cool (and very expensive) things.
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14	!!Tropes:
15	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Tandy has a mouse in this email only, whereas in a later email, Strong Bad doesn't even recognize a computer mouse--seeing The Cheat using an iMac, he thinks The Cheat is "rubbing that bar of soap against the table".
16	* FailedASpotCheck: Strong Bad doesn't notice that Homestar's credit card's expiration is "13/02".[[note]]There is no 13th month.[[/note]]
17	* FiveFiveFive: Homestar's number is not, and cannot be, a real credit card number, at least until some financial institution starts using "567511[61]" as its ID. It also has an invalid expiration date.
18	* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain[=/=]SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "John, and some other people who aren't scam artists". It's ''so'' suspicious that even [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Strong Bad]] changes it to something more plausible before forwarding it to Homestar.
19	* VoiceoverLetter: Homestar's reply email fades from Strong Bad reading it out loud to Homestar narrating it.
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21	->'''Strong Bad:''' ''(doing his shopping)'' Gimme one of these... ''(clicks "spaceship")'' A couple of these... ''(clicks "killer robot" twice)'' Oh, everybody needs one of these... ''(clicks "rocket launcher")'' Oh, this thing, I gotta have that... ''(clicks "robotic dog/shark")''

Context Recap / StrongBadEmailE12CreditCard