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There's a guy who responds to his spam and posts the letters on his site. It's hilarious :)

I don't know if the site is still up, but I know it's blocked by my proxy at work, so it has been identified as a time waster by people who filter websites for a living. You have been warned ;)

http://thespamletters.com/

I know a guy who's been replying for years. And unlike this moronic idea, he's damn Funny.

With respects to The Spam Letters, I'm working on a new type of eye surgery that only needs a magnifying glass and a study hand. You might wanna practice on a box of rats before taking it to the kids.

• Websites Fighting the Nigerian Scam/419
• Nigerian Advance Fee Scam
• US Secret Service on 419
• Break The Chain
• 419 Coalition (as noted in the article)

• 419 Eater
• Scam Joke Page
• ScamOrama
• the spam letters
• spl's soapbox

This character actually responds to and buys from spam.

This character, on the other hand, actually responds to spam, but doesn't buy from said spam, being 300 times funnier at the same time. I wonder why he haven't ever been mentioned on Slashdot. Probably because it's better to write about something stupid than something insightful... *sigh*

...by mercilessly making fun of them. Good stuff, I've been following this guy's work for a while. Hilarious.

~jeff

Without Nigerian scam artists The Spam Letters would just not be the same. Keeping the above in mind, please reconsider your revenge. Thank you.

Without Nigerian scam artists The Spam Letters would just not be the same. Keeping the above in mind, please reconsider your revenge. Thank you.

I highly recommend checking out this site. This is a guy that replies to spam and leads them on for as long as he can. It's completely hilarious, his sense of humour is wicked. Here is the page dedicated to Nigerian Scam spam

I think this guy is the original. This particular one dates back to early 2001.

TheSpamLetters.com. The guy who runs the site spends time writing back people who send him spam and has some great ones related to Nigerian Spam. He keeps a running documentation of the give and take. It's a really good read if you need a laugh.

Really funny is this one where the alleged Nigerian is requesting contact info and the guy sends him the phone numbers for the Secret Service division that handles the Nigerian Scam. Priceless. He never heard back from the alleged Nigerian after that.

TheSpamLetters.com. The guy who runs the site spends time writing back people who send him spam and has some great ones related to Nigerian Spam. He keeps a running documentation of the give and take. It's a really good read if you need a laugh.

Really funny is this one where the alleged Nigerian is requesting contact info and the guy sends him the phone numbers for the Secret Service division that handles the Nigerian Scam. Priceless. He never heard back from the alleged Nigerian after that.

TheSpamLetters.com. The guy who runs the site spends time writing back people who send him spam and has some great ones related to Nigerian Spam. He keeps a running documentation of the give and take. It's a really good read if you need a laugh.

Really funny is this one where the alleged Nigerian is requesting contact info and the guy sends him the phone numbers for the Secret Service division that handles the Nigerian Scam. Priceless. He never heard back from the alleged Nigerian after that.

Sure, spam sucks and spammers should be castrated [or worse] but at least one person is having the last laugh at the spammers: http://www.thespamletters.com

Hahah. That reminds me of this great site, this guy responds to Spam he receives. Your post reminded me of this reply. Read the whole thread, it's hilarious.

I personally would love to see this guy's response to a message from the US government.
(Someone has waaaaay too much time on their hands)

I've seen a lot of links posted to the haxial.com site. You should also check out this thread on thespamletters.com. This guy is a riot! It's too funny to think of the guy replying enough that there are 13 messages in the thread.

I've seen a lot of links posted to the haxial.com site. You should also check out this thread on thespamletters.com. This guy is a riot! It's too funny to think of the guy replying enough that there are 13 messages in the thread.

Also see the spam letters for some older correspondence.

I think that while it is valiant of ISP's to try to block spam as early as possible, it goes against their duty to provide an unfiltered connection. Furthermore, clients might actually _like_ to receive spam (like the guy who actually replies), or be friends with lots of spammers, or just generally not have an objection to spam.

That said, I also think that all emails should be PGP signed, and all emails that fail in THAT regard should be summarily filtered... (of course the process to get there could be as gradual as having the email client flag unsigned messages as "suspicious", yadayadayada... so as not to shock the masses with a sudden change... blah blah)

Subject: Re: confidentaility
To: hamza kalu <hamzakalu@yahoo.com>
From: Jonathan Land <jland@incomplete.net>
Date: 08/08/2001

Jonathan Land,

Hamza, You're the funniest fucker in the world. I'd like to see your African Voodoo against my American Technology. I'm a top muckity-muck in the Department Of Defense. I'll have a Smart Bomb in your lap faster than you can play Hot Potato with it. They'll be picking those voodoo pins out of the remnants of your ass right up until the funeral. So seriously, I'm not a cop or anything: a) Are you even remotely near Nigeria?
b) How many people do you send emails like this out to, and how many actually fall for it?
c) Why did you keep writing back to me when I was obviously yanking you harder than a wood chipper? I could imagine that you deal with a lot of humorless folks in this line of work, and I might be a breath of fresh air. Essentially, I'm really curious... how well has this racket worked for you? According to this site: http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ the scam you're running is actually a major industry in Nigeria, so I guess it's going well. Jon

the 31 million us dollars in frozen funds email, how does this scam work anyway, any info?

It's simple. You give them your bank account # and permission to withdraw funds. Then they do. Duh.

Read the thread over at spamletters.com if you want to get a better idea.

have fun with spam, like this guy does....

For those of you who like "best of's..."

"Unfortunately your triumvirate of identical links above don't seem to go anywhere. It's missing it's periods like a debutante after the prom."

[to a spam advertising a chain to keep you from losing your remote] "I'm a prison guard in Jessup. MD, and when the inmates in my block get their allotted tv time, they've taken to playing a new game that they refer to as "Pass the Remote". The idea of the game is to swallow the tv's remote control, and keep it in their digestive system for as long as possible. Everyone gets a turn, and whoever takes the longest to "Pass the Remote" wins a pack of cigarettes from everybody else.... Anyhow, while all of this is highly entertaining, the remote controls get pretty foul, pretty fast, so this whole thing needs to come to an end instead of in one and out the other..."

"...further slap in the face for those of us True Republicans who have been forced to carry the torch under the Reform Party banner. And as anyone who carries a torch under a banner can tell you, we're all feeling pretty burned."

[from a job application he made up] "Question 4: What's your favorite number between 1 and 10? (This one is actually very important, it will determine your hourly salary.)"

"Hi, my name is Amy. I'm a freshman at UCLA. My sorority girlfriends and I just designed a website to help pay for college. We have hardcore pictures of us and our boyfriends having kinky sex. New pix are uploaded every day. Click Here To Enter

Hi Amy!
I'm so glad you wrote to me! My name is Jon, I'm a senior in high school and I'm applying to UCLA! Do you have any words of advice? ! I know it's really hard to get in there, but my grades are good, and I got 1500 on my SAT's (yay!). My interview's coming up next week! Also, are there any work study jobs besides the e-commerce positions you referred to in your prospective student introductory letter, or is that not part of the financial aid package? I'm not good with computers. I couldn't even make your link work.
Please help me! I don't know anyone else who goes there. I want to go to UCLA sooooooooooo bad!
C Ya In September (I hope - fingers crossed),
Jon "

The best one, though, has got to be his T-shirt ideas, which you just have to see for yourself.