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Fighting the Nigerian Money Scam

An anonymous reader writes "One of the most notorious spams, the Nigerian Money Scam, or 419, has reared its head again with the recent arrest of a California woman who embezzled $2.1 million from her law firm. However, anti-spammer Brad Christensen has apparently been having some success scamming the scammers. This exhibit contains some of his more successful exchanges. It seems he even managed to get some of the Nigerians to fly around the world to meet him. All in all, Bravo!"

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  1. dumass... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    berkley is a suburb of detroit, not berkley, ca

  2. 4th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as usual, i'm trying to time it right

    1. Re:4th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You bastard! You stole that idea from me!

  3. First Open Firmware Post by William+Gates,+Jr. · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DEFAULT CATCH!
    CLAIM FAILED

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  4. Re:*yawn* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blah blah blah if you don't like it leave blah blah blah etc

  5. *pthththth* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So stop reading and posting, and let the rest of us have our circle jerk.

  6. Watch out, Taco! by Devil's+BSD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is even better than Taco's penis-enlarging rant!

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    1. Re:Watch out, Taco! by Anonymous+Cowtard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The title of the page:

      "Of Course Your Dick is To Small!"

      Is this like one of those SAT analogy sort of things?

      Your dick is to small as CmdrTaco is to _______

      a) a big dick
      b) Slashdot
      c) the English language
      d) grammar nazi

  7. penguin computing by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sure is intersting..

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  8. *buurrrrrp* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you don't like it, make your own news site. The editors and mods do their best. Except timothy. So STFU and leave us alone.

  9. Re:*yawn* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why should I leave? I pay 10 dollars a month for this crap, is there a reason I shouldn't be able to give input on its content? This site has gone seriously downhill, I doubt much more of my money will be seen by it.

  10. *whiiiine* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Become a moderator. Mod down comments you don't like. Have fun. Oh, or you could stop paying $BIG_NUMS a month, and just use a filter to cut out the adverts anyway.

  11. *fffaaarrrttttt* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    True, this does keep the Slashdot Jantors emloyed. The 'guys' would be selling plasma without the $ from VA

  12. *mimimimimimi* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MODS ON CRACK. Why else would they mod parent Informative?

  13. Gotta love the moderation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderation Totals: Flamebait=1, Informative=5, Funny=1, Overrated=1, Underrated=1, Total=9.

    As I write this...

  14. I meant 403 Forbidden by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my mistake

  15. Re:*yawn* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Until is goes away.

    If ya don't like the article, why the fuck do you read it? Your time would be better spent jerking off.

  16. Re:*yawn* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How do you know if you like an article until you read it? Isn't that like judging a book by its cover?

  17. You suck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SlashDot is moderated by a bunch of retarded, brainless, idiot, dumb, dim-witted morons.

  18. Re:Michigan clues by wdr1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Woooo guys... are actually suggesting that michael actually *check* something? What are you, nuts? If he did that, he wouldn't have time to continue his defamement of Seth Finkelstein!

    Seriously though, makes you wonder what michael and timothy are actually to paid to *do*?

    -Bill

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  19. MOD PARENT DOWN- LIED ABOUT SAT SCORES + SHITTYSIG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Loser.

  20. Re:MOD PARENT FUNNY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No shit. "Informative"?

    Who the hell is a moderator these days?

  21. Re:MOD PARENT FUNNY by MaxVlast · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It is informative. I didn't know that he was hopping up and down in a yellow suit. Now I'm informed.

    Anyhow, Jon was on the other side of the fountain giving me the documents. What John Jorsett doesn't realize is that Mr. Aba is colorblind, so he sees orange as yellow. Fortunately, I knew to wear an all-orange suit (with orange bowler had borrowed from the John Steed estate.)

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  22. Re:Michigan clues by prichardson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think they're paid.

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  23. Re:Michigan clues by ozbon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That would be defamation, genius.

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  24. Re:Michigan clues by wdr1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm pretty sure that they are. Read some of Michael's crazy rants on his personal pages. Pretty clear implications that they are.

    -Bill

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