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Sweet Revenge On Nigerian Scammers
davesag writes "I just came across this fine site, 419Eater, wherin people counter scam the Nigerian 419 scammers that have been plaguing our spam filters for the past few years. The UK paper The Guardian is also running a fine article on this site. The site author, and several other contributors, have taken to responding to the scammers, using obviously fake names and so forth, and then string the scammer along for as long as possible. In many cases they get the scammer to pose for a photograph! Amazingly the scammers are just as gullible and greedy as their typical victims, and fall for the most obvious ruses hook, line, and sinker. 419eater welcomes contributors, so if you ever wanted to get your sweet revenge on these low-lives, here's a channel for you. The 419 refers to the section of the Nigerian criminal code under which such scams fall." We've linked to a few such fraud-baiters before, though few with as amusing a photograph.
They look just like I'd imagined too!
In one of the letter threads, he requires the scammer to identify himself on a photo, With His Chosen Password!. Of course, this password is carefully chosen in order to positively identify the business transaction partner.
:-)
Hilarious.
From: "Deeoni Chow" (address classified)
To: Slashdot
Dear Sir.
My name is Deeoni Chow, and I am the Lawyer of Son of Marcos Jacobs, the recently Assassinated President of Nigeria. Your contact information was referred to me by one of my trusted contacts, whose name I am not at liberty to compromize. I would like to approach you with reguards to a possible lawsuite. Please to remove my clients picture from your internet immediately or we shall sue for $16,000,000.00 (SIXTEEN MILLION) US DOLLARS.
Having a nice day, Hope this helping
Deeoni Chow
From the article:
"Other sites feature similar pictures with signs reading 'Iama Dildo', 'Mr Bukakke' and 'Ben Dover'."
They misspelled "bukkake". This is an offence against my sexual orientation!
My favourite anti-scam-scam on that site is the one where they got the Nigerian guy to pose for a business card photo under the name "IAMA DILDO." It's laughalicious!
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
Random is the New Order.
I know its a shameless plug, but I did pretty much the same thing to one of these guys a while back. I even got him to tell me what kind of boxer shorts he wears (flannel multicolored). I logged it all here/
"I don't think I can help you, Mr. D---, but I think you might be interested in meeting Mrs. L---, recently a widow, who has a business proposition similar to yours..."
It's a loaf of bread - the anti-scammer had him pose with a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine in order to "verify his identity" (i.e., waste his time and make him look like a fool).
Brilliant!
Without Nigerian scam artists The Spam Letters would just not be the same. Keeping the above in mind, please reconsider your revenge. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Along with a team of ten other men he robbed three casinos and stole his girlfriend.
They link to a site that lets you make your own nigerian spam! Heres how mine turned out:
t ml
site at: http://www.southwesternhell.com/perl/weblibs.pl
From sanusiabiola_311@mail.com Tue Oct 1 21:01:34 2002
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:34:23 -0500
From: sanusi abiola
To: [ Deleted ]
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS
Dear Sir,
I am Dr. Bob Dole, the personal Assistance to the late Nigerian
Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the Federal Chief
George Bush, who was murdered on 23rd of December 2001 by unknown Gold Bars.
Before he became the minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the
Federation, he was once the Minister of United States Govenment. During his time
as a Minister of United States Govenment, the Federal Government of Nigeria
gave to his ministry the sum of US$376 , which is to be used
for the completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Industry and the purchasing
of Dimonds and able for the Nigerian Electric Power
Authority (NEPA). Then this jobs and the supply of the Dimonds
were done, but of low Quality standard and the Dimonds he
imported were of red quality standard and of stupid power capacity.
Because of the low quality standard of this jobs, the sum of US$19373456
was realized of which he deposited US$3.14159265357 to a security company
abroad and was looking for a reliable person or company whom he will
transact business with before he meet his un-timely death on the 23rd
of December, 2001. He informed the security company about his foreign
partner who will be coming to pick the Penguin although no company's name
was given to the security company before he died it was only I and the
late Chief George Bush knows about the Penguin.
Therefore, if you can be trusted in fairness to your honesty to safe
keep that Penguin pending when I will be coming to meet you in your
country. Please, if you are not interested with this business,kindly
inform me As soon as you received this proposals. At the same time, if
you are interested, kindly send me as a matter of urgency:your company's
name and address, your private Train and Helecopter.
This will be used to send to you the Plane which you
will use to claim the Penguin from the Security company.
I am awaiting to hear from you.
Best regard.
Dr. Bob Dole
NB: You can find more informations about the death of cheif George Bush
on the
following weblink:
http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/spotlight/ige.h
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
Encourage international business. Most of the spammers will provide you with convenient contact details such as phone and fax numbers. When you receive other spam, reply and pass these details on as your own. I get a warm fuzzy feeling thinking about the Lagos criminals who are now busy sending faxes to a chinese car part manufacturer.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
In the Soviet Union, Nigerians are spammed by you!
Oh, wait... D'oh!
Maybe reversed?
In the Soviet Union, Nigerians spam you!
huh?
My head hurts...
Robert Bindler
A Computer Science student's views on technology.
With the amount of information that's online these days, it's not that many more steps to reverse-engineer your identity from there.
That's why Slashdot continues to be the best place to make fun of our way too powerful overlords.
The funniest Nigeria 419 scam of all time ?!
This was featured on slashdot a while back by another user on Slashdot Sunny Dubey
Better to just body-grab the scammer when he arrives, and collect a ransom from his gang ;-)
If they don't want to pay up, sell the scammer off for parts. What are kidneys going for these days?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Why raise the spammers' standard of living?
Reading over these scams and their replies, I got a big kick out of some of the names. So c'mon all you sub-genius /.'ers out there, let's get together and give our knights in shining armor some creatively fun names for them to use in their ongoing conquests of the 419 scams.
Kareem Incolon (almost sounds like lincoln)
Juan Falacio (Has that zesty spanish feel to it)
Alotta Fagina (Yes I know, Austin Powers)
Barbera Cracklinbush(For the holidays! Chesnuts roasting on an open Cracklinbush)
Celine Doush (Saline Douche)
Ok I got 5, 4 originals. Lets see what the rest of the crowd can come up with.
Just spammers and RIAA members.
Nothing to see here; Move along.
PLEASE HELP ME KEEP MY EX-WIFE FROM STEALING ALL OF MY MONEY
I came home from my job as an executive of a large American bank today to suprize my wife for our 25th Wedding Anniversary. Boy was I surprized.
I walked in and found her having intimate relations with the mailman.
She told me that I'm a lousy lover and my tiny dick could never satisfy her. She said that Gilligan, the mailman, had more manhood than I could ever dream of getting from all of those online penile enhancements.
That bitch. I bought her diamonds, two BMWs (NOT ONE, TWO), and took her on trips around the world.
It was on one of these trips that I discvovered the wonderful people of Nigeria. I have fond memories of the time we spent there, and I think someone from Nigeria could help with the problems I'm facing now.
You see, I have very substantial assets. I don't want that money grubbing whore to take any of my money.
She just discovered that I have invested a substantial portion of our money in building cities in Mexico. I need someone to help me hide $100 million Pesos before my wife finds it.
I was given your name from a trusted associate of mine and he says that you are a community leader in Nigeria and are a man of inferior moral quality. He thinks you can help me.
Here is what I want to do.
I will send you $100 million Pesos for safe keeping while my divorce is completed. I will give you 50 percent of that money for your efforts so long as you keep it hidden from my ex-wife.
She is still watching my creidt cards and other spending, so I will need further assistance from you in covering the initial expenses. This is the only way we can keep her from finding out what is happening.
Please resond with your telephone and fax number so we can get this process started.
Thurston Howell III
i helped him out and i made a bundle! with the money, i bought a great house with a fantastic mortgage. then i married a beautiful russian bride, and i pleasure her with my surgically enlarged, viagra driven member. During sex, I take photos and print up hundreds of copies, but hey no problem - I have an excellent source of toner....
I've been trying for long, long time not to admit that.
This is not my sandwich.
I for one welcome our new spam-fighting AI overlords.
It had to be said...
Why exactly are they going to go after a scam baiter? Even assuming they are able to locate you, assuming you're stupid enough to give them your real address or other identifying information, is it really worth it? In the real world, they would just hit delete and move on.
These 419 scam baiting web sites should *NOT* be shut down; rather, they should be even more widely disseminated until every high school student discovers the after-school pasttime of baiting 419ers.
Who knows, perhaps every school will have a "419" Club, with special insignia on their jackets. They could compete in local and regional 419 tournaments for "best baiter". Sort of like debate tournaments. But take off the "de". In fact the price would go to the "Master Baiter".
it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.