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Sweet Revenge On Nigerian Scammers

Posted by timothy on from the and-throw-away-the-key dept.

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.

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  1. If you liked that site, you'll love by lightspawn · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ebolamonkeyman (the original?).

  2. In case the photo gets /. 'ed by PPGMD · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Mirrored:
    http://lazyeights.net/Avion/oduobi_tokunbo2.jpg
    http://home.lazyeights.net/Avion/oduobi_tokunbo2.j pg

    Have a 2.5 GB limit on the first account, and I am unsure when Roadrunner will cut off my Business account on the secon address.

  3. My favourite is down :(( by MSBob · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The ultrafamous www.buddyweiserman.com which was a whole site dedicated to one Nigerian scammer who got taken for a ride by a very clever American chap who intorduced himself as "Buddy Weiserman". It was absolutely hillarious with photos and sound samples and all the emails exchanged.

    But you won't see any of it because it's been down for a few months now, sob!

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  4. maybe this would be to hard... by Froze · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has anyone ever considered sending them forged checks/money orders or bearer bonds/stock certificates that would immediately be recognized as fraudulent when they attempt to cash them? It seems to me that this would be great fun and the results should cause some serious problems for the scammers.

    I suppose that using counterfiet money would be out though as that is a federal offense just to make it. To bad, having a legitamate reason to crank out a few thou in fake money would be cool (I wonder if the would allow you to do that as a cooperative sting operation... hmmm).

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