The 419eater Community Pulls Some Legs

trusteR writes "Always in the pursuit to rid the world of 419 scams with new and often very entertaining strategies, the class of 419eater.com have set new records in making scambaiting an entertaining and funny artform. Shipping ANUS laptops, $$$, Death treats, Audio and lots of pictures." This beats the amusement value of a Captain Kirk passport; the scam-baiters here managed to get cash in the mail and get rid of some less-than-perfect hardware.

Comments

what about violence?

[alarocca]

hows about some 419maulers.com ... instead of simply making fun of the scammers, we should abuse them with medieval torture devices and post the pictures on the internet!

Oh No!

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

"Tragedy struck today as a group of "nerds" called the '419Eaters' were killed in, what is being described as, a classic Organized Crime killing. In other news, Britney Spe...."

Great Stuff

[ravenspear]

They got this one guy to send a pic of himself holding up a sign that said "I take it up the arse."

i can't link it bc the site is /.

The Cthulhu Nigerian chain-yank is still the best

[Anonymous Coward]

www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html

'Nuff said.

Re:just look for the urgency

[Kenja]

"If you're every involved in something, and the other party has some crazy sense of urgency, there's a 95% posability it's a scam."

So when my doctor tells me I urgently need to have my pancreas removed there's a 95% chance that he's trying to scam me? That bastard, I'm going to tell him to go to hell right away!