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Scambaiting Gets Comical; Internet Scammers All Dressed Up

Posted by timothy on from the made-in-the-shadenfreude dept.

Nurse Nasty writes "Scambaiting is a fun and relaxing full-contact email sport. It's all about baiting Internet and email scammers into exposing themselves and sharing that humiliation with the entire world. Recently I baited four different groups of Internet scammers into being comic book action super-heroes, and then giving them their own 10-page graphic novel. It's a bit of fun and eduction through entertainment." (Warning: The comic contains a bit of naughty language.)

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  1. Who are the victims? by symes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sometimes I wonder if those Nigerians willing to engage in these scams are not just the poor and desparate foot soldiers of someone far more nasty... people who are caught in poverty and desparation can do strange things when offered a glimmer of a reward. Now what would be funny is if the 419eater people went and scambaited the Somali pirates. Now that would be worth watching.

  2. Re:racist by Donkey_Hotey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Has ANYBODY noticed that these are fairly creepy and somewhat racist images?

    Just curious--if they were white Europeans, would you be asking the same question?

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  3. Define baiting by hwyhobo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have we just been baited into reading crap for no good reason? Does that qualify as scam? Scam baiting? Or Baiting scam?

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  4. Re:419 Scams are named for their law they break by phonewebcam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An obvious scam the government can't afford to shut down because of the taxes it brings in? We have one of those too ... its called the tobacco industry.

  5. Re:racist by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're creepy and they're belitteling, demeaning and outright insulting pictures. That's part of the idea. Not because these people are black, but because these people are scammers. That they're black is simply quite logically considering they come from a country where most people are.

    I'm quite sure they'd be just as belittling, demeaning and insulting if the scammers were white, yellow or polka dotted red and blue. It's not fun because they're black. It's fun because they tried to trick people out of money and got exposed and publically humiliated for being criminals. Not for being black.

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