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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. Re:419 Scams are named for their law they break by Runaway1956 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tobacco? You're out of date and out of touch. 3 decades ago, tobacco was one of the biggest scams in the US. Today? Not much. They deliver precisely what they say, without being overly hyped. Scam? They tell you right on the package, "This shit can kill you!" How is that a scam?

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scam

    scam [skæm] Slang
    n
    a stratagem for gain; a swindle
    vb scams, scamming, scammed
    (tr) to swindle (someone) by means of a trick

    My recommendation for you, is reading comprehension 101. Somewhere, you've failed.

    Today, the biggest scams involve the defense industry, diet foods and drinks, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and the "War on Terra" along with the "War on Drugs". Please, don't allow your obsessive/compulsive hatred of tobacco confuse you.

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