419 and all about Scam Baiting
What a delightful way to start off the day! If you can't get the nerve up to try a little scam-baiting yourself (like me) do the next best thing -- go to 419eater.com and read about it from your armchair
So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their precious time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims.
There's an archive of hilarious exchanges. I'm still chuckling over :
'Prince' Joe Eboh contacts me with a classic 419 opening letter. I decide to make him jump through a few hoops before I'm prepared to agree to his proposition, and the results are amusing AND profitable, to the tune of $80 + $49 DHL shipping, so our scammer is down a whopping total of $129
Cheer yourself up !
What a delightful way to start off the day! If you can't get the nerve up to try a little scam-baiting yourself (like me) do the next best thing -- go to 419eater.com and read about it from your armchair
So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their precious time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims.
There's an archive of hilarious exchanges. I'm still chuckling over :
'Prince' Joe Eboh contacts me with a classic 419 opening letter. I decide to make him jump through a few hoops before I'm prepared to agree to his proposition, and the results are amusing AND profitable, to the tune of $80 + $49 DHL shipping, so our scammer is down a whopping total of $129
Cheer yourself up !
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