Nigerian scam emails - 419
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bq. 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.
Heh...
These are these wonderful emails that purport to be the relative of some deposed governmental official who has access to $12 million dollars in some bank account... You have read them. Good to see some action against them since these are nasty people if you persue this further and actually try to meet them.
Posted by DaveH at November 16, 2003 8:56 PM
