Thursday, May 03, 2007

Best scambait ever! (not even remotely SFW)

Okay, so we've all gotten those scam emails from people saying that they're the son of an african prince, saying that they have access to some obscene amount of money and that, if financed by some poor soul over the Internet, they will offer them a cut of the loot. "Help me get my money out of the country before the government confiscates it" type scame exist in many different minor variations, but the end goal is always the same: dupe someone out of some cash. The "official" name for these scams are "419" scams; why this is, I'm not 100% sure.

So it came as a bit of a surprise to me (though in retrospect I suppose it's probably inevatable) that an active Internet community has sprung up to bait the scammers; a lot of people, savvy to the notion that they are dealing with scammers, take the time to actively waste the scammers' time by leading them on, messing with their heads, getting them to send pictures, etc. Some of the stories turn out to be quite amusing. 419 eater is one of the more prominent sites.

Anyhoo, here is one particularly hilarious scambaiting story (again, not even REMOTELY safe for work!) that starts off as a fairly standard scambait but quickly devolves into a sordid story of love, loss, and falccid and erect pictures of the scammer's penis.

It must be read. (hat tip to The Agitator

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