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A Day With an E-mail Scammer
- acangiano 16y agoWasting e-mail scammers' time is a hobby for many: http://www.419eater.com/ http://www.419eater.com/
- jamii 16y agoI don't have as much spare time as some, so I automated it: http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1274/311469/319933 http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1274/311469/319933
- acangiano 16y agoWay to go. Google should make something like this available as a Gmail lab add-on.
- gregschlom 16y agoAnd then scammers will ask you to solve a CAPTCHA before they engage in further discussion. :)
- jamii 16y agoThats fine. Their victims generally aren't tech savvy so the more hoops the scammers require them to jump through the more will get confused and give up. Even asking potential victims to reply to a different address than the originator of the email will affect the conversion rates.
- dkarl 16y agoThe "This American Life" segment about a particular 419 baiting feat is incredibly amusing and a little sad: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/363/enforcers http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/363/e...
- yeahsure 16y agoThe scammer getting a tattoo is the best, in my opinion: http://www.419eater.com/html/okorie.htm http://www.419eater.com/html/okorie.htm I remember laughing out loud when I read it a few years ago - it's pretty long though!
- pavel_lishin 16y agoThis probably wasted maybe 20 minutes out of their day. I was hoping to see them get counter-scammed, like has happened a few times.
- bl4k 16y agoand to think, if the scammer had just bothered to write a poem he may have gotten the $2000
- Luyt 16y agoDavid Pogue joining the ranks of http://www.419eater.com/ http://www.419eater.com/ ? Love it!