Beautiful anti-419 tales

[lederhosen]

If you have an email account, you probably get comically badly-written emails from people in Nigeria offering foolproof get-rich-quick schemes. There's a beautiful site concerning these scams at http://www.scamorama.com/

Some of the highlights:

Tales of people who've actually talked the scammers into sending *them* money (or, in one case, five grams of gold!) The current record, 171 pounds!

Scammers outwitted by a head in a jar.

Dori Kuklinski finds a husband!

And my favourite of all: Dr David Ehi vs. Randolph Carter.

Comments

now that is funny...

[kimono-skunk.livejournal.com]

I just read the Nigerian snam emails, and man I must hand it to Mr Carter, he really made the scammer look like a complete idiot. and the Police followup, and the additional emails, about the guy that can 'retrace' every keystroke, man that was good.

I might just email the scammr, asking him for information on the Chuuthu...(or however it is spelled) along with a few thou from his presidential account as well, for a new laptop.

Hehehehehe thank you most kindly for the excellent finds and posts, that email series is in my favorites.

with warmest regards...
Kimono-skunk and Anna-Bunny

Re: now that is funny...

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful site :-) And even the ones who don't get any money out of the scammers are wasting time they'd otherwise be using to target more victims...