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- Ozzy73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35If you want to scambait for fun visit: http://419eater.com/
It is also funny to visit their hall of shame - zombieisland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I want to dedicate my life to this noble cause. Well maybe not - but the photo is hilarious.
- harpdog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24I guess I am what is called a phishbaiter.
When I get a phishing email I login to whatever false account page it takes me to and I log in hundreds of times using bogus details. I know that they have a script running on the webpage that collects all this garbage data I am imputing. I then check the source code of their webpage and download any associated scripts and on a few occasion I have found an email address that the phisher is having the data forwarded to. I am lucky enough to get this email I then register on as many porn sites as I can be bothered to.
Then I hope the phisher has a hugely inflated mailbox with no useful data. - ZachPruckowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Well, spam works too.
Counting on people not to be dumb is asking for a lot. - ZachPruckowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Mangofresh - yeah, they're photoshopped by the scammers, who need to give a picture of themselves without giving a picture of themselves, and so photoshop up whatever pictures they can find.
Alternatively, just to dick with people, scambaiters say "I'm not coming to Nigeria with $100,000 unless you wear a fish on your head". Now that's comedy. - halavais, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7More pictures (including other butterflies) here:
http://www.scambaits.com/forum/showthread.php?p=20055 - Shirk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I can't believe people are still falling for that crap.
"I'll give you $10 million dollars for free. All you have to do is send me some cash first so I can transfer it"
Durrrrr... ok. - tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You can tell he's evil. The happy face butterfly give it away. It's just like the creepy happy face clown phenomenon. But good for her.
- Shananra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Don't leave out http://www.thescambaiter.com
those guys are often a great deal more brutal that 419eater, and a great deal more fun IMHO. Nothing is more satisfying than a scammer standing on two chairs while hanging a laptop from his junk by a string with "anus laptops" on the screen. - Simon80, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@craftyguy: worst argument ever - it's not like they were going to stop scamming people at some point, satisfied with their riches..
- misterjangles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can't help but laugh seeing the photos of these pricks getting scammed. The only thing is that there has been some mention that the scammers may be just using other poor people - having them take the stupid photos, get tattoos, make wood carvings, etc.
- triskaid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Can someone answer the most obvious question this article begs?... where do I get this software?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The form for the church of the butterfly at the top of that page is hilarious!
"Lord, If I am Worthy, I will see Butterflies."
LOL - clide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thats the point MangoFresh. The scammers photoshop the pictures to try to forge the scambaiter's request. They are funny because the scammer is so bad at it.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That picture made my day.
- ZachPruckowski, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6No mention of the p-p-p-powerbook yet? I'm ashamed!
http://www.newssocket.com/features/article/231/ is one telling of it. I'm sure there are ones that aren't 7-page-loads somewhere. - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I want her website URL
- sq2shooter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That is awesome. I have been scambaiting for 2 years now and there is little that brings me more joy than jacking with these crooks.
- misterjangles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Go to http://www.419eater.com/ and have a look at the trophy room - they even tricked some of these guys to tattoo themselves with made up church names and such.
- 5hop4orce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So what's the tool?
- tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@se1zure
You're effectively saying all Africans are scammers which is as intelligent as saying all Americans are fat and stupid. I'm sure that's not the case but your comment definitely qualifies you for the latter. - SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Would you like to help us scambait some of these nigerian scumbags? For a nominal fee of only $10 per month to the below Paypal address, sign up to get one of our "MasterScamBaiters Kits" and you can start tackling these bad guys on your own!
*MasterScamBaiter Kit not guaranteed to be real. No refunds. - middleman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Good I hate those emails.
- rlh1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Interesting.
I have got these Nigerian scammers to send me pictures of themselves or family 4 or 5 times.
My best one was when I got lined up with a 6' 2" tall African bride for marriage, I told him that American women were too shallow, had them strung out for about a month on that one. - MediaShipper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1419eater.com
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6ROFL, this is my favorite:
http://419eater.com/images/hall_of_shame/alaka_kujo.jpg
Look at it and tell me it's NOT a fake mask he is wearing! - tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@se1zure
I may have misinterpreted your original comment but it came across as saying that the OLPCs are being sent to 419 scammers. As many developing countries are targeted by OLPC it implies that their citizens are scammers. Wrong.
419 scams mostly originate from Nigeria, as you say, and Nigeria is just one of many OLPC recipient nations. Even within Nigeria the proportion of the 140m citizens that are 419 scammers is tiny, despite the large global impact they have. It is my estimate that the number of these scammers that will receive a laptop is still minute compared to the number of US conmen that receive state aid fraudulently, for example. Just so ya know. - Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1PWNT!
- budman2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2A friend turned me onto the http://www.419eater.com website a couple of years ago.
THE TALE OF THE PAINTED BREAST is one of the funniest internet stories I have ever read!!
Its a long story, and needs a couple of breaks, but read until the end. - Artifakt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm surprised there's no mention of the holy grail of scambaiting (other than an arrest)... the safari! The premise is to get a lad to travel exceedingly huge distances, often spending all their funds and savings and/or leaving them in some extremely dangerous place.
YeaWhatever's site is definitely one of my favourites in this: http://yeawhatever.catholiccall.org/
Check out 419eater too, join in, just bait safe. - demodawid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That picture made me laugh so much! he looks so pissed!
- zues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We have all gotten these emails, I love how we are fighting back. I love it!
- simba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those are just Nigerians trying to use other countries names. I doubt if other countries are involved like Nigerians They've been trying to pretend to send e-mails from other countries like China England,Kenya,South Africa but its all coming from Nigeria. ***** Nigerians.
Only stupid people get fooled by Nigerians - tonto69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I run a classifieds site and my users were getting bombarded by scammers from Nigeria, Kenya and Cameroon replying to their ads. Fortunately I finally got smart (kicking myself for not doing it sooner) and blocked access to the site from those countries with a .htaccess file. So far its' been virtually 100% effective. All those losers have to do is successfully scam 1 person a year and make more $ than they would make in a year actually working. It's good to see technology like their automated software fighting back and beating scammers at their own game.
- brodie7838, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like to waste the time of the scammers from Craigslist. Just keep them busy, that way theyre hopefully not bothering someone else who might fall for it...
- kavery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would also suggest http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com as a nice way to waste a few minutes.
- sephyroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For those interested, the tool mentioned in the article is only available to members of http://www.scambaits.com . You can find out the basic details about the tool there, along with sign-up requirements for using it.
- se1zure, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2These are the people who we are sending the OLPC's too...
Just so ya know. - wobudong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have in the past baited Nigerian scammers until, after receiving dozens of those pleas for money, I wrote back to the latest Nigerian -- about a year ago -- that I hoped he had not paid too much for the story and the email addresses he sent the story to; that he had been cheated, especially since so many "rich" Westerners knew about the scams.
I have not received a Nigerian scam since then.
Ah, but this morning I found an email with an "es" -- Spain -- reply address.
I didn't bother answering and stringing it out for a month or two. Maybe next time. - WalesAlex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2www.419eater.com comes to mind, I spent like a whole day reading them all once, funniest thing I've read for a while haha.
Shirk, some people pay like $xx,xxx as well, I just don't get how gullible people can be. :( - tonto69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My other idea of getting back at these scammers would be to overload their inboxes with so much junk that it makes it impossible for them to weed out the junk from potential victims replying to their emails.
- atlex2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3maybe just for me but,
http://www.duggmirror.com - Snoskred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's Taryn typing.. you can find most of my work including the butterfly bait which is here - http://forum.scambaits.com/showthread.php?t=2772 - and the other butterfly photos I got from scammers on scambaits.com. :) I also do have my own site here - http://fraudstars.info/~snoskred/index.html - cheers! Taryn
- Snoskred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Firstly, Taryn is female. But enough about that. What is really important to note is, these scammers use many and varied techniques to scam people out of their cash, and donation scams is just one of their tactics.
Many people have been disgusted in the past when these scammers were pretending to be gathering donations for the tsunami, hurricane Katrina, and various other times when big unpleasant events like that happen.
However it is not something they only do when there's major events like that, they send emails out all the time, looking for bibles and other physical items - then they talk the people happy to donate items into sending money via Western Union or Moneygram because it will be cheaper than shipping them to Africa.
There is no such organisation as the NURUDEEN AL-ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (NAISFAT) in Africa. Or, Narudeen. The guy spells it both ways. You would think he would know the name of his own organisation, no? However that is not the only thing that gives this away as being a scam.
It's very important to realise that the scammers don't just do one kind of scam, they are into all kinds of scams from fake lotteries to love scams to job scams to getting you to give them your bank account info so they can write fake checks in your name and details and much, much more. - mjw64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Re:
There is no such organisation as the NURUDEEN AL-ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (NAISFAT) in Africa. Or, Narudeen. The guy spells it both ways. You would think he would know the name of his own organisation, no? However that is not the only thing that gives this away as being a scam.
I am an American expat in Nigeria for more than ten year and have to inform you that there is an organization called NURUDEEN AL-ISLAMIC SOCIETY (NAISFAT). You can see the bumper stickers on cars, buses and wherever they can place them. In the past couple of years they are on cars like parking permits. Today I asked of my staff exactly who were these people and was told that they are Moslems but they attend service in Sunday and wear white to services.
I am Lutheran and that’s all I know of the group. - se1zure, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@ tagawa
I'm talking about 419 scammers, not Africans. And this guy is from Nigeria.
And yes, all 419 scammers are Nigerian/ live in Nigeria, because that is where the 419 law is.
It's nto a matter of racism, it's teh fact that people think that sending laptops to the children of scum like this is going to help anyone. - Snoskred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, kids aren't toilet trained until somebody teaches them - it's about education. You're luckily aware of these scams but how about your friends and family? Can you guarantee all the elderly people you know with life savings in their bank accounts know about these scams?
It's not about being dumb, or greedy, or stupid, or any of those things. Did you ever buy a lottery ticket? Why? Because you *hoped* you might win. Because everyone thinks a large sum of money would improve their life. That's what the scammers use to con people out of their money. Hope.
Please do put the blame precisely where it belongs, which is on the scammers. They are criminals who stole from people. No different to someone who gets their car stolen - do you go around saying "I can't believe people are still parking their cars in the streets, how stupid!"
If you're reading this, I would ask you to make sure you tell the people you know and love that these scams exist and if they ever get anything strange, odd or that they aren't sure about in their email inbox to ask you BEFORE they reply or click on links etc, or to visit www.fraudwatchers.org where they can ask if it is a scam and have that checked out by people who know about these scams and how they work. - brenzz, on 04/10/2009, -0/+0WOW....I guess we can now officially one of those really organized crimes.
- budman2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOW----now thats one kewl way to fight back (The Safari!)
- zombieisland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Tips on how to scambait:
http://www.419baiter.com/scambaiting_resources.html
I'm still trying to find the software they are using. Will post it when I find it. Unless anyone else can tell me. -
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