[OT] Finally some payback for Online Scammers

Scott Elcomb psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 4 17:33:05 UTC 2006


I found this to really fun read.  =)

Baiters Teach Scammers A Lesson

"They pilfer nearly $200 million from Americans annually and drive
some of their victims to suicide, but Nigeria's notorious e-mail scam
artists may finally have met their match -- and the results can be
hilarious.

British online vigilante "Shiver Metimbers" is leading tens of
thousands of "scambaiters" in a crusade to shut down advance-fee
fraudsters, grifters who spam unwitting victims with elaborate,
e-mailed sob stories promising a share of nonexistent fortunes in
return for upfront payments.

So-called 419 scams, named after the section of Nigeria's criminal
code that covers the conduct, are the most common type of con; victims
are sometimes left penniless.

But Metimbers and crew turn the tables on scammers one by one,
boomeranging the tricksters' own tactics to entice them into
performing outlandish tasks in desperate pursuit of cash -- then
trumpeting evidence of the con artists' naïveté for the online world's
amusement."

Full Story at: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71387-0.html

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