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there is a site on internet of a guy who actually went through this, made fun of these people and odcumented everything. after a very interesting emails where he made them believe he is going for it things became a bit too dangerous so he notified the police about it. ugh if i could only remmeber the site.... it's really fun to read.
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http://baita.mugu.co.uk
and this: http://www.whatsthebloodypoint.com also this has some: http://www.scamorama.com/ |
Answer him and ask him some silly questions, like: Why the hell are you using yahoo?
Or you could deny, like saying: Sorry, but I cant help you. Im not willing to receive any money, because Im a hermit and I live by sucking a moisture from rocks. However, a friend of mine can help you. Here's his email: (The email of that guy who leeches Abandonia). |
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I remember that people on some forum, actually traced down the guy who sent those phishing mails, I'm not sure if they've beat him up or called the authorities, I do remember tha the bloke was sending those E-mails from a web caffe.
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The US Department of Justice, or the US FBI, (I cannot remember which) has instruction on how to forward these emails to them. It involves tagging the subject line with "For information only, No Financial Loss". Searching on "report 419 scams" produces many results. The first link, on Google,"Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website" gives directions for reporting such scams in many countries.
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419eater.com is a fantastic scam baiter website. It is run by a certain "Shiver Metimbers," who obviously takes great pride in his scam baiting abilities.
Some of his career highlights include - Convincing 2 nigerian scammers to film and send to him their own version of the famous Monty Python "Dead Parrot Sketch." Yes, you can see the resulting film on youtube, and yes it's actually damn funny. Convincing 1 scam "artist" to carve him a full scale replica of a Commodore64. The scammer not only made the wooden thing, but actually paid for it to be shipped to England. It's a really good, solid, site, and although the 419 scam is evil and depressing, the site is very funny. Shiver Metimbers is a kind of hero of mine :) |
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Hulk Nuclear? .... I am intrigued....
Mr. Shiver Metimbers definitely has enouh passion for what he does to make it worthy of an art form :) I'll have a dig around and find a link for the "Nigerian Dead Parrot Sketch" 'cause it's so very much worth it! |
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