419 Nigerian Scam Fun!

Welcome to the 419 Eater

Does somebody want to transfer millions of dollars into your account?
Does someone want you pay you to cash cheques and send them the money?
Met a new friend/penpal on a friendship/dating site who's asking you for money?
Has a dying person contacted you wanting your help to give his money to charity?
Have you sold an item and are asked to accept a payment larger than the item amount?

IT'S A SCAM!

Don't fall for common scams like this - fight them!



So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves.

It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community.

So it's called scambaiting and I think it's hilarious!!!! Read this story:

Welcome to the 419 Eater

Lol I just watched Chris Hanson catch 3 con artists... Funny show.

I know, I cant stand people who do all that crap. From Hackers, to these Nigerian scams, pop up makers, virus makers and everything else.

The only reason they try the nigerian scam over and over, is because it works... If people in the US weren't morons, and didn't buy into this obvious scam there would be no scam. Half of the shit advertised in the US by people here is a scam.

lol ya i was watching the same show it was on a couple hours ago, that was fucking hilarious the first dude who he mets up with and hes like " i have to tell you something...im not Jim Dimoni, im from a tv show about people who try to scam americans" and the dude just takes off running

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Originally Posted by rebgirl420

I know, I cant stand people who do all that crap. From Hackers, to these Nigerian scams, pop up makers, virus makers and everything else.

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The word "hackers" is used to loosely these days. It gives the good people bad names.

I've come in contact with these scammers several times. If anyone is dumb enough to fall for this sort of thing... well, you deserve it. The second I start reading one of these emails, the first thing that catches my attention is the complete lack of grammar skills(even below that of what some Americans are capable of stooping to), HORRIBLE mutilation of the English language, and a story so unbelievable and obvious... etc. You know, these "hacking" skills come in handy when you're dealing with these kind of people. If you're only using that knowledge for a good cause, it's not such a bad thing.

Damn, I'm feeling quite numb right now. :D

^^ of course no reasonable person who knows the internet is going to be fulled. Its the elderly and the people who don't know their way around the proverbial block. Sure YOU and ME wont fall for it but Nanna might..or maybe Mom or Dad.

I can't stand pink, instead of fighting scammers we should fight pink font.....

^^^ well I LOVE pink and im keepin' it :)

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Originally Posted by rebgirl420

^^ of course no reasonable person who knows the internet is going to be fulled. Its the elderly and the people who don't know their way around the proverbial block. Sure YOU and ME wont fall for it but Nanna might..or maybe Mom or Dad.

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i don't know. nobody ever had to tell me that the words FREE and MONEY don't go in the same sentence. i guess the only part of it that i could see anybody falling for is maybe the one where they troll around dating sites looking for victims, then spend months, sometimes years building that person up only to empty their bank accounts.

yeah but its shady as hell none the less

yes it is. i posted some ads on a few different sites here awhile back to sell my truck. you wouldn't believe how many of those bastards emailed me with shit saying "i am from the UK, i would like to purchase your "merchandise". they wanted to send me a check, and have their personal "shipping company" come and pick it up. not only that, but most of them were offering about a thousand bucks more than what i was asking. i scared the piss out of one of the guys, who i had engaged in a little game of email tag. this can be a really fun thing, when you turn it back around on em.

OMG i read that WHOLE story you linked.
That is AWESOME! Those people are geniouses! OMG! OMG!
8 MONTHS of wasted time! And the carving! The "painting" the video! Totally amazing.. sorry but that just blew my mind.

haha that's fucking hilarious..

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Originally Posted by josh g

OMG i read that WHOLE story you linked.
That is AWESOME! Those people are geniouses! OMG! OMG!
8 MONTHS of wasted time! And the carving! The "painting" the video! Totally amazing.. sorry but that just blew my mind.

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Yeah I like the billboard! It's not even from his country! It's from india! hahaha

I just learned about this shit in AP Gov...and just wrote a paper on Nigeria.....my teacher got this pulled on him and he went along with it until the guy realized he had caught on and quit callin

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Originally Posted by rebgirl420

Welcome to the 419 Eater

Does somebody want to transfer millions of dollars into your account?
Does someone want you pay you to cash cheques and send them the money?
Met a new friend/penpal on a friendship/dating site who's asking you for money?
Has a dying person contacted you wanting your help to give his money to charity?
Have you sold an item and are asked to accept a payment larger than the item amount?

IT'S A SCAM!

Don't fall for common scams like this - fight them!



So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves.

It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community.

So it's called scambaiting and I think it's hilarious!!!! Read this story:

Welcome to the 419 Eater

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Yeah, I was actually scammed by the guy from Lagos Nigeria, I filed a claim with the international internet fraud agency (forgot the actual name) and included all the e-mails that were sent back and forth, the address he supplied me with, and the alias he used on me.. glad he got brought to justice

how in the fuck do you fall for a scam like that strwbrry haha

Someone tried to get me with this bit way back in the 90s and I came close to falling for it. If I would have had money, then I may have sent it. I kept trying to get them to buy me a plane ticket and I'd come over there and 'sort it out' with the bank. I would send them email after email trying to get that ticket, but no dice. They wanted nothing to do with my broke ass.