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Old 05-04-2012, 08:06 AM
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How to deal with scammers

Welcome to the 419 Eater

This is fantastic!! Enjoy
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Old 05-04-2012, 08:36 AM
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Welcome to the 419 Eater

It is indeed pretty priceless!
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Old 05-05-2012, 12:25 AM
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Thumbs up Scambaiting

I went to this site and started reading and nearly fell off the couch. These guys (scambaiters) are good at what they do. Some funny stuff. Thanks for posting.
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Old 05-05-2012, 02:10 AM
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I absolutely hate you for posting this, No I don't but I just spent literally 2 hours dozing off and waking up desperately trying to finish reading this, I wanted to go to bed at 1:30 it is now almost 4:00am.

This was by far the absolute best stuff I've read on the Internet. Lmfao wow.

I can't wait to show other people this is too much.

Lol thank you for posting, this made my week complete. Props to you nothing beats this or even comes close.
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Old 05-05-2012, 03:12 AM
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I absolutely hate you for posting this, No I don't but I just spent literally 2 hours dozing off and waking up desperately trying to finish reading this, I wanted to go to bed at 1:30 it is now almost 4:00am.

This was by far the absolute best stuff I've read on the Internet. Lmfao wow.

I can't wait to show other people this is too much.

Lol thank you for posting, this made my week complete. Props to you nothing beats this or even comes close.
You are welcome

Many good stories at the "letters archive"
http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm

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Old 05-05-2012, 04:36 AM
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Epic...

But I'm with 1S1H, I just thought hey, I'll hit up some TBOT, have a smoke, and go to bed.

:Looks at clock:

Whaaaaaa?!?!?!?!
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Old 05-05-2012, 05:25 AM
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First page is here:

Welcome to the 419 Eater

It is indeed pretty priceless!
OMG that 'squirrel' gag is hilarious! Funniest thing I've seen in a LONG time!
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Old 05-05-2012, 07:24 AM
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I used to do this for fun. I had 4 different email accounts set up for it--each a different rich-and-generous personality. Scammers bite hard if you put on the air of helpful-older-new-internet-user.
I never really had the patience to carry on day-to-day correspondence with these people though, so I never got anything good. Then Google locked my accounts due to "suspicious activity."

My favorite from that site is one where a scambaiter gets a scammer to go to a Kenyan national park with a fake map which had "locations" of nests of an often-poached and endangered species of bird.
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Old 05-05-2012, 08:22 AM
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This one is genius!

He manages to get some dude to get a tatoo of a fake church!

http://www.419eater.com/html/okorie.htm
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Old 05-05-2012, 03:33 PM
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Wasn't there a couple a people a few years back who strayed some scammers along for a few years, and even had them traveling to dangerous foriegn countries trying to get money?
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