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Every idea implies its opposite, and there's no clearer proof of this than the amazing Internet practice of "scambaiting," well-documented in Eve Edelson's Scamorama: Turning the Tables on Email Scammers.
Boing Boing 2008
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-- The 419 Eater website is a place dedicated to what's called "scambaiting", or intentionally responding to "419 scam" e-mails.
Ghost King Gemmell, David 1988
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Scamorama: book explains how to get into scambaiting as a hobby ...
Boing Boing 2009
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Scamorama is a popular website for scambaiting, and its creator, Eve Edelson, has put a lot of thought into the nature of the 419 con and those who seek to disrupt it.
Boing Boing 2008
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But where Scamorama really gets going in as a HOWTO manual for scambaiting, with long, hilarious email exchanges between baiters and scammers, and good tips for running your own reverse con.
Boing Boing 2008
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As hobbies go, scambaiting sounds like a pretty fun one -- and it has redeeming social characteristics, since the 419 con artist who is busily whittling you a Commodore 64, sojourning to Amsterdam to meet an "eccentric clergyman" who will front him $20,000, or re-enacting the Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch is a con artist who is not ruining the life of some more trusting soul.
Boing Boing 2008
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Scamorama: book explains how to get into scambaiting as a hobby
Boing Boing 2008
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Scamorama: book explains how to get into scambaiting as a hobby ...
Boing Boing 2009
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William says in the two years he's been scambaiting, scammers have never shown his characters any sympathy.
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William says in the two years he's been scambaiting, scammers have never shown his characters any sympathy.
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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.
419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet! 2023
alexz commented on the word scambaiting
Is where people mess with phone and email scammers to waste their time and frustrate them.
March 28, 2018