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Wired: Baiters Teach Scammers a Lesson

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Sun, 08/06/2006 - 8:16am

For years, third-world scammers have been getting first-world greedy fools to part with their money by promising them millions in exchange for their account information. Now international bands of vigilantes are turning the tables by replying the scammers and getting them to undertake all manner of bizarre tasks, from getting tattooes to taking photographs of themselves to sending money. Wired.com has the full story.

My sympathy for those who get scammed is limited -- if you honestly think that you can get 10% of the fortune left to the widow of a Nigeran army general by allowing your bank account to serve as a money laundry, then you'll probably get what you deserve. But the scammers are clearly the greater evil, and after getting hundreds of these e-mails over the years, its nice to see some of these guys getting their due.

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