That’s what the ingenious folks over at 419eater do. I know someone well who works very closely in bank fraud, so he hears about the Nigerian Scam all the time.

The description on that page is very much complete. But for the lazy clickers, basically the scam involves contacting a Westerner and pursuading them to participate in the transfer of a huge amount of non-existent funds. As the ‘Advance Fee Fraud’ proceeds, the victim is asked to pay transfer charges and bribes and whatever that seems to obstruct the real payment.

Anyhow… the guys (and gals) at 419eaters ‘bait’ the scammers into believing they have a particularly juicy victim and then turn their own tactics on them — multiple personalities, absurd turns of events, other random hilarity.

Many are quite vulgar, some very blasphemous, but still deliriously funny.

I’ve decided that I should have a section over there on the right for linking to past noteworthy blogs and noteworthy off-site links… but now I need to spend the time coding it… ugh.

Expect that feature in september sometime. [ed: or... whenever. Michael is busy]

Mike

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