Just out of curiousity, I did a whois on 419eater.com to see if it turned up any ‘real’ details about ‘Shiver Metimbers’. Wouldn’t that ever be scary? You think you’re anonymous on the web baiting dangerous foreign gangs, and suddenly they show up at your suburban house with an Uzi. Brrr…

No, yeah, he’s anonymous.

It didn’t really occur to me at the time I registered this domain to do it anonymously… I guess I could have, but the option didn’t obviously present itself. Besides, whenever you see one of those articles about suspicious sites (MAVAV comes to mind), often the first thing the investigator does is run a whois and find out who owns the domain.

At any rate, it’s not something I have the time or energy to take part in at the moment… and besides, you need to be well-off enough that the scammers think you’re worth scamming. But in terms of actually shutting these guys down, making it out to be a fun-filled internet ‘blood-sport’ is going to do far more than any kind of law enforcement.

After all, they send out zillions of these emails all the time — and if the majority are being answered by scambaiters, well that’s pretty tough for them to keep at it.

Mike

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