Michael Quinn wrote:
This BBC News article about getting back at the senders of "get rich
> quick" scam messages may amuse some Telecom Digest readers. The
> pictures alone are hilarious.
> Regards,
> Mike
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> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thanks for passing this along. The
> pictures are funny. PAT]
The other day on a local TV station; reported that a Hollywood producer called a friend and said he was being chased by people, it was also reported that he had just gotten some money from people involved in one of the 419 scams. That was the last time anyone had heard from him.
It sounds like it could be pretty dangerous. The other day I got one and gave a friends work phone number to them, he is with the FBI, I let him know before I did it. Now to see what happens.
The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2005 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot in Hell Co.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It _is_ a very dangerous area to be in. The archenemy of all phishers and their phake banks,
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says rather plainly on their web site that deterring (through time-wasting emails, etc) phishers and their phony banks is _not_ a task for the faint hearted. In their forum for users, the members fall into a few categories including newbie-baiters, elite- baters and master-baiters, and all 'baiters' (their term for the now thousands of internet users who play games with the 419 crooks) are asked to try and improve their skills, but _never, never ever_ provide any real, accurate information about yourself, for good reason, and always use a throw-away email address when you work at nuking their web sites, etc. A couple of the real experts (known on their 419.org site as 'master-baiters') have actually convinced a couple of the Nigerian conmen to _send them money_ instead of the way the Nigerians had it planned. They have a monthly 'laugh at the 419 phishers day' each month, but they tell everyone to take much care against getting in 'too deep' with those people. I guess they have shut down dozens of web sites run by those fools, but the job never seems to end. They are always looking for new players to both run that bot thing of theirs which always goes around attacking phisher web sites 24-7 and the phake banks the phishers set up to 'prove' to you that they are okay, should you ask for credentials about the 'bank' holding your lottery money or your late Uncle's (the one killed in the aeroplane crash leaving no relatives) money. They have various dummy email accounts set up waiting for a phisher to abuse the 'bait', (which is what you would be if you wished to play along) and although you would start as a novice or newbie, the other guys there in the user forum would teach you how to become a master baiter soon enough, and maybe get some phisher to send you money in order for your bank to 'cut a check' as has been done, just a few minutes before they decided to nuke that particular 419 scammer out of business. PAT]