Have you ever gotten one of those Nigerian scams in your email? You know - where they say you won millions in a lottery (or whatever)? Well the webmaster on this site 419 Hell ,,, Fighting nigerian scams for fun answers those scam emails and does everything he can think of to mess with the scammer's head and waste their time.
Here is a fake photo ID that one of the scammers sent him...
(I think I could eat a photo with some paper and poop a more convincing ID!)
Fighting Nigerian Email Scams (funny!)
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Fighting Nigerian Email Scams (funny!)
suncrafter;1120234 wrote: Have you ever gotten one of those Nigerian scams in your email? You know - where they say you won millions in a lottery (or whatever)? Well the webmaster on this site 419 Hell ,,, Fighting nigerian scams for fun answers those scam emails and does everything he can think of to mess with the scammer's head and waste their time.
Here is a fake photo ID that one of the scammers sent him...
(I think I could eat a photo with some paper and poop a more convincing ID!)
The ID is really funny as he's the only man in the world who has seperate eyebrows.
We get a lot of these e mails but you have to be really dumb to fall for them. We now have a 'mail washer' that blacklists e mails like this and they don't get through. I watched a TV prog where it said you should print them off and report them to the police as they can track them. The police can't do their job anyway, we don't want to go confusing them with anything complicated.
It astounds me that people fall for them, especially the competition one's. Why would you win a competition that you haven't entered? Yet folks fall for it.
Here is a fake photo ID that one of the scammers sent him...
(I think I could eat a photo with some paper and poop a more convincing ID!)
The ID is really funny as he's the only man in the world who has seperate eyebrows.
We get a lot of these e mails but you have to be really dumb to fall for them. We now have a 'mail washer' that blacklists e mails like this and they don't get through. I watched a TV prog where it said you should print them off and report them to the police as they can track them. The police can't do their job anyway, we don't want to go confusing them with anything complicated.
It astounds me that people fall for them, especially the competition one's. Why would you win a competition that you haven't entered? Yet folks fall for it.
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