What is Scam Baiting?
Scam baiting is a new internet sport. Scam baiters pretend to fall for the scam, waste as much of the fraudsters time as possible, telling them they need to confirm identity prior to sending them money and get them to send their photos holding signs (with phrases they are unfamiliar with) or in ridiculous poses (with a fish or a loaf of bread on their head etc.. to prove that the person in the photo is really them and not an image grabbed from the internet – when they believe you are about to send them money its amazing what stupid photos they will take), scam baiters get fraudsters to wait for hours for them at airports, wasting as much of the scammers time as possible and having some fun along the way ! If you are going to engage in Scam Baiting be sure to read guidance from some of the internets best scam baiting sites. Click here to visit our good friends at www.419eater.com (excellent display of image manipulation skills to fool the scammers). Read their letters archive for some h
While most Internet users are wise enough to avoid online scams, there are still people out there who fall victim to these fraudulent schemes every day. They can be taken for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Sometimes, however, the tables are turned on these scammers, the people running the scams, in a process known as scam baiting. Scam baiting starts when a person is fully aware that someone is attempting to rip them off in one of many different styles of online fraud. They might get a suspicious email, see an online auction scam or make contact with a fake escrow website. This scam baiter will use several different techniques in order to give the scammer nothing but a difficult time, and ultimately attempt to defraud or humiliate them. He or she can also cost the scammer money or sometimes even get them caught by the authorities. The main point of scam baiting is to do everything possible to keep scammers from stealing money from innocent people, and to aggravate and humiliat
It’s the delightful practice of fighting back against the pesky Third-World scammers that send out all those emails that you’re probably pretty familiar with by now. Say, for example, you receive an email from an African emissary, who just so happens to have encountered a large sum of money. The catch? He needs your personal contact info, or some of your money, in order to acquire this wealth. That’s the scam. Any day of the week, you’d normally just delete this message. But there are those out there that are taking this to another level. Instead of dropping the email in the junk folder, they’re responding, and doing everything they can to waste these spammers’ time, energy and resources. The most popular of the scam baiters is Mike Berry. His website is 419eater.com. Not too long ago, he tricked two Nigerian scammers into reenacting the “dead parrot” sketch from Monty Python.
