Baiting scammers won stop them. So what is the point of baiting them?
Five part answer: 1) Occasionally scammers get so frustrated with baiters that they quit scamming all together to pursue real jobs. So, on rare occasions, baiting DOES stop them. 2) By tricking scammers into wasting their time and resources – baiters are preventing REAL victims from being harmed. 3) Occasionally scammers reveal information about REAL victims during the course of a bait. (stolen credit card numbers, bank accounts, etc…) Baiters can then use that information to contact the victims and warn them that they are being exploited. (See our “Victim Warnings Page”.) 4) By publishing these baits on websites like this we are alerting the public to the threat of 419. The more informed members of the public are – the less likely they are to be victimized. 5) It’s fun! (Have you read some of these Scam Baits? They are fucking hilarious!
