Beastality and Insect anybody?

[ICStupidPeople]

If you've ever heard of the Nigerian 4-1-9 scam, I used to scambait against that, and that was one of the things that I would joke with the scammers about. Of course, they didn't think I was all that funny... but I know one person who would make up covers to Playgoat magazine for us to use.

lolol!! have not heard of that, but "playgoat" magazine had me rolling

my friends and i used to have a "who can find the sickest stuff online" contest weekly. I usually won...ahhh..the good old days before every porn site was filled with viruses (we're talking when aol was pay by the minute)

...<sings> memorrieesss

i still have most of the stuff on a disk somewhere, if i could only find a computer that still read disks..lolololol

[Big Wallaby]

Oh, then you would love some of the things we used to do. One of our favorites was to have our scammers make, um, porno for us (which we wouldn't look at except to laugh at them with it. We would get them trekking all over the continent, doing things that were downright nasty or deadly, tatooing themselves, taking embarassing pictures, and more. One pastime was to get them to think we were coming to meet with them, then have them hold signs waiting for "Ima Fuquhit" or other not-nice names. The most fun I had was when I received a neat proposition letter (the ones you get in your e-mail every once in a while, claiming that so-and-so died and left you money) and I sent a letter back to him with over 30 pages of threats, insults and voodoo curses (they believe heavily in voodoo in western Africa), and I think I may have said something about his mother's private areas. I also used IP tracking to tell him that I knew who he was and where he was, right down to what computer in an internet cafe. You could tell from his response that he was running scared. The best part is that the letter I sent him was all copied and pasted from other scammers to me when the deals went south.

Ah, fun times.

I bet you'd be really good at scambaiting, ICS.

[BRWombat]

...The most fun I had was when I received a neat proposition letter (the ones you get in your e-mail every once in a while, claiming that so-and-so died and left you money) and I sent a letter back to him with over 30 pages of threats, insults and voodoo curses (they believe heavily in voodoo in western Africa)...

There are some wonderful -- and hilarious -- examples of revenge on email scammers at
http://www.quatloos.com/.

[Big Wallaby]

Ah, the joys of Quatloosia! It was the Brad Christiansen exhibits that first got me into it... I spent time with the awesome people over at 419eater.com for a good while. I suggest a visit when you can.

[BRWombat]

It was the Brad Christiansen exhibits that first got me into it... I spent time with the awesome people over at 419eater.com for a good while. I suggest a visit when you can.

Hadn't heard of that site, but very entertaining reading. Thanks.

[mechurchlady]

I thought I knew of every 411 scam fighting site. That is hilarious and can I hire you, Wallaby, to work on my site? I have a small board that daily gets 1-5 new registrations by scammers. I have blocked so many and gave up as invision boards do not alphabetize or sort so it is confusing after blocking 200 emails and IPs.

Pay is access to my sweepstakes database. I bookmarked that for further reading.

[hobie16]

That's some really funny stuff!! Thanks for the links.

[ktulu]

I guess this would not be the thread to say that I manage a security & abuse team for a network service provider and deal with spammers, scammers and hackers all day...

[Big Wallaby]

I thought I knew of every 411 scam fighting site. That is hilarious and can I hire you, Wallaby, to work on my site? I have a small board that daily gets 1-5 new registrations by scammers. I have blocked so many and gave up as invision boards do not alphabetize or sort so it is confusing after blocking 200 emails and IPs.

Pay is access to my sweepstakes database. I bookmarked that for further reading.

Whenever you get a good list of e-mail addresses, just send it on over to the surplus area, and your scammers will be kept busy. Very busy.

But don't come crying to us when they come crying to you about having to videotape themselves lighting themselves on fire and running around for at least ten seconds :P

[mechurchlady]

I was bad one time when I found online a list of spammers and their passwords. I googled the spammer and then went to a couple sites and logged in as the spammer. Being there might be law dogs out there I will stop with saying it was fun.