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 http://www.419hell.com/ 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!)
(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee204/suncrafter/AndersonTubmanAlistair_Darling_Mpja.jpg)
Man, they could care a bit more of the quality of the photoshop... I mean Scottish executive English executive... :P
When I see "(funny!)" in the title of a thread in the Gen Gen I never expect to laugh.
This time I laughed ;D
This is kinda funny but sad at the same time.
Oh boy, what a pathetic attempt to make an convincing ID.
It could be convincing if it had just a few more pixelated crests.
I've been listening to the conversations with Charles Soludo. Very convincing scam... ;)
Spoiler
419Hell.com Dude, "...in South Africa...we were trying to make a hybrid duck-pig-cow..." and then, "...there's another Calvin Huckle, an adult entertainer. He juggles ice cream cones with his member."
Bwahahaha. Not to forget:
Spoiler
HULLO?
And look at this amazingly real scan of a real bank card:
(http://www.419hell.com/Charles_Soludo/1_Email_Scams/IMAG006A.JPG)
Funny the way the magnetic strip extends beyond the physical confines of the card...oh well, looks real to me! :=
I took the time to listen a few of his phone calls with the girl that fell in love with him.
It's kinda funny it sort of goes like this:
Candy calls.
His "dad" picks up.
It takes a while before he comes one.
He tells about his fetish for farm animals
He asks her to make a cow sound.
Then a goat sounds
Which she then actually makes.
Also one one where his dad doesn't want to hang up the phone but listing instead. He punches him in the eye lol. While this Candy person is still waiting on the phone.
His "dad" also asks where she is calling from.
When she says Nigeria. He says:
"hey that's kinda far away"
That girl must of spend 100s of dollars calling him. lol
I don't really think that saying "I don't normally sleep with stinking Nigerian whores" is particularly amusing.
I listened the warning calls to victims on this one bait, where baiter got the scammer to believe that he is another scammer and is sending good cheques to people. I actually thought that nobody could be so stupid to fall in to these scams, as they are so obvious. Well, some people that he warned about were like "can't believe I was going for that". But I kind of understand them, they had some financial troubles and then they just wanted to believe in those. But these some people seemed to be chronic victims for these scams and the guy said there has been cases where victim has lost all of their money, house etc. What's wrong with these people? How can they fall for these scams so many times?
On this particular site, it's not so interesting, but following links took me there...
http://www.419eater.com/index.htm
Now this is hardcore!
http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm
Take a look at first few and you'll get what I mean. Baiter's comments here and there make it even funnier.
Despite being funny, it's quite sad and irritating stuff overall, I'd say.
Quote from: Goldmund on Mon 26/01/2009 21:03:19
I don't really think that saying "I don't normally sleep with stinking Nigerian whores" is particularly amusing.
I agree, this is not funny at all. In fact, I didn't even bother checking the website out. Calling people names like that, scammers or not, is in poor taste.
I
did find the fake ID that was posted in this thread hilarious, however.
I agree. He's just insulting those scammers all the time. Which is some times funny. But most of the time just rude. And I don't think it's funny how he tries to waste the scammers money. Sure scams are anoing and not a good thing. But these people are not trying to scam you because their lives are good but they would like to make fast money and get rich. They do it because they are stinking poor and their future looks bad. Plus they don't quickly get punished for it. Making things hard on them isn't going to help anyone. Sending money isn't either though.
Flame-baiting - and publishing the results - is such an extremely cheap way of creating "comedy", and seems most of all like an effort to get attention.
"OH YOU WANT ME TO SEND YOU TEH MONNEY?? OK HOLD ON!!"
* fifty emails later *
"OOPS LOL I DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY!!"
You didn't only waste the scammer's time, you also wasted your own. And the viewers'.
I completely agree with everything said on the start page of 419eater, but especially:
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For the most part these criminals are not, "poor people trying to scratch a living", but are very prosperous compared to their law-abiding countrymen, and many operate in highly organised, and highly successful criminal gangs. Millions of dollars are stolen on a DAILY basis, with absolutely no thought given to victims, who are losing vast amounts of money, homes, relatives, jobs and worse. Contrary to popular belief, it is not just "greedy & stupid people" that fall for these scams.
I don't see any problem whatever with fucking with these jerks and costing them time and money. They are trying to rip someone off and deserve not an ounce, not a damn teardrop of my or your or anyone else's sympathy. Whether or not it's 'entertaining' is immaterial so long as scambaiters continue to wreck the plans of some of these pricks, though I must admit I loved the videos a scammer sent in where he was doing all sorts of crazy stunts to try and get a load of money.
No pity. Fuck these idiots trying to make money off of someone elses work. I agree that it's not the funniest stuff ever, but I find everything written on that site in good taste at least.
THAT... WAS... AWESOME... :D
Quote from: vict0r on Tue 27/01/2009 15:12:21
No pity. Fuck these idiots trying to make money off of someone elses work. I agree that it's not the funniest stuff ever, but I find everything written on that site in good taste at least.
Here here!
No..wait... are you telling me that Yolanda are not really in love with me? :o
Next time I'll stick with underage austrian teens.
Quote from: LUniqueDan on Fri 06/02/2009 21:56:46
Next time I'll stick with underage austrian teens.
Strange taste, but I could hook you up with my distant cousin's relative's aunt's sister, who is teh hottest.
Just gimme some money first.
Quote from: LUniqueDan on Fri 06/02/2009 21:56:46
Next time I'll stick with underage austrian teens.
I never hear from Ines these days....
Darren (Whackhead) Simpson does mainly prank phone calls for a South African radio station. Most of them are really funny. But the guy also enjoys confronting 419 scammers and playing them at their own game. Here's a selection of his 419 phone calls:
Dec 07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJLHXo4tuY
Apr 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPfhM89JUk
Jun 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=durAMZxIfV8
Jan 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5-P9MrbwU
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhB74OEWmzM
Listen to some of his other pranks, too. They are hilarious and highly addictive.
I recently replied to one of these scammers just for kicks. It was in no way as planned out or clever as a lot of these others, but I got a kick out of doing it. His email contained the basic scam with entreaties to my "christian" nature. (I suppose because my email address is sumojesus@hotmail.com) Anyway, here is a short childish attempt to entertain myself.
Subject: Damn Geena
Dear Mr. James
I appreciate your efforts to reward me this sweet wad of magical mystical cash moneys via the esteemed Swiss bank of Gmail. As your email was so original, believable, and clearly legitimate, I would like to give you all of my worldly possessions in addition to any information you might need to continue taking whatever other worldly possessions I might amass in the future. Also, for being such a saintly believer in the Bible, you deserve nothing less than free front row tickets to my next match. Clearly, it was but one small function of your vast intillect to offer religious appeals to someone whose email is "sumojesus." You have discovered my true identity. I am not a cynic, mocking christianity with a ridiculous nom de plum. No, no, indeed I am a tremendously obese messiah, who for sport pushes other tremendously obese spiritual figures out of a ring drawn in the sand.
Please deposit the money that you are willing to give me for doing absolutely nothing in account number 369erW#4@*7 at The Bank of Total Fucking Retards. Your divine wrastlin' tickets are in the mail.
Hugs and Kisses,
The Big Beautiful Son of God
Wow Stupot I didn't think anyone outside SA knew about Darren Simpson. I met the guy once he's quite funny.
I came across him due to his Asda prank call being getting media coverage in the UK, and have now listened to all of his prank calls, and am planning some of my own ;D :-*
My brother was trying to sell his old camera. He got an email asking if he could send it to Nigeria. I thought it was kinda funny how fake it was.
Quote from: LUniqueDan on Fri 06/02/2009 21:56:46
No..wait... are you telling me that Yolanda are not really in love with me? :o
Cry on my shoulder. We have all been there.