I've been attempting to temper my schadenfreude of late, what with the election results, and all, but after reading any of these threads I say, "bets are off". Enjoy:
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Here is slowly expanding selection of email exchanges between myself, other fellow scambaiters and the bad guys A.K.A. the scammers!
All scammers text is printed in Italics, and my comments are printed in bold and sometimes in square brackets
. Note that for the sake of clarity I have tried to clean up the formatting of the scammer's text. However, all spelling and other errors have been left intact, mine included!
WARNING
419 scammers are not nice people, they are thieves, liars, and generally very nasty, therefore you can expect some small use of adult language and themes when dealing with them here. That is not to say there are any explicit pictures here - there isn't, but if you are very easily offended then please go HERE
PLEASE ALSO NOTE
Scambaiting is not a racist activity. Anyone with racist views is most definitely NOT welcome on this site. 419eater maintains a ZERO TOLERANCE policy towards racism throughout the site and forums.
It is important to understand that scambaiters only respond to scam emails we receive. Unfortunately is is a sad fact of life that the majority of "419" scams do in fact originate from Western and Southern Africa - we estimate 50% - 55% of "419" scam attempts are sent from Western & Southern Africa - but these scams also come from places such as England, Spain, Ireland, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia and many more.
For the most part these criminals are not, "poor people trying to scratch a living", but are indeed 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.
(hours of fun reading!)
http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm