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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:11:47 am | by PeterHewett | Revert |
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-I seem to get a lot of these. They often feature ERRATIC capitalisation of words randomly throughout the email, which will undoubtably explain the fact that a deceased relative left a large sum of money somewhere silly.
+I seem to get a lot of these. They often feature ERRATIC capitalisation of words randomly throughout the email, which will undoubtably explain the fact that a deceased relative left a large sum of money somewhere silly. These scams are known as [advance fee fraud| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud]
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I wrote a random scam generator one day, so try it out:
http://gian.expdev.net/scam/
Perhaps some of the more amusing examples of this phenomena could be included here?
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+!Mugu Baiting
+This is an online game where you reply to the 419 scammer and carry on a conversation of emails. The idea is to make humour at the expense of the scammer. Extra points for including names of Star Trek characters.
-One of these so-called "419" email scammers had his plan backfire.
[Scam o Rama|http://www.scamorama.com/threebucks.html] shows the email transcripts of the dumbest criminal on the planet who was tricked into giving $3 to the person he was trying to scam!
+[Scam o Rama|http://www.scamorama.com/threebucks.html] shows the email transcripts of the dumbest criminal on the planet who was tricked into giving $3 to the person he was trying to scam!
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+See also the inspired works of [Brad Christensen | http://www.quatloos.com/brad-c/directory01.htm] and [419 eater | http://www.419eater.com/].
