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Baiting Nigerian scammers for fun (not so much for profit)

Scam baiters are the vigilante enforcers who come together to waste hours, weeks, or months of 419 scammers’ lives for nothing more than the satisfaction of knowing that they are distracting them from real victims. “Death threats are not uncommon and are actually considered achievements: they are a testament to the fact that the baiter managed to annoy his/her scammer nicely” The things baiters do to scammers range from “boring” menial tasks like seeding false information to sending scammers on full-on safaris across Africa.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/baiting-nigerian-scammers-for-fun-not-so-much-for-profit/

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