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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Nigerian email conmen fall into their targets' net
  • Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:03:51 -0500 (EST)

http://money.guardian.co.uk/scamsandfraud/story/0,13802,1086308,00.html

Nigerian email conmen fall into their targets' net

Tony Thompson, crime correspondent
Sunday November 16, 2003
The Observer

It has been described as the internet's first blood sport and is fast
becoming one of the web's favourite pastimes. Fed up with having their
inboxes clogged with emails from Nigerian fraudsters promising untold
riches, the victims are finally hitting back.

Scam-baiting - replying to the emails and stringing the con artists along
with a view to humiliating them as much as possible - is becoming
increasingly popular with more than 150 websites chronicling the often
hilarious results.

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