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	A scammer's meal

Oldude59

11-21-2006 9:16 AM

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absurdity, corruption, honesty

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80b572b9-caf6-4fa8-908a-27ead33bb780/B5D2FCCF-1968-43E3-8CAB-0F67A8AC64AA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=164" href="http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=164" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lifegoggles.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=164"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lifegoggles.com/img/C87DBDCA-7AAA-4EAE-A054-73B2E76591D9" alt="scam.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=164"><DIV align="left"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.419eater.com/">419eater.com</A>. Sounds unusual doesn’t it? And it is. It’s a website which hits back at scammers. You know those people who email you from Nigeria or somewhere saying there’s money tied up and just need a loan to free it up and you’ll be a millionaire? Some of those scams are called 419 scams and this website turns the tables on them.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=164"><DIV align="left">The owner of the site, Mike Berry, emails them back and strings them along, getting them to book him flights and into the Hilton, even to come over to the UK for a meeting and not turn up. He then documents the emails between him and the scammers - it’s amazing what he gets away with - and hilarious too.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=164"><P>
There’s a section where you can see other people who have baited the scammers too, but I wouldn’t try it myself. Mike Berry (aka Shiver Metimbers) has received death threats. Thanks for doing it for us Mike!
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