The 419eater Community Pulls Some Legs

trusteR writes "Always in the pursuit to rid the world of 419 scams with new and often very entertaining strategies, the class of 419eater.com have set new records in making scambaiting an entertaining and funny artform. Shipping ANUS laptops, $$$, Death treats, Audio and lots of pictures." This beats the amusement value of a Captain Kirk passport; the scam-baiters here managed to get cash in the mail and get rid of some less-than-perfect hardware.

Hmmm.. gone already

[Phixxr]

Perhaps slashdot should change it's name to siteeater.com.

-Phixxr

Oh no....

[Anonymous Coward]

Why did you have to report it now? They haven't even finished it, and the site has enough problems with bandwidth already.

Great, now the site is slashdotted.

what about violence?

[alarocca]

hows about some 419maulers.com ... instead of simply making fun of the scammers, we should abuse them with medieval torture devices and post the pictures on the internet!

Oh No!

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

"Tragedy struck today as a group of "nerds" called the '419Eaters' were killed in, what is being described as, a classic Organized Crime killing. In other news, Britney Spe...."

Great Stuff

[ravenspear]

They got this one guy to send a pic of himself holding up a sign that said "I take it up the arse."

i can't link it bc the site is /.

"ANUS" Laptops?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lemme guess, these are manufactured on Christmas Island.

Would it be safe to say

[Anonymous Coward]

That these people are master baiters now?

What are...

[TechnoLust]

"death treats"?

Perfect in time for Halloween

[YetAnotherName]

From the summary:

...Death treats...

I just gotta get some of those! That'll take care of those pesky costumed kids with their shrill cries of "tricker-treat" about this time each year!

The Cthulhu Nigerian chain-yank is still the best

[Anonymous Coward]

www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html [google.com]

'Nuff said.

Re:Worse than 419

[Anonymous Coward]

"hello 911? I need the police, my neighbor stole my crack."

Oh yeah, the cops will be all over the guy.

Re:just look for the urgency

[Kenja]

"If you're every involved in something, and the other party has some crazy sense of urgency, there's a 95% posability it's a scam."

So when my doctor tells me I urgently need to have my pancreas removed there's a 95% chance that he's trying to scam me? That bastard, I'm going to tell him to go to hell right away!

Re:Worse than 419

[Ryosen]

>>Not only that, but having other 419 scammers find out that you (a 419 scammer) were scammed would be pretty embarrassing too.

Yeah, how could he ever face the guys down at the golf club? :)

Re:just look for the urgency

[david duncan scott]

"OK, you're ugly, too"

Thank you. I'll be here all week.

I have a default response to 419

[IchBinDasWalross]

If I read the article (or discussion rather) correctly, this guy is conning a 419-guy from "LAGOS" into paying $200 cash + $4500 cheque for "large boxes of misc garbage with a broken laptop that has "ANUS" inscribed on the screen".

This is my form letter response to any 419 scam. Do not follow the link in it; it goes to a site with a large number of disgusting porn popups.

THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST.

I AM VERY GREATFUL YOU CAME TO ME FIRST, INSTEAD OF TO SOME OTHER PERSON, WHO MIGHT TRY AND STEAL MORE THAN HIS FAIR SHARE FROM YOU.

THAT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. I WOULD LOVE TO HELP YOU AND YOUR CAUSE. MY CONTACT PROFILE IS AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.aderkach.org/?u=Ich .

PLEASE RESPOND WHEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE TRANSFER.

GOD BLESS.

Monty Python Reference

[AgentPhunk]

If these guys [utwente.nl] show up at your door, then yes, definitely tell them to piss off.

Re:Virtual scam is safest

[John3]

This one is also funny...so you've been warned. :-)

I got an email about the estate of a Mr. Gerrand Schwartz so I decided to claim that I was his son [warmfusion.com], Frank Albert Oral Schwartz. I provided a link to the Yahoo article [206.67.47.69] about my "dad's" death.

When I originally created those Yahoo stories you could still obfuscate the URL's using http://news.yahoo.com@206.67.47.69/schwartzdeath.h tm which made it look even more impressive. :-)

get them to buy me stuff

[man_ls]

I wonder if I could convince any of them to buy me stuff..."my only computer is at my office, and my boss reads my e-mails and he is very greedy, in order to better assist you with this transaction and ensure your funds are safely delivered, I require a private computer for which I can access remotely. You may deduct the cost of the computer from my assistance fee."

Only problem is, getting a safe address to ship it to, where I wouldn't have angry Nigerians coming to kill me.

The P.O. box at my college is probably fairly safe, but I don't know *how* safe. heh.

./ effect

[cavac]

The downed server reminds me of the ThinkGeek crash, see http://www.thinkgeek.com/slashdotted/index.shtml [thinkgeek.com]

They even have a nice picture of how a ./'ed server looks like ;-)

Re:I'm surprised this scam even works

[innocent_white_lamb]

I know a guy who sent in a check for a traffic ticket and wrote in "legal extortion" in the memo part. The court not only didn't accept it, they turned around and charged him with some silly trumped up contempt of court charge.

I own a small business and a few years ago I had a "disagreement" with the workers compensation board. After much fiddling around (and a so-called board hearing that was pretty much a waste of my time) they told me that I had to pay them $650. I mailed them a cheque and put "Extortion" in the memo field. They cashed it and I never heard anything more about it.

Another time, I caught some roofers fixing the building next door, plugged into MY electrical power. They had run a couple of extension cords across the intervening 30 feet of vacant lot and plugged in to one of my outside power outlets. Without asking or anything. Had they asked, I would probably have told them to go ahead and use it but not asking ticked me off rather efficiently.

I switched off the power to that outlet, then went and yelled at them for a bit and told them that I needed $50 to "cover the cost of the power they used and the cost of my time to deal with them." They gave me their office address and told me to send them a bill.

I did. In fact, I invoiced them for $50 for (get this) "asshole fee".

A couple of weeks later I got a $50 cheque in the mail. It stated that it was "in payment for ASSHOLE FEE" right on the cheque.

It was almost worth framing. But I cashed it instead...