Scambaiting Gets Comical; Internet Scammers All Dressed Up

Nurse Nasty writes "Scambaiting is a fun and relaxing full-contact email sport. It's all about baiting Internet and email scammers into exposing themselves and sharing that humiliation with the entire world. Recently I baited four different groups of Internet scammers into being comic book action super-heroes, and then giving them their own 10-page graphic novel. It's a bit of fun and eduction through entertainment." (Warning: The comic contains a bit of naughty language.)

419 Scams are named for their law they break

[LostCluster]

They're technically breaking their local law by running these scams... but they're one of the leading industries so the government can't afford to shut them down. Since there's no hope you finding them if you go there so they feel safe from you, and certainty that they'd be arrested if they come here so you're safe from them finding you... let the fun and games begin.

OMMFG.

[Anonymous Coward]

Shame on you /., posting this shit. The comic plumbed heretofore unplumbed depths of shittiness. I can't believe I wasted the time waiting on that shit to load. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME READING THESE "COMICS". They make pre-teen fan-fiction look like classic literature. What complete and utter shit. A new low for a slash story. Jesus fucking christ. Sure, moderators, mark this -7 Troll, but it's still not as bad as the OP.

The actual comic images

[FooSoft]

The forum seems to be a bit unresponsive, so here are the directl links to the comic images if you don't want to wait:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE001.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE002.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE003.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE004.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE005.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE006.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE007.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE008.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE009.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE010.jpg [photobucket.com]

Re:Link Dead

[Simon80]

Coral cache link to the rescue: http://forum.419eater.com.nyud.net:8080/forum/viewtopic.php?t=177394 [nyud.net]

Re:OMMFG.

[Anonymous Coward]

You could've easily stripped off the photobucket URLS from the links in those 10 minutes:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE001.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE002.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o6/nursenasty/mugu_x/PAGE003.jpg [photobucket.com] ...etc... just increment to 009

It's still shit though.

Shouldn't this be in idle?

[AniVisual]

Not newsworthy. Not newsworthy at all.

Re:419 Scams are named for their law they break

[JaredOfEuropa]

While it appears that for some reason this scene is dominated by Nigerian scammers, they don't always operate out of their own country. Amsterdam and London are popular bases for these scammers and they get arrested there all the time, sometimes with the help of Nigerian police. Amsterdam cops bust 419 ring, arrest 52 [silicon.com]

Re:Who are the victims?

[selven]

From the 419eater.com letters archive:

For the most part these criminals are not, "poor people trying to scratch a living", but are very prosperous compared to their law-abiding countrymen, and many operate in highly organised, and highly successful criminal gangs. Millions of dollars are stolen on a DAILY basis, with absolutely no thought given to victims, who are losing vast amounts of money, homes, relatives, jobs and worse. Contrary to popular belief, it is not just "greedy & stupid people" that fall for these scams.

Re:Slashbaiting

[BertieBaggio]

RTFSite. The 419-baiters take time and money from the scammers, which slows them perpetrating *real* scams.

Also, they make the scammers more paranoid about the next responder, which is wonderfully poetic.

Re:Slashbaiting

[hawk]

The California bar has sent out warning messages about these.

The version for attorneys has the attorney contacted from out of the country for help collecting a judgment, offering a typical contingency fee arrangement. The case quickly settles with the attorney involved, the attorney receives a cashier check, upon which no hold is put when he deposits it into his trust account (quite common for attorneys with a good relation with the bank who typically deposit institutional checks).

The attorney is then to wire the "client"'s share of the settlement to its own country . . .

Amazingly, many of these have been caught in time to save the attorney. I believe that some have been caught when the attorney called another attorney who had been named as the source of the "referral" who responded with, "who???".

hawk, esq.

Re:419 Scams are named for their law they break

[marten_77]

You made me curious, so I just read the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. I don't think that you are correct in your statement of the law. Neither Section 419, Section 419A, Section 419B, nor any of their subsections establishes any such sort of affirmative defense. The language of the statute looks pretty similar to most other fraud statutes, and is rather unremarkable: http://www.nigeria-law.org/Criminal%20Code%20Act-Part%20VI%20%20to%20the%20end.htm [nigeria-law.org]