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Dealing with 419 fraud

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Old 24th Nov 2003, 08:10
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Dealing with 419 fraud

Annoyed by the constant stream of "I HAVE $10,000,000 IN A TRUNK" emails?

How's this for a way to deal with them: http://www.419eater.com


Very tempted to give this approach a try.
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Old 25th Nov 2003, 08:46
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The link's currently giving "bandwidth exceeded": I assume it's another play-em-along site? If you want to do it, use a throw-away webmail account. If you're not 100% comfortable with your ability to stay anonymous on the net, don't do it.
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Old 25th Nov 2003, 14:36
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This Guy has some incredibly funny episodes stringing the 419'ers along. He even managed to get some of them to give him money.

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Old 25th Nov 2003, 22:52
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Yep it is string along stuff, but he has pictures galore sent by the fraudsters to try and meet conditions he has set.

100% agree, on the annonimity comment, recent cases have shown these people to have help on the ground in Europe and Australia.
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