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Main Forums => Anarchy => Topic started by: 12AX7 on March 19, 2008, 04:26:58 AM
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Ahaha! Sweet. 8-)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338908,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338908,00.html)
"Typically, scammers start an e-mail relationship and get their victims to send money to people who claim to be dying or who need help to free a fictitious dead man's money purportedly tied up in a foreign bank account.
The scambaiters play along, goading the scammers to jump through extraordinary hoops in hopes of getting their hands on their victims' cash.
One con artist gladly tattooed himself with a design that read "Bilked by Shiver" and sent the photographic evidence to Shiver Metimbers, the founder of 419eater.com, a Web site that documents the scambaiters' revenge."
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"Scambaiting is frowned upon in legal circles," Metimbers told Wired in a 2006 interview.
Can someone with more legal knowledge explain why? I thought fraud was illegal and catching the bastard was the goal. If I get to beat him at his own game in the process, isn't that like... bonus points?
Last year I received an e-mail from the Psuedo IRS asking me for my social-security number so that I could claim $$$,000 in back tax refunds (that I knew weren't owed to me). I entered into a dialogue with the guy, told him I was uncomfortable sending that information over the internet and was there any other way to contact him. I got phone numbers, names, addresses, dog's names, kid's names, funny wife stories, then shipped the whole kit and kaboodle off to the Real IRS scam hotline. Will I be frowned upon in legal circles? :|
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Fox News: Fairly Laggy
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Fox News: Fairly Laggy
Fairly? They got so much crap on there, it's a wonder the page loads at all.
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No I was referring (perhaps unfairly, this is something all traditional media suffers from) to Fox News' lack of ability to report things on the internet (or TERRORNET as they undoubtedly call it) before they're a few years old.