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Daedalus
02-24-2006, 10:01 PM
I inquired online about a car I saw on Ebay, and it seems like it's another scam. They never get the English quite right, do they? Seller says the vehicle is in Concord, so I replied Great! I can be there in a day! We'll see what he says.
Anyway, it reminded me of a website I came across this week. Maybe it's a repost? Dunno, but it's pretty recent. It's a bit of a read, but there's something exponentially satisfying about seeing a scammer get scammed:

http://www.419eater.com/html/okorie.htm

Here's another one I heard about this week, a little older, but pretty creative and funny:

http://joi.ito.com/images2/thepowerbook.pdf
mcs328
02-24-2006, 11:19 PM
OMG that's a long read but very funny. I can't believe he got the tatoo and those passports look so real too.
Memo
02-25-2006, 12:17 AM
Holy crap, that 419eater website is amazing. They have pages and pages of pictures of the people they have totally pwnd. The ones where they make the people pose with a fish on their heading eating a piece of bread are great. It's just mind boggling the amount of people they've busted. Just imagine how many people these bastards have scammed.
ramazank2
02-25-2006, 08:03 PM
Very good, but not yet finished.....
MikeD
02-25-2006, 08:12 PM
Hilarious. I like how the guy got a tat that covers about half of his upper arm. I guess that's a "long term" reminder of his actions. :hehehmm:
speedracer120
02-25-2006, 10:03 PM
OMFG I love these sites.
Thesifer
02-26-2006, 03:40 PM
Thats pretty cool. Wonder if the tat is real.. or just a hoax also.. since the guy forged everything else atleast somewhat decently..
ArkiStan
02-26-2006, 09:48 PM
can anybody find that old one where the scammer was some guy in the london and the baiter managed to use a webcam to track him in the cyber cafe, or something? I think he photochopped some photo of troops in iraq to lie about his whereabouts. that was a really good one.

edit: hmm, I guess that second link is the one I'm talking about. But I swear there was another one involving a webcam and photochops of a photo of a US soldier in Iraq. It was done sort of like the ones at the 419 eater site.