Scamming the E-Mail Scammers

Scammers "pilfer nearly $200 million from Americans annually and drive some of their victims to suicide, but Nigeria's notorious e-mail scam artists may finally have met their match - and the results can be hilarious." Baiters Teach Scammers a Lesson is an article from Wired Magazine about how a group of people are fighting back against e-mail scammers. It's just too good not to post.

Hopefully you know that if you get an email (or phone call or fax or whatever) that sounds too good to be true - it probably is. The prototypical Nigerian scam is called a 419 scam. Check out the website of those who are fighting back and teaching others to do the same.