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SUBJECT: URGENT!!! Please read
I am soliciting your assistance as to enable my family round up the remains of our life. Following the death of my husband Sani Abacha, former head of state of Nigeria, the new president has turned the country against us . . . I will be grateful if you could receive my last $50 million for safe keeping. I will give you 10% as a commission and to cover any expenses . . . Everyone has no doubt received these “419” emails in their in-box; most of us immediately delete or trash them. However, groups of people around the world have taken it a step further and turned the tables on the scammers, leading them on with their own nonsense, strictly to waste the scammers’ time––a practice known as scambaiting.
This psychological warfare for clowns is being waged on the internet between criminals and comedians. On one side are fraudsters, usually from Nigeria, who con their victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, and on the other side are pranksters from around the world writing them back merely to yank their chains.
This book documents a weird form of cultural exchange made possible by the internet. It is a hilarious introduction to the “419” scam, with serious information about the scam and correspondences between the scammers and the people who mess with them–liars telling lies with compound interest to other liars.
Learn all about the “419” scam–how it started, how it’s done, who’s behind it and what can be done to fight it. The book also provides tips on how ordinary people can join in on the fun and bait these scammers.
Author Eve Edelson is the owner of the leading scambaiting website scamorama.com
SCAMORAMA: Turning the Tables on Email Scammers
Written by Eve Edelson
Disinformation Books * September 2006
Trade Paper * 216 pages * ISBN: 1-932857-38-9
Now available at the The Disinformation Store

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My Blog

HOLY HYENAS

Disinfo approached me about doing the book after they saw the hyena pic.Yeah baby. This is one of several pics sent to Scamorama by a Brazilian traveler on a trip to Nigeria. (Another hyena pic in the...
Posted by Scamorama on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:05:00 PST

The Wrath of Wikipedia

I took another step into modernity and signed up as a Wikipedia editor. My tenure may be shortlived.It was prompted by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud... which includes a list of ...
Posted by Scamorama on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:24:00 PST

Scamorama interview on the Leonard Lopate Show

Being interviewed by Leonard Lopate is a great interview experience. He knows his stuff, asks good questions and provides a generous time slot. Plus he has a nice relaxing voice.The Scamorama intervie...
Posted by Scamorama on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:27:00 PST

press: north adams transcript

John Mitchell of the North Adams Transcript has written a generous and thoughtful article about the Scamorama bookJohn also blogs at Last Visible Dog....
Posted by Scamorama on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:49:00 PST

press: info today

Syndicated columnist Reid Goldsborough has written an article about Scamorama with a technical slant in InfoToday.Reid is the author of the book Straight Talk About the Information Superhighway....
Posted by Scamorama on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:48:00 PST

BOOK READINGS IN NYC

On Nov. 4 and 5 I visited Brooklyn in the wonderful city of New York, NY to deliver book readings in these two fine venues:VoxPop bookstore (www.voxpopnet.net) andSunny's Bar in Red Hook (www.portsid...
Posted by Scamorama on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:26:00 PST

THE SCAMORAMA BOOK! WOO HOO!

The Scamorama book has come out:SCAMORAMA: TURNING THE TABLES ON EMAIL SCAMMERS, published by The Disinformation Company ;->A perfect Xmas gift for your scam-o-challenged relatives and colleagues!It h...
Posted by Scamorama on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:04:00 PST

What the heck is Scamorama?

Welcome to Scamorama's pied a terre at MySpace. Scamorama is the web site that asks the question: can a scammer pretending to be an orphan from a Sierra Leone mining town find happiness scamming peopl...
Posted by Scamorama on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:41:00 PST