Good News, The Son of the Deposed King of Nigeria Wants to Give Me Money!!!

It seems like a lot of the news shows are doing stories on Internet scams. Even Dateline took a break from their popular "To Catch a Predator" theme and developed a couple of shows appropriately titled to, "To Catch a ID Thief."

Though the different shows do a pretty good job of reporting the stories and giving tips on how to avoid being scammed, they don't do a very good job of showing us how to humiliate these people. That is why this web-site is such a good site to visit when you are looking for some time to kill.

419 Eater is a web-site devoted to baiting these scammers into thinking they are gullible Americans that are ripe for the picking. They then get into e-mail conversations and try to make the Nigerian scammers do ridiculous things. A popular thing to do is make the people grab random things and take pictures of themselves. The picture above is sent in from a Nigerian who thinks he is talking to the Pastor from a church called The Fish and Bread Church. In order for the Pastor to give them money, he had to show the parish a picture of the people they were going to help.

You can spend a lot of time looking at all the stories. It even shows you how to help out if you want to bait some of these scammers. Enjoy the link.

-Sean