419 Scammers

[r1v3th3ad]

I just got an email from a scammer this morning...I wanna do what www.419eater.com does to them. I was thinking along the lines of saying that I work for Indiana University of Pennsylvania and am doing (insert project here) and that I need people to do (insert thing here). If it is valid, they recieve payment upto 150 thousand U.S. dollars...

One idea is that I'm in the psychology department and need people to videotape their ethnobotanical(some forms of N H Ts) experiences for research...I think it would be rather entertaining.

Any ideas post.
I want to respond to them by this evening.

Hell, we could even have a thing where I post back and forth on here and you guys could formulate what happens next and/or the next email sent to this scammer.


Lemme know

[r1v3th3ad]

cmon, no ideas smokers?

Edited January 25, 2008 by r1v3th3ad

[iamscott06]

When i read these i really wanted to try something.. but it would be kinda hard doing it from a e-mail address like.. iamscott06@blahblah.com or r1v3th3ad@blahblah.com..
I think for it to work you would have to make a business like e-mail then start getting spam on that.. then fuck with these people

[r1v3th3ad]

well, I am an IUP student, so I could use my IUP email and set it so it doesn't use my real name.
Thats why I liked the thought of using "I work for IUP (insert department here) and am currently on (some project), if you would like to participate, accurate (whatever) will be compensated with (some unrealistic amount of money)...like my psychology department idea

[jeans_redux]

I think using your IUP email would be too risky, because isn't your school email something like firstinitial_lastname@iup.edu or something like that? Even if you did change your name...

[r1v3th3ad]

there is the firstinitial.middleinitial.lastname@iup.edu or the random one like...tqun@iup.edu which is linked likewise, thats close to mine and it has nothing to do with your actually name.