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In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
 THISDAYonline
The latest phenomenon in the advanced fee fraud (419) saga is scam baiting, an Internet joust in which the hunted uses the con artist's most formidable tool, the e-mail and the Internet, to turn the table against the hunter.
But with the advent of Internet technology things changed and scammers never had to rely on the mail anymore.
But scam baiters never give their true phone numbers except perhaps when they unmask their identities at the end of the game.
www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2003/10/25/20031025sxt01.html   (2391 words)

  
 Word Spy - scam baiting
I have just discovered the art of 'scam baiting', that is replying to Nigerian Scam letters and trying to trick the scammers, on such attempt is laden with Mythos references.
It must be by now only the rarest of Internet users who hasn't received a version of the "Nigerian advance fee" scam, where people are asked to provide fees up front to help unlock a deposed ruler's fortune or to signal good faith as a partner in a business project.
That anyone should fall for these laughable and badly written letters, probably the commonest scam on the internet, tells you a lot about human greed and gullibility.
www.wordspy.com /words/scambaiting.asp   (615 words)

  
 Word Spy - scam baiting
I have just discovered the art of 'scam baiting', that is replying to Nigerian Scam letters and trying to trick the scammers, on such attempt is laden with Mythos references.
It must be by now only the rarest of Internet users who hasn't received a version of the "Nigerian advance fee" scam, where people are asked to provide fees up front to help unlock a deposed ruler's fortune or to signal good faith as a partner in a business project.
That anyone should fall for these laughable and badly written letters, probably the commonest scam on the internet, tells you a lot about human greed and gullibility.
www.wordspy.com /words/scambaiting.asp   (615 words)

  
 ScamBaits Home
It's somewhere that like minded scambaiting enthusiasts of this so-called "new Internet blood-sport" can get together, have a chat, compare notes and exchange new ideas.
The world of internet scamming is pretty darn big, and there's a lot of "fraudstars" out there who right now are thinking about how to trick you, you and yes, you, out of your hard earned cash.
Baiters versus Scammers- Scambaiting at its finest.
www.scambaits.com   (716 words)

  
 Scam Baiting For Fun And… Well, Just For Fun (Aunty Spam's Net Patrol)
Scam baiting - the act of leading scammers on a wild goose chase - has been raised to a new art form with the advent of the Internet, and Internet scammers.
While some do it on their own, for the sheer joy of baiting a scammer, groups and even complete websites have sprung up, all dedicated to scamming 419 scammers.
And unlike the controversial Mugu Marauder, which encourages untargeted users to churn bandwidth of Web sites which may themselves be innocent, the individuals involved with the 419 scam baiting sites are responding directly to 419 scammers who have targeted them.
channels.lockergnome.com /windows/archives/20050727_scam_baiting_for_fun_and_well_just_for_fun.phtml   (410 words)

  
 Links - 419.bittenus.com
Through the Internet, businesses and individuals around the world have been and continue to be targeted by perpetrators of 419 scams.
The only anti scam internet site written in portuguese language.
Scam Victims United offers support and resources to victims through message groups and networking with other victims.
419.bittenus.com /links.htm   (383 words)

  
 Scam baiting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scam baiting is almost always an Internet pastime and is very rarely conducted for other purposes.
Scam baiting can also be considered a type of sting operation, although many scambaits are simply to waste time instead of catching the scammer, so it may not fit the definition.
Some claim that scam baiting is racist, since the targets of choice are black Africans, whereas the scambaiters are from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scam_baiting   (725 words)

  
 Scam baiting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scam baiting is almost always an Internet pastime and is very rarely conducted for other purposes.
Scam baiters claim that a beneficial side-effect of scam baiting has been the exposure of false and fraudulent "banking" and "credit" services, which are often created by the scammers to further their scams and make them seem legitimate.
Scam baiting can also be considered a type of sting operation, although many scambaits are simply to waste time instead of catching the scammer, so it may not fit the definition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scam_baiting   (1047 words)

  
 SPAMMER NIGERIA 419 SCAM EMAIL FRAUD STOP SPAM DESPAM SPAMCOP FIGHTSPAM ELIMINATE SPAM ASSASIN HOAX
Scam baiting in simple words, is wasting the precious time of a spammer pretending that you are interested in their schemes.
Many internet groups have now started to do this process.
The 419 guestbook spam is a type of scam in which spammers attempt to mark their guestbook.
www.nigerianspam.com /research.html   (411 words)

  
 Revenge of Victims
Stories about the so-called Nigeria scams are as frequent on the pages of many foreign newspapers and internet newsgroups as the appearance of the e-mails themselves.
Call it the revenge of the scammed, one persuaded his contact to send him five dollars as a sign of good faith and another says he tricked his contacts to sending pictures of themselves, which he posted on his website.
The blogger says the basic idea is to be the biggest pest to the scammer and waste as much of their time as possible and have a bit of fun along the way as well.
www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/business/10209150117.htm   (1131 words)

  
 the 419 Scam: basis, statistics, regulation
Private responses include scam baiting, misleading the scammers.
The median loss was US$5575, compared to a median for all internet fraud of US$435.
Precursors of the email scam - like those of online chain letters - can be traced back several centuries, with the so-called Turkish Letter and Spanish Letter frauds of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
www.caslon.com.au /419scamnote.htm   (1608 words)

  
 Spam Links - 419 advance-fee fraud scam
In what has been referred to as the “Internet Bloodsport”, unsuspecting scammers have their scam reflected back at them.
The 419 scam is an advance-fee fraud named after the relevant article of Nigeria's penal code.
It is strongly associated with West Africa, in particular Nigeria, hence the other name of “The Nigerian Scam”.
spamlinks.net /scams-advancefee-419.htm   (550 words)

  
 419 Zeros Home
This internet sport has become known as "scambaiting".
It is becoming increasingly popular to correspond with the con artists that send these letters in order to reverse the scam and have some fun with them.
You have received an advance fee fraud letter, or 419 scam letter as it’s also known.
www.419zeros.com   (158 words)

  
 30 phony documents used in Nigerian 4-1-9 frauds and car buying scams
At the bottom are 16 counterfeit checks from buying scams aimed at people selling cars and other items on the Internet.
Scam Checker has list of scamster e-mail addresses, images of fake checks, and more.
Pictured below are images of documents used in a recent Nigerian 4-1-9 scam perpetrated on Yuiry Gaydamaschuk, a poor Christian fellow in Russia.
www.swapmeetdave.com /Scam/Russia.htm   (313 words)

  
 Instead of a Blog - SPAMplitude (Wirkman Virkkala)
And the spammers who scam these victims should be prosecuted — not because of any special Internet rules they've violated, but because the scammers engage in theft by outrageous deception.
Most of us do not have the time or the inclination to string along scam artists with a mirror-image of their own art, but we do have time to behave responsibly with our email client software.
And of the spam that is scam, some of it is almost mesmerizing.
www.insteadofablog.com /2003.12.12.shtml   (3281 words)

  
 Internet IPM Resources on Vertebrate Pests
Fox Baiting (Vertebrate Pest Research Services, Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Australia) - Discusses the use of 1080 baits;1080 poison; effective poisoning periods; community baiting drives; howmany baits; where to lay baits; how to lay baits; improving the percentageof baits taken; and baiting evaluation.
Biology of Feral Goat (Capra hircus) (Vertebrate Pest Research Services,Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Australia)- A general articleon biology and control.
Vertebrate Pests CRC Homepage: Australian Government's CooperativeResearch Centres Program, is a collaboration involving four partners: AgricultureWestern Australia, the Australian National University, CSIRO Wildlife andEcology, and the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management three of Australia's most intractable pests; the European rabbit, the red fox and the wild house mouse.
www.ippc.orst.edu /cicp/Pests/vertebrate.htm   (891 words)

  
 The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management: home
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The pest management recommendations of this web site may not be applicable to or effective in every geographic location or situation, nor do the recommendations suggest legality in every state or jurisdiction.
The Center is please to announce that Wildlife Control Technology Magazine has graciously allowed us to make all six issues of their 1994 inaugural year available to our visitors.
wildlifedamage.unl.edu   (891 words)

  
 Ethics of the Hunt and Salt Bait
When the salt-bait issue surfaced the Turners were very vocal about their practice of salt baiting and were pushing for legalization of salt-baiting and probably still are........under wide spread public scrutiny (mostly because of the internet) they have become silent on the issue.
Some salt baits are placed just steps from Forest Service trails, within 100 yards of the national park boundary, and less than a quarter of a mile from major campsites where metal boxes have been installed for keeping human food away from bears.
A salt-bait pit is a place where blocks or piles of salt are dumped in order to attract elk and other creatures.
www.wall-of-shame.com /offenders/saltbait   (3006 words)

  
 In Reply to Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti
Featherstone is a free-lance journalist who wrote red-baiting attacks on the ISO for the Nation Magazine in her capacity as "movement" expert.
An article co-authored by Doug Henwood, his wife Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti has been making the rounds on the Internet.
It is now the subject of discussion on Indymedia, a website geared to anti-globalization activists, and Infoshop, an anarchist website run by the red-baiting Chuck Munson.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/activistism.htm   (3006 words)

  
 American Politics Journal -- Showing Those Pearly Whites for the Right
Let me further distinguish Bruce's internet slur from other forms of gay-baiting.
Bruce's attitude isn't surprising considering her favorable characterization of George W. Bush as 'a cowboy.' Bush isn't a cowboy: he's a pussy.
Those of you familiar with this phenomenon won't be too surprised to learn that I got the bigoted graphic from Tammy Bruce (her web site can be found here), a Fox News Democrat who is also a lesbian.
americanpolitics.com /20041229Davis.html   (3006 words)

  
 McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Goofus, Gallant, Rashomon
Goofus was baiting him — he was looking right at me with this smirk on his face while he set the plate down.
Goofus' tombstone is not marked well and hard to find, but the teenage kids have started making pilgrimages to it.
Gallant was the total company man. There's not a buzzword he didn't use to death.
www.mcsweeneys.net /2003/08/18rashomon.html   (1350 words)

  
 Reason
But the effects are disturbing: Fed on a steady diet of Behind Enemy Lines, 24, The Peacemaker, Bad Company, and countless Serb-baiting episodes of JAG, how will our children ever make their peace with the Kostunica administration?
Golan has lately been reduced to obviously penning his own bio page at the Internet Movie Database.
On the other hand, Golan and Globus haven't had a hit for more than ten years, and their company, Cannon pictures, is out of business.
www.reason.com /hod/tc121602.shtml   (1350 words)

  
 The Trucido Dolus Lorica Project, against 419, Advance Fee Fraud
Fraud, 419 fraud, advance fee, scam, Nigerian scam, spam, net fraud, Internet fraud, scam baiting,
Dolus: Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud.
The Trucido Dolus Lorica Project, against 419, Advance Fee Fraud
www.trucidodolusloricaproject.com   (41 words)

  
 Calcutta News
Calcutta, Aug. 21: Until recently, Internet hoaxes were limited to kin of African rulers wanting to share their inherited wealth with you for a small payment or spammers posing as your bank asking for the...
The Ohio Department of Health's annual rabies vaccination baiting air drop is scheduled to begin Tuesday in northeast Ohio, with Columbiana County among the counties to be targeted.
A city man was arrested Monday for allegedly picking up a girl near a local high school and raping her at a nearby cemetery.
www.topix.net /city/calcutta-oh   (41 words)

  
 Search Engine Watch: Tips About Internet Search Engines & Search Engine Submission
February 24, 2006 - Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Releases Web Page Creator & Free Hosting Labs Beta - MSN Rolls Out New Search Interface & Algorithm- Photos Get Google in Trouble Over Copyright Law - Link Baiting Our Future?
If it is related to search engines in some way, you'll find it here.
This area of Search Engine Watch covers search engine registration and submission tips, such as using meta tags, improving placement and how to submit URLs.
searchenginewatch.com   (744 words)

  
 The Trucido Dolus Lorica Project, against 419, Advance Fee Fraud
Fraud, 419 fraud, advance fee, scam, Nigerian scam, spam, net fraud, Internet fraud, scam baiting,
Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates, is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from investors living in rich countries in Europe, Australia, or North America.
They have come to be associated in the public mind with Nigeria due to the massive proliferation of such confidence tricks from that country since the mid-eighties, although they are often also carried out in other African nations, and increasingly from European cities with large Nigerian populations, notably London and Amsterdam.
www.trucidodolusloricaproject.com   (744 words)

  
 The Trucido Dolus Lorica Project, against 419, Advance Fee Fraud
Fraud, 419 fraud, advance fee, scam, Nigerian scam, spam, net fraud, Internet fraud, scam baiting,
Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates, is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from investors living in rich countries in Europe, Australia, or North America.
They have come to be associated in the public mind with Nigeria due to the massive proliferation of such confidence tricks from that country since the mid-eighties, although they are often also carried out in other African nations, and increasingly from European cities with large Nigerian populations, notably London and Amsterdam.
www.trucidodolusloricaproject.com   (165 words)

  
 taint.org: Archives
There's an odd battle building in the dark alleys and byways of the Internet, being fought by diverse characters such as Dr. Sigmund Freud, Kris Kringle, the late Princess Margaret, a German-Hungarian gypsy called Hans Gneesunt-Boompsadazi, a Chinese restaurateur called Hu Flung Dung, and the Patagonian Liberation Front.
These guys have taken the art of 419er-baiting to the ultimate extreme -- they're successfully extracting money from the 'Lads from Lagos':
The 419ers Meet Their Match 00:08, Tue 20 May 2003 #
taint.org /arch-2001-2003/12.html   (165 words)

  
 Internet Book List :: Book Information: Bartholomew Fair
The play was produced simultaneously at Court and the Hope Theatre, site of bear-baiting, and through his and the puppet-show with which the play concludes, Jonson reflects on drama, actors, the theatre and his rivals Marlowe and Shakespeare.
Using the Fair as a symbolic representation of religious, social and political conflicts in Jacobean England, Jonson satirizes Puritans, fortune hunters, country bumpkins and inept representatives of the justice system, along with sharpsters and conmen who inhabit the Fair.
Bartholomew Fair is the climactic play of Ben Jonson's great comic period.
www.iblist.com /book20460.htm   (132 words)

  
 Yellow Pine Chipmunk - Biggest pine resource on the Internet
populations after baiting, but yellow pine chipmunk populations were not adversely...
Populations of the yellow pine chipmunk, Eutamias amoenus.
Alpine chipmunk (Tamias alpinus) Yellow pine chipmunk (Tamias amoenus)...
pine.kickno.info /index.php?k=yellow-pine-chipmunk   (132 words)

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