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	Scam baiting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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 (1047 words)

	Advance fee fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		419 guestbook spam is a type of spam in which Nigerian 419 scammers attempt to mark their "guestbook turf." The "lads", as the scammers are sometimes referred to, apparently depend in large part upon guestbook entries to harvest usable email addresses.
		In this type of scam the victim is asked to donate or invest in a local (often West African) charity or church.
		While no direct monetary benefit is presented to the victim, these scams are perpetrated by the same scammers that also employ more traditional advance fee fraud and the scams follow roughly the same modus operandi as the previously mentioned scams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Advance_fee_fraud (1047 words)

	Lottery scam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A typical lottery scam is a scam email that tells the recipient they have won a sum of money in a lottery.
		Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page that tells the recipient they have won a sum of money in the lottery.
		This scam is a version of an advance fee fraud scam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lottery_scam (576 words)

	The Head Heeb: Scam baiting on the stage
		In the typical scam bait, a 419 recipient strings the scammer along by pretending to be interested, demands that he do (and often photograph himself doing) foolish things, and then publishes the correspondence for the amusement of the public.
		Scam baits are funny as much because of their insult value - the bumbling fraudster outwitted - as for their intrinsic humor.
		In some ways, scam baits are the equivalent of Nigerian songs like "Chop Your Dollar," in that they celebrate the humiliation of the mark from another country.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/030555.html (1609 words)

	Art Loans Gone Awry - http://www.thecityreview.com/denney.html
		It would be complimentary to the Art Loss Register (http://www.artloss.com), a permanent computerized database of stolen and missing works of art, antiques and valuables, operating on an international basis to assist law enforcement agencies in the battle against art theft.
		A 4-year study by leading international art law experts under the auspices of the International Bar Association based in London and published in June, 1997, by Kluwer Law suggests that art loan controversies are far more common than might be supposed.
		He indicates that there are many pitfalls lurking within every art loan ready to catch the unwary and says that loan agreements place far too much reliance on trust and goodwill and too little on putting in place a legal framework to cover unlikely future events.
	www.thecityreview.com /denney.html (1609 words)

	Brudirect.com - Local News
		Observers said one modus operandi was for the scam artist to portray himself as a rich businessman who wanted to share a part of his wealth with the locals.
		Another known scam was for the artist to come to victims with architectural drawings of a proposed building the observers added.
		In another modus operandi, a scam artist organised two writing competitions a year ago but until now, results of the contests have not been announced and the organisers have kept quiet about them until now.
	www.brudirect.com /DailyInfo/News/Archive/May05/110505/nite11.htm (1609 words)

	domain-B : Indian business : economy : Telgi and the art of skulduggery
		The Telgi scam, as it has come to be known, is so huge that some put the loss to the various state exchequers at Rs 30,000 crore.
		Abdul Karim Telgi hails from Belgaum in Karnataka where in his formative years he is supposed to have officially graduated in commerce and unofficially graduated in the art of skulduggery.
		Telgi met the security press guys at Nashik and sweet charmed (bribed?) them to declare their machinery as junk and put the machinery on the auction block.
	www.domain-b.com /economy/general/200311nov/20031123_skulduggery.html (1609 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: Fraud: Advance Fee Fraud
		The 419 Coalition - Devoted to fighting the advance money scam, in which victims are offered millions for allowing an even greater sum to be deposited in their bank account, but end up having their accounts drained or being fooled into advancing fictitious taxes, fees or bribes.
		Graeme Caselton: Nigerian 419 scam - An explanation of this fraud and why it is dangerous, a running total of how much he has been offered by these spammers, names of the people with millions to give away, excerpts from several 419 e-mails.
		Urgent "Nigeria-419" Scam from South Africa - The sender of the e-mail solicitation claimed to be a South African V.I.P., but it was still the Nigerian 419 scam.
	dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Fraud/Advance_Fee_Fraud (1609 words)

	Nigerian 419 Scam
		The Nigerian 419 scam is particularly widespread and hence deserves its own section.
		The first move in the scam is an unexpected email which indicates that you could make / collect a large amount of money.
		As a final word of warning, 419 scammers are, as a rule, not nice people.
	nowknowhow.com /nigerian-419-scam.html (1609 words)

	Lottery scam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A typical lottery scam is a scam email that tells the recipient they have won a sum of money in a lottery.
		Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page that tells the recipient they have won a sum of money in the lottery.
		This scam is a version of an advance fee fraud scam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lottery_scam (574 words)

	Word Spy - scam baiting
		In one exchange, they pretend to be a retired general who is naively cooperating with the scam — until they invent a scheming girlfriend who threatens to expose the scam artist if she doesn't receive a cut of the money.
		Teasing a scam artist — particularly someone running the Nigerian advance fee fraud scheme — by feigning interest in the scam and forcing the scammer to perform silly or time-wasting tasks.
		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.
	www.wordspy.com /words/scambaiting.asp (615 words)

	Bait A Mugu
		Baiting a scammer involves replying to the emails with the knowledge it is all a scam.
		The 419 scams start off as an email offering a percentage of millions of dollars.
		All that is required from the scam victim is help transferring money into your safe bank account.
	baita.mugu.co.uk (230 words)

	Revenge of Victims
		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.
		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.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/business/10209150117.htm (1131 words)

	Email Lottery Scams - International Lottery Scam Information
		The details of the lottery scams vary regularly with regard to the name of the lottery itself, the country of origin, the sponsoring organization, the amount of the "prize" and other particulars.
		Lottery scams are one of the most common types of fraudulent email currently hitting inboxes.
		Those who initiate a dialogue with the scammers by replying to the lottery scam emails will eventually be asked for advanced fees to cover expenses associated with delivery of the supposed "winnings".
	www.hoax-slayer.com /email-lottery-scams.html (1081 words)

	Artist Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art
		Artist is a subjective term which describes a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, their endeavors.
		Billions of books, articles, essays and theses are written, academic courses created, and café discussions held in an effort to define "art" and "artist", and yet, there is no consensus amongst humans about what constitutes "art" or who is, or is not, an "artist".
		Most often, the term describes those who create in a cultural context, such as engaging in drawing, sculpting, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works of aesthetic value.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Artist (1081 words)

	Nigerian Scam
		The goal of the scam artist is to delude the victim into thinking that he or she has been singled out to participate in a very lucrative -- although questionable -- arrangement.
		The scam artist may even establish the credibility of his contacts, and thereby his influence, by arranging a meeting between the victim and "government officials" in real or fake government offices.
		Because it is a serious offense in Nigeria to enter without a valid visa, the victim's illegal entry may be used by the scam artists as leverage to coerce the victims into releasing funds.
	www.scambusters.org /NigerianFee.html (1081 words)

	NESARA scam!
		The scam artists pitching the NESARA scam claim that the “True NESARA Law” was already adopted by Congress in 2001, but that Congress has been keeping it a secret all this time (like anybody in Washington D.C. can really keep a secret about anything), and that soon the “True NESARA Law” will be announced.
		The primary scam artist goes by the name of "Dove of Oneness" or usually just “Dove” hosts a website called “The Four Winds” at http://www.fourwinds10.com that spews a bunch of New Age hooey, such as “Lord Ari’s Galactic Tales”.
		All of the “Prosperity Programs” (failed HYIP and bank debenture scams) will fund, giving zillions of dollars to those smart enough to have invested in them and believed in them even after their promoters were convicted of fraud and went to prison.
	www.quatloos.com /NESARA.htm (1081 words)

	Nigerian scam continues to thrive - - MSNBC.com
		Scam artists and their copycats have continued to adjust their pitch as members of the public become more aware of the hoax.
		The scam artist will generally try to offer a believable explanation: In one case, the overpaid check was described as a refund check from another Internet deal that didnât work out.
		The scam also took a deadly turn last month, when a victim in the Czech Republic allegedly shot and killed a Nigerian diplomat after losing his life savings to the scam.
	www.msnbc.com /news/881169.asp (1081 words)

	Blue chips start showing Telgi scam scars
		Telgi had recruited over 300 well-qualified agents, including MBAs, to sell his fabricated wares to companies, which have a large demand for government paper for daily transactions and agreements, the officer added.
		Although Telgi had a bona fide licence to sell government stamp papers, such vendors are not permitted to sell special adhesive stamps.
		The figure could climb because companies and banks are looking closely at their purchases of adhesive stamps and stamp paper between 1990 and 2002, when, according to the police, Abdul Karim Telgi's racket in fake stamp paper was flourishing.
	in.rediff.com /money/2003/nov/14stamp.htm (1081 words)

	Metropolitan Police Fraud Alert
		There are a myriad of schemes and scams - mail, faxed and telephone promises designed to facilitate victims parting with money.
		Advance fee fraud or '419' fraud (named after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code) is a popular crime with the West African organised criminal networks.
		The laws from Section 419 and laws in place in other jurisdictions criminalising the offences do not scare away the criminals who profit from these crimes.
	www.met.police.uk /fraudalert/419.htm (1081 words)

	Nigerian 419 Scam: Game Over!
		One of the existing scam scenarios is a modernized version of a centuries-old West African con called the "Red Mercury Scam", in which it is claimed that a special chemical is needed to clean the bank notes that have been purposely defaced in order to make them unusable.
		While many repeatedly targeted recipients recognize the Nigerian 419 scam for what it really is, a scam, and know that their initial contributions will be hopelessly lost, deleting the email or destroying the written correspondence usually ends of the incident.
		It is important to note that victims of any 419 scams should not expect or count on much or any assistance from the embassies or authorities, either locally or on the African continent.
	americanfocuspubsuii.tripod.com /id3.html (1081 words)

	419 Scam
		The letters have been officially dubbed the 419 scam after the Nigerian law that deals with such fraud.
		Scam artists from Nigeria have long been conning unsuspecting people out of large amounts of money, and have found a new target in recent years: Christians.
		The typical letter in the Christianized version of the scam comes from somebody who claims to be a Nigerian Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is being persecuted or is struggling with health problems and needs help.
	users.adelphia.net /~portdistumc/419_scam.html (1081 words)

	iScams
		What a gem in the world of 419 scam mails this is. It's supposedly from Nigeria, I'm supposed to help a shady chairman of some governmental committee to move 18 million dollars and I'm to receive a total of 40% of all that as a fee for opening my bank account for this transaction.
		Just as with the 419 scams, they attract their victims by the promise of a large sum of money, wrongfully earned, and just as non existing.
		The scambaiters over at 419eater.com are doing a great job at scamming any 419 scammer they can get their hands on.
	www.lindqvist.com /iscams (1081 words)

	419 Scam – Frequently asked Questions (FAQ)
		Note: If you forward a 419 scam mail in the body of your email to us (inline forward) without marking the subject then in some cases the mail is indistinguishable by software from a real 419 email.
		Modern variants of the scam started circulating from Nigeria by fax and postal mail in the 1980s and netted quite a few, often quite wealthy victims worldwide during the 1990s.
		In general, the main purpose of asking for the bank account is only to encourage the victim's belief that he/she is really about to receive a fortune in that account very soon, in order to melt his/her resistance to sending money to the scammers.
	www.joewein.de /sw/419faq.htm (1081 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.
		The 419 guestbook spam is a type of scam in which spammers attempt to mark their guestbook.
		There is also a presumption that the scam is of more than a hundred years of age.
	www.nigerianspam.com /research.html (411 words)

	Jul 2003 Curry favor, scam baiting, unbanked community - Fraud In Other Words by Larry Adams
		Scam baiting is a form of revenge – it tries to trick the tricksters.
		Teasing a scam artist by feigning interest in the scam and forcing the fraudster to perform silly or time-wasting tasks.
		Scam baiters use fictitious names, often based on mythological characters or dead celebrities.
	www.larry-adams.com /0307_article.htm (984 words)

	ScamBaits Home
		Although the "Advanced Fee Fraud" scam is also known as the "Nigerian 419 scam", this is because it is named after the section of the penal code that outlaws it in that country.
		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.
		Scamming is not the monopoly of any race, and this site will never tolerate any racist slurs, epithets or other such remarks.
	www.scambaits.com (716 words)

	Scam Joke Page
		Scam Bam Thank Ya Ma'am - The Lads are on to him.
		He is a master of scamming the scammer.
		Nigerian Scam Baiting- Bloodsport - Not yet an Olympic sport, but close.
	www.geocities.com /scamjokepage (342 words)

	David Rowan: Trendsurfing: Scam-baiting (The Times)
		Called "scam baiting", it aims to string the criminals along until their own greed makes them slip up and they themselves give away rather too much.
		By the time their victims know they have been scammed, the bad guys have disappeared.
		On websites such as Scamorama and 419 Eater (named for Section 419 of Nigeria's penal code), you can track these reverse scams in intricate detail, from the baiters' first wide-eyed e-mails to their quarries' final humiliation.
	www.davidrowan.com /2004/11/trendsurfing-scam-baiting-times.html (719 words)

	Word Spy - 419 scam
		Most people think of this as an e-mail scam, but its origins date to the 1980s, when the scammers would send out letters and faxes to businessmen and professionals around the world.
		The classic 419 scam asks the victim to help some hapless relative of a deposed despot get millions of dollars out of the con artist's country.
		The most recent racket involves "419" scams, so named because they violate section 419 of the Nigerian criminal code.
	www.wordspy.com /words/419scam.asp (545 words)

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