Vigilante Australian Webmaster Turns the Tables and Scams Nigerian Scammer

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Vigilante Australian Webmaster Turns the Tables and Scams Nigerian Scammer

07-02-2006, 08:35 AM,

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Vigilante Australian Webmaster Turns the Tables and Scams Nigerian Scammer

Quote:The tables have been turned on at least one Nigerian scammer after an online vigilante successfully played him at his own game with an intricately laid "anti-scam" operation.

The campaign netted a life-sized wooden carving of a Commodore 64 computer keyboard which was sent all the way from Africa to the scambaiter who is code-named Shiver Metimbers...

Shiver Metimbers runs a website called 419eater.com, which is an internet hub for scam-baiting advice and war-stories. But his most recently celebrated exploit is what he describes as an "artwork anti-scam" in which he poses as the director of Derek Trotter Fine Arts...

full article: http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/s...22991.html

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