419eater.com
419eater.com is scam baiting website which focuses on advance fee fraud. The website founder and CEO is Mike, known by the alias of Shiver Metimbers. The 419 Eater forum has over 19 thousand registered accounts.
The website chronicles various reverse scams with email threads and commentary by the participants. The site hosts photographs of individuals reported to be scammers in silly poses or holding humorous signs, such as "I recommend 419eater".
In some cases, the scambaiters claims to have gotten the scammers to send them money with a ploy similar to the original flim flam. According to the website, the proceeds of such reverse scams was given to a local charity. However, the moderators of the site, as well as an overwhelming majority of the members, have taken a stand against so-called cash baiting or its discussion on 419eater.
The 419eater community also engages in the activity of identifying and removing fake banks and other websites created by the scammers from the internet. It does this in cooperation with Artists Against 419 who host a large, publicly accessible database of fake banks.
419eater's anti-racism policy
"It should be made very clear that in no way do we target people of a certain skin colour; we simply respond to scam emails that we receive, and it is a sad fact that most of them do seem to originate from Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, and South Africa." -- from 419eater.com's disclaimer
"This site in NO WAY endorses racism. Scambaiting is NOT a racist activity. Anyone with racist views is most definitely NOT welcome on this site. 419eater maintains a ZERO tolerance policy towards racism." -- Another disclaimer
See also
External links
- 419eater.com
- The 419eater forum with over 19,000 members
- Turning the tables on Nigeria's email conmen