Have you heard of 419 Eater?
Well, this is a site set up specifically for the baiting of pretty much any internet scam. The name originates from the original Nigerian 419 Scam, known internationally as “4-1-9″ fraud after the section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes.
It has several hilarious examples of how the scammers have had the tables turned upon them and have themselves succumbed to an elaborate counter-scam.
The man in adjacent image has become something of minor celebrity, with his face now recognisable as the bungling criminal who was persuaded to put a fish on his head and bread in his mouth in a nefarious attempt to get a grieving church to pay him money.
Well, I have been waiting and waiting for a call from the Indian telephone scammers, my webcam poised! Why? Because I want to scam them back, and not just keep them on the phone for hours.
No, I want them to place various fruits or vegetables about their bodies, and then send me a picture. I then want them to call me, and record their reaction when they read the future blog post that has the picture emblazened with “HAHAHA YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED’ or something.
But it doesn’t have to be me! Why not try it yourself? Many folk are taking to wasting their time, but I say, take it further. These people are trying to rip off, con and embezzle your hard-earned money from you! They deserve everything they get.
So take some time to peruse the 419 Eater, and maybe concoct your own elaborate scheme.
Other Articles
This is one of an ongoing series of articles that I have written following this scam. You can find them under the following tag group:
http://www.jameswiseman.com/blog/tag/windows-support-telephone-scam/
James..
Windows Microsoft scam
Why wait, ring them on this site..
http://techisonline.com/
They have rung me 4 times and as I said on my last post I was IT Security.. They hung up immediately.
[...] noticed a suspicious entry in my visitor logs from an IP in Calcutta looking at the last Scam post – ’Scamming the Scammers’. My suspicions were confirmed when the IP linked back to one of the websites quoted by the [...]
[...] which is more than they deserved. I’ve got a nice counter-scam dreamed up as well (see This Post for my thoughts on [...]
[...] few months ago I wrote about trying to counter-scam the Indian Windows Telephone Support Scammers, and it would seem that I have a champion in someone called [...]
I was called today by a chap who claimed to be representing ‘Windows Support’.
He sai that my computer was infected by thousands of viruses. He wanted me to tunrn on my computer so that he could show me where they are.
When I asked him for some credentials and verification of Windows Support, he simply began his script again. After several attempts, I simplified my question to asking how many computers they fixed last week. Eventually this brougt the response – Several thousand.
Realising I was unimpressed, he enquired what right I had to make such a demand. Who did I think I was? I replied that I had believed that I was a potential customer. He did agree with that! But I got no more information. I was given a website – windowssupport.info – which I have NOT tried.
I finally refused again to turn on my computer and he terminated the call. Not many points to me for wasting his time. I managed to avoid explaining my IT background with major UK companies before I retired as a Senior Software Engineer. I was working in Personal Computing before there was a Personal Computer.
Many development and implementation projects required traing new users, and explaining to them the need for the Anti Virus and Firewall tools which IT supplied. My close liaison with the security experts meant that this kind of scam was easy to spot
CoolPeter