I just received a 419 email (really)

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Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on July 1, 2009 at 3:26am

Like I say, the best way to deal with these assholes is to waste their time with confused responses requesting further information from disposable email accounts. Its not something they can automate. Spam complaints are useless.

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Permalink Reply by Joey on July 1, 2009 at 4:36am

Yeah, replying to those things is epic fun.
Some of them you can string along for weeks. Act confused a lot and forget to reply to them for a couple days. They'll start getting more and more panicky about getting your bank account information as time goes by.
If they think they smell a sucker, they'll hang on to the very end trying to get it out of you. Which is what's such fun. It doesn't even take much of your time...but it wastes a lot of theirs. They have to constantly work to think of ways to talk you into the scam...All you have to do is reply with random nonsense.
The ones on the phone are just as much fun. I kept a guy that was trying to get my social security number/credit card number on the phone for almost 2 1/2 hours talking about all sorts of bullshit. Mostly playing up my southern accent and rambling about fishing, hunting, and Jesus,(None things I actually bother with.) without letting him get a word in. It was a slow day and I didn't have anything else to do.

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