TAKE THAT!!!

http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm

Most people I know remember the old Nigerian bank fraud scam where someone claiming to be a prince in Nigeria tries to get your bank account information in order to transfer $25 million into your account in order to "bypass international laws" regarding offshore accounts owned by Nigerian officials or somesuch tripe. The scammer then takes your bank account information and proceeds to take all your money out of your account and leaves you hanging.

A good tip. Never ever ever ever ever give any passwords or account numbers over email. Nobody will ask you for anything like this over an email. I wouldn't even follow links from emails (like the Paypal account scam email) asking you to verify credit card numbers in a site. If you get an email from Paypal and it is legit, they will ask you to go to their main site and fill in your information from there and not from some linked site.

Aaaanyways....this is a group of British people who call themselves "scambaiters" who pretend to fall for scams in order to screw with scammers, and post their email conversations on this webpage. This is one of the funniest things I have ever read. They even talked the scammer out of about $80! Justice is theirs!!!

The $80 was given to a local charity. :-)

Take a look, have a laugh, and start to form that healthy paranoia you will need to not get taken for a ride.

Note: Anyone looking to send their email passwords or bank account information out to a complete stranger can send them to me at my email address above. If you do so I promise I'll transfer $25 million in as soon as I get the cash up. Honest.