419eater.com is a website that provides advice and information on Scam Baiting, a practice in which a person will "Bait" a spammer by instigating an email exchange or correspondence and then try to make them do humiliating things. Members of 419eater.com will often get spammers to take pictures of themselves holding up humiliating signs and then post them on the site. 419eater.com is particularly focused on baiting scammers who are involved in the infamous Nigerian Internet Scam, which is a form of Advance Fee Fraud.
419eater.com Blogs and Commentaries
- Google Blog Search: 419eater.com
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Fast Facts
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CEO
Michael Berry aka "Shiver Metimbers"
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Over 20,000 registered accounts
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419 refers to a section of the Nigerian criminal code that deals with fraud
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Many spambaiters use aliases in order to avoid identification by the spammers
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Other scambaiting websites include Scam o Rama] and aa419.org]
