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Scam the spammers

15th October 2002

Here’s a fun new way to waste time on the internet: Scamming Nigerian spammers. This guy has a whole bunch of entertaining email exchanges with Nigerian scam artists, but the best has to be the Cthulu themed scam. Watch the Nigerian scam artists get slowly sucked in to a world of cults, demons and unspeakable horror.

Posted 15th October 2002 at 11:20 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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