But I don't LIKE spam!

My in-box is currently drowning in bouncebacks. My spam filter has trapped about 10,000 of them in the last 10 days.

Is my address book on the blink?

No

Maybe I've suddenly developed an inability to use Outlook correctly?

Ok, come on!

No, I am beset by bouncebacks of e-mails I never sent. Spammers have started using fake addresses from two of my domains in their latest missives.

I cannot say what I would like to do to these scum-sucking bottom feeders; I would be arrested. However I fervently hope that their scrotums will shortly wither and drop off...for starters.

Whilst hunting for further ideas of revenge, I discovered that plenty of others have the same idea. Scamming the scammers is virtually a sport as prospective victims turn the tables and vye with each other to see what ludicrous acts they can con their tame spammer into performing.

Fed up with pre-approved accounts? Think Cialis Soft Tabs are some kind of mint? Couldn't give a toss about the widowed wife of a former african minister? Don't even have a penis, far less one that needs enlarging?

Read on:


3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference

spamradio

scam-o-matic!

Those crazy academics | MetaFilter

FelonCheck.com - I Hate Scammers

Scamming The Scammers

Scam o Rama: The Lads from Lagos

Dumbentia - scamming the scammers

And here's Wil Wheaton on the subject

The master of revenge however has to be The Ebola Monkey Man. Anybody who can con scammers into posing for photos (and there's a gallery) whilst holding up signs such as "I love Juan King", he's OK by me.

And just in case they're feeling left out, here's one for the telemarketeers:

anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript

Now if I can just persuade the Americans that Osama has just been spotted in Nigeria...

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