Nigerian Parrot.

By Miss Cellania in Crime & Law, Video Clips on Feb 18, 2007 at 7:44 am

Nigerian 419 letters are the scourge of the internet. Inboxes are flooded with requests for help in moving large sums of money which can only result in emptying the recipientâ€™s wallet. Or it could result in comedy. Scammers sometimes run into “scambaiters”, who try to outwit the scammer for fun. Youâ€™ll find lots of stories of scambaiting at 419 Eater. In the above scenario, a scambaiter convinced the scammers that they could win a cash film scholarship by recreating Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch! Push play or go to YouTube. For comparison purposes, the original is on YouTube. Link to story. -via b3ta

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Aramax
Feb 18th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Simple question here… how does the scambaiters know that the people in the video are in fact the scammers?

Maybe it’s just a couple of guys the scammer filmed and he asked them to perform the task in question ( In this case the Monty Pythonâ€™s Dead Parrot sketch ).

Im sure there are more worthy video out there to be posted. Keep searching.
Jon
Feb 18th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Actually, on the site the scambaiter admits that they are probably not the scammer himself. However, hiring people to make the video ate a lot of his time that could have been spent scamming others.

This baiter is very good at getting carved items sent to him under the promise of around $25,000. He actually got this scammer to mail him a wooden bust of himself long before the video.
Anita
Feb 18th, 2007 at 11:13 am
And I always wondered why there wasn’t a Nigerian version of Flying Circus … I guess now I know

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