AS for that particular Nigerian scam, and its variants, I just send them an email saying I'd be glad to help, but it first requires a payment of 50,000 dollars to my PayPal account as a token of good faith, and that will not be refundable under any circumstances whether we do business or not.
I haven't figured out what to do with all this excess money....yeah, right.
Of course, I haven't been contacted again.
Spam the spammers with everything you can find. Play dirty. Subscribe them to gay, pedophile, bestiality, self mutilation, rape, and murder sites until your hands get tired of typing.
Isn't there some "nuclear bomb" file available that you can send them that pulls stunts with Winzip and unzips a file of infinite length, crashing the victim's computer?
I say, use that on scammers and spammers all you
want.
I've recently been sent scams relating to ebay and Western Union. Both tried to say that there's an account problem, please go to to this website and reenter your info (including passwords and account names!) before we shut down your accounts.
I don't have an account with Western Union.
So I went to the provided fake page that the shitbags use for harvesting data off of unsuspecting idiots, and entered GO FUCK YOURSELF in every damned line.
And of course I forwarded the spam to the authorities.
I routinely "rogue cancel" repeated spam messages to certain newsgroups, too.
It's not like anyone who's posting 'enlarge your cock' ads to random newsgroups under a throwaway or forged email address is going to complain when his messages disappear anyway.
Now that we have a national 'do not call' list, how about a national 'do not spam me' list, too?
CJ