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(#5) A Spammer Got Charged $40 By UPS After A Redditor Sent A Box Of Gravel
Redditor /u/AngelOfLight pulled the ultimate troll move on a spammer, managing to trick the spammer out of $40 in the process. The Redditor posted an ad for their PS2 on eBay, then received an email from a person claiming to be an African pastor. The pastor was hoping to get the PS2 at a reduced rate for their orphanage, and the Redditor agreed.
After a little digging, the Redditor tracked the spammer's location to an internet cafe in Lagos, Nigeria. The spammer sent a prepaid UPS label to the Redditor, who slapped it onto a box full of gravel. The spammer was infuriated when they got the package, for which they were charged a $40 delivery fee.
To add insult to injury, the Redditor falsely claimed they had contacted the FBI and given over the spammer's information.
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(#11) New Zealand Web Developers Created A Tool To Frustrate Scammers
Netsafe stops spammers every day. The New Zealand-based company developed Re:scam, a service that allows you to get some sweet revenge against spammers. The program is designed to waste as much time as possible and anyone can use it.
Just forward your next spam email to [email protected]. Once they receive the email, a bot will start conversing with the spammer and pretend to be a gullible mark for as long as possible. The bot will go as far as dealing out fake information. For instance, it will send the spammer a fake bank account number, but only one digit at a time.
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(#7) A Prankster Tried To Get The Spammer To Hire Him
Mark Pothier of the Boston Globe kept one of his spammers in the lurch for some time, as he made absurd demands and sent rambling emails about the weather. The spammer claimed Pothier agreed to be a representative for their company, and asked for Pothier's personal information. What the spammer got instead was a string of emails detailing Pothier's move to Canada, his disdain for barley, and his lucky number.
Pothier tried to negotiate his commission as a new staffer and also demanded a fancy title that would look good on his business cards. After corresponding for some time, the spammer rescinded their "generous" offer.
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(#8) A Redditor Managed To Take Control Of Their Spammer's Car
Not all spammers are trying to get money out of you. Take the case of Redditor /u/F3nman, who discovered that someone was using their email address to sign up for spam. The Redditor was fed up with the spam emails, but had little to no means of counteracting them. That is, until the spammer signed up for a Sirius XM radio service, not knowing they had just given the Redditor access to their car's horn.
F3nman started honking the horn whenever other Redditors requested it, before eventually leaving a note in the app: "stop using my email."
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(#6) A Redditor Apparently Got A Spammer Fired
Redditor /u/sledge-oatmeal-deer claims to normally ignore spammers, except on one special occasion. The man asked them to sign up for some account with a referral code, and the Redditor reacted by getting the spammer fired.
Apparently, the spammer was using his company's servers to engage in fraudulent activity, and the Redditor managed to track down the business. As it turns out, the spam messages they were being sent were far from legal, and the spammer could be fined up to $750 per message.
The Redditor emailed the company about what their employee was up to during work hours, and a little while later the man's picture was removed from the company website.
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(#1) James Veitch Has Made A Career Out Of Trolling Spammers
To defeat a spammer, you have to think like a spammer. James Veitch took this advice to the next level when he decided to embark on a crusade against spammers. He's managed to take this unusual hobby and turn it into a full-on career, even writing a book about his experience as a spam fighter.
According to Veitch, the most important thing you can do is waste a spammer's time. In a TED Talk, Veitch discussed the first time he ever responded to a spammer in detail.
One day, Veitch received an email from a man offering him an exclusive business deal. Veitch decided to play along, asking for details on the deal. The spammer informed him that he wanted to ship Veitch $2.5 million dollars in gold, but Veitch had bigger ideas. He kept asking for more and more gold, made fake graphs to illustrate his business savvy, and forced the spammer to speak to him in a ridiculous code.
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With the rapid development of the Internet, e-mail has made our life more convenient, while also allowing more spammers to find opportunities to profit from spam. For various purposes, spammers will bombard the target mailbox, which would affect normal communication and cause a lot of trouble to the owner of the mailbox. More and more witty people have come up with creative ways to retaliate against spammers.
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