419 Scammers Find the Parrot is Deceased

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

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I’m not sure how many folks are falling for 419 scams anymore — there are plenty of other scams out there that are working considerably better right now — but one scambaiter got his scammers to act out the Dead Parrot sketch. Quite funny.

419 scammers tricked into re-creating Dead Parrot Sketch [BoingBoing]

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