Scam baiting
Scam baiting is the practice of pretending interest in a fraudulent scheme in order to manipulate the scammer. The purpose of scam baiting might be to waste the scammers' time, embarrass them, cause them to reveal information which can be passed on to legal authorities in the hope that they will be prosecuted, or simply to amuse the baiter.
Scam baiting emerged in response to e-mail based frauds such as the common Nigerian 419 scam. Several websites publish transcripts of correspondences between baiters and scammers - these are rarely verifiable by the reader.
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