The Guardian lifts the lid on Nigerian Scam Baiting:

It has been described as the internet’s first blood sport and is fast
becoming one of the web’s favourite pastimes. Fed up with having their inboxes clogged with emails from Nigerian fraudsters promising untold riches, the victims are finally hitting back.

Scam-baiting – replying to the emails and stringing the con artists along with a view to humiliating them as much as possible – is becoming increasingly popular with more than 150 websites chronicling the often hilarious results.

If only there could be such sweet revenge for victims of comment spam.

Via fibreculture.