We've all been pestered by unsolicited SPAM emails from people we don't know, nor do we want to know. Sometimes the SPAM emails claim that we've won some obscure lottery in some obscure country and that the sender is trying to help us claim it.  Other times the sender claims to be the administrator of a banking account that belongs to either a deceased person with no family to claim the money, or to some political scoundrel who has fled the country but left millions of dollars in a hidden account.  And yet other times it is a woman you love very much who it turns out was only using you for all the free dinners, movies and gifts, only for her to turn around and say, "oh, you're a really nice guy, but I think we should just be friends", the whole while it turns out she was dating your best friend and talking crap about the size of your member.  Typically, these scams are operated from Nigeria.....except for the girlfriend one, unless you happen to be in Nigeria at the time.   They are referred to as 419 Scams or Advanced Fee Scams.

Of course, there are other scams out there as well.  What these scams have in common is that they are operated from countries that have lax law enforcement of internet crime, and by phishing with spam email, they prey on those poor souls who are seeking to make something from nothing.  I'm pretty sure that only God mastered making something from nothing.  And a few poor  immigrants to America.  And Bill Gates.  And possibly Tom Cruise, but that's only because of his cult and Oprah Winfrey.  Ok, that's a lie.  He had a good career going well before Scientology and Oprah.  I'll just be honest, I don't like him.  Although I did watch War of the Worlds, but it was only because that Dakota Fanning kid is such a great actress.  Ok, I'm seriously getting away from the point of this web site, friggin' Tom Cruise.

The best course of action to take?  Ignore and delete the emails as you receive them.  There's no such thing as a free lunch, my friends.  Well, unless you are eating at a homeless shelter, then it's a free lunch.  And probably with free dessert, too.  At Christmas there's probably some cranberry sauce and deviled eggs.  Sometimes you might get lucky and be offered seconds.  Of course, you're probably also going to be covered in lice and sleeping under a bridge, so it brings me back to my original hypothesis that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Ok, it's debatable. I mean the homeless shelter part.  The scam part being a free lunch isn't debatable.  It's pretty much a fact. 

As for me, I've created this web site as a means of entertaining myself with my new found hobby of responding to the scammers.  I use several different free, web-based email accounts and provide the scammers with false information.  I draw out the exchanges for as long as possible, while still maintaining some sense of fun for myself.  Usually the email exchanges end with the scammer just not wanting to respond to me anymore, or with them getting pissed off and not responding anymore.  The bottom line is that I am wasting their time....and possibly my own.  Again, something that is up for debate.   For people like scammers, Time = $$$*, so I am hitting them in the right spot. Please feel free to kick back and peruse my list of correspondences.

*$$$ = Money; Argent; Dinero
Here are Sam & Nick, two of the bravest scam slappers on the internet. Click on their image to view a menu of scam correspondence to date.  If they frighten you because of their choice in progressive styled undergarments,  then click on the admission ticket below instead, sheesh.
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