Scam baiting is the act of tricking 419 scammers (also known as Nigerian scammers or Advanced Fee Fraudsters) into wasting their time on a fake victim—sometimes for weeks, months, or years—in order to ...

They pilfer nearly $200 million from Americans annually and drive some of their victims to suicide, but Nigeria's notorious e-mail scam artists may finally have met their match -- and the results can ...

Everybody has their own way of dealing with phone scammers. I tried different tactics. When someone tried to sell me an extended car warranty I played “the dumbest man in the world.” When they asked ...

Internet users are outscamming the scammers in a competition for who can be the wickedest Internet vigilante, reports the New York Times. Scam-baiters are taking glorious revenge on the mostly African ...

Fraudulent Nigerian inheritance e-mails are conning people out of their money. Commentator Robin Washington decided to turn the tables on the scammer, but some people go much farther. West African ...

The gentle voice of an elderly woman named Edna is heard over the phone. "I'm going to call Ticketmaster and see if we can get us some tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, OK?" she says. "Will you call ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Pick up the phone these days and chances are it's a scammer on the other end. "When you hear someone saying they're from the IRS it is a shock," says Jennifer Redick, of Elderton.

Today, for free, a scammer can run a text draft through artificial intelligence and clean it up so well that a high school grammar teacher would be proud. MICHAEL MULVEY / 173789 Reader R.V. Baugus of ...

Feb. 10 -- If you've ever received an unsolicited e-mail from a stranger in a foreign land offering to transfer vast amounts of wealth to your bank account in return for a small upfront fee, let's ...

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