Fun with Scams and Spam

We've come to take certain internet annoyances for granted. We've installed software to filter and block what we can and, most of us, can recognize an online scam from a mile away and know to remain a mile away from it. Here, though, are a couple of sites with owners that have found their own ways of dealing with the scams and abundant spam we've come to accept as a part of our everyday world online.

First, at 419 Eater, you'll find a community that has grown up there around the practice of scambaiting, or engaging and wasting the time and efforts of online scammers. One wants to transfer money to your account, here we learn that while we don't want to share our account info, it is fun and rewarding to engage in a long drawn out online conversation with this asshole, thus keeping him tied up and away from another, unsuspecting victim. It's fun and really rewarding, because you know you're helping others, while at the same time fucking with someone who deserves the aggravation. Everybody wins. Except the scammers. Those bastards.



















On the Spamradio site, you'll find spam, the dreaded source of so much email clutter, transformed into musical expressions. Every known major source and type of spam is included here, even the Nigerian 419 Scam, after which the previous website was named. Here, though, instead of trying to frustrate it's purveyors and eradicate it, it is transformed into something enjoyable: music.




































There's no shortage of paper junk mail to pile up in our real mailboxes either. And, luckily, there's a site devoted to combating that problem as well.












The creators of this site even offer some creative uses for all the crappy junk mail you've already received.













































I'm thinking of using mine to build myself a summer home.