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Special thanks to The Innocent Bystander for originally introducing me to the scambaiting site.
Many of you are familiar with internet scams. A few of them come from Nigeria, apparently the 419 scam does.
Scambaiters basically answer the typical scam with another scam in itself, leading on the scammer into thinking he's going to get some money and basically wasting his time. Time he could be devoting to scamming other individuals.
In this particular ruse, they've already lead a particular scammer on a wild goose chase, and now they've offered him a chance at a possible acting deal if he sends in a video reenactment of the, "Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch."
They then post the video for all to see. Sure, it's possible the scammer hired actors to do this for him as to avoid appearing on camera, but it sure is funny that they got him to do it. Here you go...
http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet? all_comments&v=LvyrzQldOKE&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3DLvyrzQldOKE
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