[danbower]

419 eater is a site dedicated to exactly that. The general idea is to act totally clueless about everything. They want a scan of your passport? Request instructions on how to use a scanner and do everything wrong. Some people take this a lot further and get scammers on "safari" - a long and expensive trip where the scammer believes they'll be meeting their victim but instead just waste their time and money.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

There's a couple legendary ones on there where the guys have gotten the Nigerians to ship heavy boxes over to USA/UK/Canada and cost them hundreds of dollars in postal fees

[knodi123]

There's one where they (possibly) managed to kill the scammer. Or at least convinced him to rent a car and drive to a war-torn muslim-majority country and carry a note into a bank that said, in arabic, "mohammed rapes underage dogs". There was a This American Life about it.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/363/e...

[King-Aaron]

That was genuinely upsetting listening to how desperate the scammer was getting. These guys, sure, steal money. But... That's cruel and unusual, for any person.

[rpgmaker]

A bit much, maybe?

[knodi123]

Probably. That was certainly the tone the interviewer took in that radio show. That was my first time I've seen someone do something "for the lulz" and then be confronted by a rational adult and asked to discuss the consequences of their actions.

That's why the memory of the episode stayed with me for so long- that show is from 2008.

[spraak]

Way too much, definitely

[anexprogrammer]

I love when he manages to get a scammer to produce an artwork and mail it.

One of my favourites: http://www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm

[tajen]

In the same fashion as knodi123, I would laugh a real lot about John Boko if I didn't suspect that the scammer delegated the realization and the costs to a very poor relative.

[anexprogrammer]

You may be right. The hope, of course, is there's some form of natural justice achieved in wasting significant amounts of the scammer's time.

[roywiggins]

There's one where they are convinced to reenact the Dead Parrot Sketch which is quite something:

https://youtu.be/YM5QMKLjjm8

[thearn4]

They're actually not too bad at acting