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'''Scam baiting sites'''
* [http://www.419eater.com/ 419Eater]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015072259/http://sweetchillisauce.com/nigeria.html Sweet Chilli Sauce]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyebQOUn0YI I Go Chop Your Dollar] is a taunting song from the perspective of the perpetrator of such a scam, and even includes the line "419 is just a game".
** Just to clarify, a "dollarchop" is a term used by scammers to describe the practice of scammer #1 picking up the money a victim had sent sent to scammer #2, without #1 being in on the deal. In other words, that song is actually a scammer taunting other scammers.
* The song by [[MC Frontalot]] in the page quote. See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20140802045416/http://frontalot.com/index.php/content.php?page=lyrics&lyricid=19 there].
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Used in a ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strip. Andy is wise to the scam, Roger not so much.
* Ratbert [//dilbert.com/strip/2001-05-02 fell for one] in a ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip. Of course, since the banking information he provided was "My bank is a tube sock that fell behind the dryer", the man on the other end of the scheme couldn't steal any money from him.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Least I Could Do]]'': Rayne gets an e-mail with this sort of scam in [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090225 this strip] and decides to go to Nigeria to meet his princess and claim his inheritance.
* ''[[User Friendly]]'': Pitr receives a 419 scam e-mail. He uses his wits and his hacking skills to screw the scammer over.
** Alien [https://web.archive.org/web/20190504123837/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051202 version].
** 419 Old Style: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20190502234052/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060205 The Telegram That Convinced Western Union To Pack It In]".
* ''[[Wally and Osborne]]'' briefly references this [http://wallyandosborne.com/2005/07/29/the-internet-spam here.]
* ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'' in its usual [[Dungeon Punk]] style had Calamitus [http://rustyandco.com/comic/critical-missives-25/ scammed by one such letter] in [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|Critical Missives]] after he began to look like a genuine threat rather than a comically incompetent goofball.
* ''[[xkcd]]'' takes the 419 scam into [[Cloudcuckoolander]] territory in [http://xkcd.com/1777/ strip #1777].
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' in "[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/03/28/im-sure-it-will-be-fine I’m Sure It Will Be Fine]". [[The Rant]] says it's based on the content of a real scam mail they received.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* ''[[College Humor]]'' did a sketch with the twist being that the Nigerian prince funds really were legit, only for the email to be deleted by a jaded college student!
* ''[http://web.me.com/normsherman/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html The Drabblecast]'' hosts the annual Nigerian Scam Spam Contest, the winning one gets emailed out to unsuspecting members of the general public.
* [http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm Practically] [http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10 every] scambaiting [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103053547/http://www.419hell.com/ site] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120727082204/http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=15 out there] with a publishing section counts as this.
* ''Clients From Hell'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20160917010159/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/137622994352/i-received-an-email-from-a-potential-client-ive one] in a rather imaginative and surprising form. Still, "I declined this job because of my “No Nigerian Prince Phishing Scams” policy."
* In the ''[[SCP Foundation]]'', this is on the [[Long List]] of [https://web.archive.org/web/20220320105733/https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/adult:the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-found/noredirect/true things Dr. Bright] is not allowed to do. Apparently, he once trolled the Church of the Broken God by sending an email saying he was a sentient computer who needed $100,000 to help combat the Sarkites. They fell for it, and were ''very'' angry once they found out they'd been had. The O5 Council reprimanded Bright, although they have yet to reimburse the Church of the Broken God.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The first ''[[Futurama]]'' feature film, ''Bender's Big Score'', centres on a group of scammers who con the Planet Express business and then use that as a base to scam the whole of Earth. [[Only Sane Man|Hermes]] is onto them from the start, but just about every other character falls for it at least once. Eventually {{spoiler|the scammers are defeated by Bender, who claims he's been working the long con all along.}}
* The Zigerions in ''[[Rick and Morty]]''. [[Meaningful Name|If their name isn't an indication]], they are a whole alien race [[Planet of Hats| whose hat]] is this sort of scam. Their scheme in the episode is to con Rick out of his Concentrated Dark Matter formula. Still, as evil as they are, [[Magnificent Bastard| they can't out-evil Rick]], who tricks them into stealing a rather ''explosive'' formula [[Hoist by His Own Petard| that destroys their ship.]]
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