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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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* ''[[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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* [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]] ==
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