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I know I’ve got better things to do. But I have whiled away several minutes having a good laugh browsing 419eater.com, a site dedicated to revenge against email scammers.

The author has developed ruses even more absurd than the scammers to basically scam them back. Here’s the narrative of his latest, which culminates in this YouTube: two accomplices of the scammer re-enacting the Dead Parrot Sketch. (I won’t go into the role of a mouse, squirrel and head carving along the way). Hat tip: Boing Boing

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