You get this message with the subject line, “Your Total Awarded Lump Sum†and there’s no doubt it’s a pathetic phishing ploy by some internet café loser in either Nigeria, Hong Kong, UK, Estonia, or China who’s at it like it’s the new national pastime. You are just ITCHIN’ to check said café dumb***, but you can’t, since it would both let them know that yer addy was a good’un and profit via trading it for cash/other digi-resources. NO. You have to get downright sneaky on that ass. The best revenge involves a blend of both profiteering and harassment to the effect that you’ve made a shite-load of cash off these foolitos by having the Dragon chase and eat its’ own tail by getting abso-faba-lutely clowned in public with nary a clue that generally malevolent buffoonery has been launched in their direction. Lists of scammers can be sold to spammers (and vice-versa), ridiculous biz-opps and affiliate-ships can be pimped, and, depending on your general level of internet mayhem production, offensive humor and other adult concerns can be shot their way. It all depends on your level of comfort as well. Although I’d recommend you stay well within the legal striking range so as to not land yourself in hot water. If you have a middlin’ - to – good email depot (I use Gmail™ myself), you should be able to create a filter in your inbox that both gives you the ACTUAL scammer addy and automatically dump right to the trash bin in the case of an attempted second contact. Now, go get yerself an anonymous email account over at http://noipmail.com (the BEST free provider in the business – INCREDIBLE), and be sure to down load the Anonymail-PRO mail client software (amazing stuff). Although you can also work through both their web mail client or your Outlook client, you’ll want to keep it all together on your desktop for that extra comfort (at least that’s what I like to do. Keeps me sane and focused). Go over all details and instructions, since yer gonna wanna nail as many of those scammin’ bastards as you can, CORRECTLY. Next, whether you cull them from your multiple email depots, solicit them from friends/family/forums/business communities/etc., there’ll be more than enough scammer addys to go around. At the point when they’re red-hot, you gotta hit’em up - A.F.A.P. – since most scammers dispose of addys like graceless, daily changes of underwear (in the case of spammers, they tend to hold onto them a little longer), but the Anonymail-PRO mail client will tell you just which ones are ripe for protracted commercial carpet-bombing as the client allows 5000 emails daily (in sessions of 10 each). I recommend a 5 – 7 day campaign for each list you can speedily pump out which could net you an average of about 1 – 3% conversion rates translating to shooting stupid in a barrel and accessing daily cash to your secure e-biz cash depot. From my experience with these mails, I can detect them right from the subject line with their numerous grammatical errors, implausible requests, and threats that are unenforceable because of facts that I know to be true in my own personal life. Which mark these scammers as not the sharpest marbles in the jar. The completion of your anti-scamarama ring of ass-crisping profit-clowning is in your friendly neighborhood virtual email inbox. SO Web 2.0, Mailinator (and, uh, do yerself a favor and make Google™ your friend if yer not already overrun and pawned like myself) will let you have as many disposable email addresses as you want. In fact, you ain’t even gotta tell’em yer comin’ – just make something up and it’s off to the races. The 2.0 angle involves a code widget with portability to anywhere you can insert coding - websites, forums, blogs….ANYWHERE! Since the widget makes these mails accessible to anyone, you can give a good laugh to your traffic as well as help create a feedback loop of scammers attempting to scam other scammers . The only good scammer is a stone-cold BROKE one (which is why some of this is happening in the first place – other, more malevolent activities are pulled off by professional criminal hackers who are busy going after profit-laden corporations), and this Jedi force-blast is directed at the dumbass bunch. Please profit from your new-found knowledge and feel free to rob them of their time, effort, & money.