TIL there are baiters who tries to scam internet scammers

Blogged by a user (Daveybj) on reddit:

About 4 years ago I learned of a website dedicated to trying to wipe out the internet 419 scammers. After joining the site I set about learning as much as possible about the scammers and how they operate. Our primarily objective as baiters is to waste their time emailing with us. We feel that any time wasted on us is less time they have to scam a potential victim. As a bonus it also eats’ into their internet time at the café and therefore into their funds. When talking to each other we call these scammers ‘lads’, romance scammers are known as Vlads as most are from Eastern Europe. We take on different roles as baiters depending on the scammers and what his particular ‘script’ might be. We do not involve innocent third parties or attempt to have the scammers send us money. I’ve baited them as a retired porn star, a Redneck Farmer, an Art Dealer, a Cat, a 12y/o disabled girl, and a dead person. It’s remarkable how they are willing to email anyone or anything that they hope to make a buck or two off. Their scam’s include the Prince who needs his money out of the country, the very pretty young lady who is in a refugee camp and just needs $ to leave so she can come and have your baby, the mysterious trunk box full of $$ but we need your cash to make a key and so on. We have many tools at our disposal as baiters including the ability to have their bank accounts shut down. They really hate this  but it’s really easy to do and unbelievably it’s easy to do multiple times to the same lad! One of our favourite things to do is send our ‘lads’ on ‘safari. This involves convincing our lad that huge sums of money are waiting for him if he would only just go to another country to pick it up. They usually borrow from friends or family to finance the trip and rarely do they think to bring enough to return home because of the riches they will pick up. The emails you receive from one of the lads once they are good and truly stranded in another country are a thing of beauty. Any questions?"

He works for http://www.419eater.com/index.php
An sample of 419eater's work: http://www.419eater.com/html/bigman.htm (very fascinating read)