More 419 Baiting

by on September 28, 2008 · 9 comments

Incidentally, I’ve been perusing 419eaters.com, and it’s full of comedy gold. I think this one might be my favorite:


Dead Parrot sketch – Scammer style! from 419eater.com on Vimeo.

First the guy got the scammer to carve a bust of his own head. Then he claimed an African squirrel had eaten a hole through the bust, so he next got him to perform the famous Monty Python dead parrot sketch and ship him a DVD of the video. Needless to say he didn’t get the $25,000 he was promised. This story of a scammer they got to make a high-quality (if heavily accented) audiobook of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (twice, in fact, after the first one didn’t meet his standards) is hilarious as well.

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