Defrauding a scammer, legal yes/ no?

419 Scam – The dead foreigner scam - The scammers claim to be a lawyer or bank employee based in Nigeria or in Lome (the capital Togo, a country located between Ghana and Benin in West Africa). The storyline is adapted to other countries too (Hong Kong, Korea, UK, Belgium). The conmen ask for help in defrauding their government out of an inheritance.
@frodloo (424)
Indonesia
February 10, 2007 3:27am CST
This question relates to the Nigerian 419 scam. I will call this Scaming the Scammer. If i were to scam one of these Nigerians by sending them a fake check, having them cash it, then having them wire my money, i`m breaking any laws. i quess it would involve creating a fake check, mailing it into Nigerian scammer try to cash it, then having the Nigerian scammer wire my money back to USA. i`m curious if the USA would arrest and prosecute me for anything. Don`t trust any image of passports, bank documents, government certificates, etc.presented to you by the scammers.these all are fakes.
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iwyrobi
@iwyrobi (282)
• Indonesia
10 Feb 07
to much waste of time, just ignore that scammer, put their mail to the junk mail. finish. or if you can detect the isp, just contact the isp and tell their isp is used for abuse.