Step 2: Plant Your Email Address

Scammers use the Internet to harvest email addresses. They spend time copying addresses from web-page forums, guest books, blogs, etc. Many of them even mark their territory. We'll concentrate on these.

Many scammers who steal addresses from guest books will have an entry into the guest book themselves. Some common signatures they use are 'mugu' and 'guyman'. We'll use this knowledge to trap them in their own game.

DO THIS:
Go to Google.com.
Run this search: guestbook mugu guyman -"no longer active"
Visit as many of these guestbooks as you can.
Leave a polite message and your new email address in each guestbook.

At this point you will begin receiving scammer emails. You haven't invited anyone to write to you, so every email you get will be a scam or spam. There will be lots of sob-stories about folks who need your help moving a million dollars out of the country, or job offers asking you to be the middle man in banking transactions.

You can respond to them yourself, stringing the scammers along by feigning ignorance. Or you can give them false information, then apologize and give them more. Finally you can tell them to get a real job, or preach to them, or make them feel guilty. It's really up to you.

***Just remember NOT to give them identifying information about yourself or your loved ones.
***NEVER call a scammer unless you really know what you are doing. Some of them are on cell-phone systems that charge the caller big $ (similar to 900 numbers).

If you really want to harass the enemy, press on to Step 3.
Now that your antiscammer email machine is started, lets add some power features!
Step 3 will discuss a method of making your email auto-respond to enemy communications.