04/11/10 Linkaholic

04/11/10 Linkaholic

04/11/10 | by zveriu | Categories: General, Fun, Language

I want to present few nice sites which might be interesting for you. At least I enjoyed finding them out and getting information about them.

Welcome to the world of Scambaiting - 419eater.com

From wiki: “419eater.com is a scam baiting website which focuses on advance-fee fraud. The name 419 comes from “419 fraud", another name for advance fee fraud, and itself derived from the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. The website founder, Michael Berry, goes by the alias Shiver Metimbers. The 419 Eater forum has over 24,000 registered accounts.”

The people on this forum are taking it as a real-life role-playing-game. They have something like medals on how many fake-banks they “crashed", flags of countries where they “smashed” a scammer, etc.

If you like this kind of long and ad-hoc scenario games, this is the place to try. If not, even just simply browsing the forum is a fun :). BTW, on this site you can find almost any phrase which you would find in the emails from the Spam/Junk folder.

Related to this type of activity is the Project Honeypot. More on computer-related honeypots.

Like surfing? What about Couch-Surfing?

From wiki: “The CouchSurfing Project is the largest hospitality exchange network, with over 1.75 million members in 237 countries and territories.[1] According to Alexa it is currently the most visited hospitality service on the Internet, averaging around 40 million daily page views July-December 2009″

Interested? CouchSurfing FAQ will get you started :) - prepare your backpacks!

PS: though CouchSurfing might be fun, free and exciting, NEVER forget the common-sense for personal privacy and security, just to avoid so called (and over-hyped) CouchSurfing horror stories

(thanks to Veronica to throw some like on existence of such project)

Comments, Pingbacks:

Comment from: Paulina Gómez [Visitor] · http://www.paulinagomez.com
I was looking for polyglot blogs, ended up here, and you also recommend CouchSurfing!

It really rocks, and like you say, using common sense and having a good look to the profiles before meeting/hosting/surfing will most likely save you for any uncomfortable situation!
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Comment from: zveriu [Member] · http://www.andreicostin.com
@Paulina Gómez:

Hey Paulina,

I am glad you liked these posts :). I checked your page and it is nice to see you enjoy travelling and languages.

Though I don't have too much time for my polyglotism part of the blog (and neither as much as time for sharing travel stories which I have enough), perhaps one day I will give them more attention.

Keep in touch and good luck in your projects and travels. Keep coming back to the blog :)
PermalinkPermalink 04/30/10 @ 13:08

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