Wasting the time of email scammers

The average person deals with an incredible amount of email throughout their workday and having to deal with email spam and scammers can add further frustration to the experience. According to Engadget, a company called Netsafe has created a service named ‘Re: scam’ that embraces the spirit of nagging emails by replying to scammers automatically to waste as much of their time as possible.

Driven by multiple bots that each have their own character persona, scammers will be treated to endless replies filled with seemingly benign questions and sometimes hilarious stories. Representatives from the company claim that they have handled up to 1,000 concurrent email exchanges at one point and their record sits at 20 replies.