Active Countermeasures for Email Fraud. (arXiv:2210.15043v1 [cs.CR])

As a major component of online crime, email-based fraud is a threat that
causes substantial economic losses every year. To counteract these scammers,
volunteers called scam-baiters play the roles of victims, reply to scammers,
and try to waste their time and attention with long and unproductive
conversations. To curb email fraud and magnify the effectiveness of
scam-baiting, we developed and deployed an expandable scam-baiting mailserver
that can conduct scam-baiting activities automatically. We implemented three
reply strategies using three different models …

countermeasures email email fraud fraud