Review the scambaiting websites:

Scam-O-Rama

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WhatsTheBloodyPoint

the first thing that I am itching to mention is that the websites are not user-friendly at all!

they are very difficult to read and follow.

they try to inform people on recent scams  and possibly contact scammers pretending to be clueless to keep them busy or scam them back!

I actually am not sure how much time, a playing victim reply can take from scammer..they are sending hundreds of copies of the same email to different people. and answering an email from a mugu shouldn't take them long.

 I think these websites can be helpful to inform users and show the scammers that the new scam is also known widely, if updated by newest scams of the day.

taking money from scammers, could be still ethical(or at least not as bad!), if there was a way to identify previous victims and pay their money back from it.

but when scamming back, we don't actually know if this particular scammer has ever succeeded to scam anyone yet. punishing him with scambaiting, will be punishing someone just because of attempting to do something and the method of punishment is still questionable.

I think I dont agree with scambaiting to stop scams, I would suggest a more organised attempts to find and stop them using legal methods.