Scam baiting is the practice of pretending interest in a fraudulent scheme in order to influence a scammer in many possible ways. The purpose of scam baiting might be to waste the scammers’ time, embarrass them, cause them to reveal confidential information which can be passed on to legal authorities in the hope that they will be prosecuted, or simply to amuse the baiter. Scam baiting emerged in response to e-mail based frauds such as the common Nigerian 419 scam. Several websites publish transcripts of correspondences between baiters and scammers. Many scam baiters will also send the scam mail senders to a Western Union office to collect the supposedly sent money and get them to book hotels for them. A few scam baiters have also succeeded in receiving cash from the fraudsters. Other techniques includes, giving the scammer a long, silly questionnaire to fill out filling up their inboxes with large attachments making Nigerian scam mailers call the baiters back on the telephone, in order to waste their time and money hacking into the scammers email accounts in order to find their victims addresses.