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I hate scammers. People who call you pretending to be the "IRS" and claiming that you're about to be arrested for unpaid taxes. Sick bastards who make money ripping off (mostly elderly) people.
One time I started getting those phone calls. I went down to the customer service department where I worked, which still had a fax machine, stuck a blank piece of paper in, dialed the scammers number, set retry x100, and hit send.
I called them back an hour later to see if they were getting the message and the guy gave me an earful. I politely explained that every second of his time that I wasted was one less second he got to spend ripping someone else off. He hung up on me but I kept calling back until they finally disconnected that number.
Totally worth it. Fuck scammers.
Man I remember the fax bomb. Either huge numbers of black pages to burn through the recipients' ink toner, or two bits of A4 taped together neatly to form an infinite loop.
The latter was stopped when sending machines got a buffer that images were stored in before they were sent (as opposed to the OG fax machines that dialled the recipient and "live streamed" the faces by scanning and sending at 9600 baud or whatever the handshake was at), and most buffers threw an error when they were full (usually because the sender was taking the piss) and never sent. Shame.
You would enjoy 419eater.com
And Kitboga. I think I’ve seen nearly every video on “More Kitboga”.