WARNING
Please remember these people are CRIMINALS and should be treated as such.
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES must you enter into any communications with these people unless you feel you are adequately prepared to deal with them.
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES give them ANY real information about yourself.
The tips below are for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. MattA cannot be held responsible for what you decide to do with the information.
If you have visited any of the other popular scambaiting websites, you have probably read this all before. I will not bore you by going in depth in these general tips;
Prepare your scambaiting personna before you start the scambait (name, address, phone, etc.) - this will prevent you from making mistakes that will give you away later to the scammer.
Use a free email account for your scambaiting - Yahoo, gmail, Hotmail, Live.com, etc.
Don't give scammer any real information - for obvious reasons...
Address Information - I use a fake address nearby (city that is close by), just in case they trace my IP Address.
Phone Information - Do not give them your home or work number! Use k7.net (for messages) or a cell phone - I use a number that always rings, then make some excuse why I never answer (at work, store, etc.).
Make a fake ID to use - it doesn't have to be perfect - a scammer doesn't know what a real ID looks like. The scammer will almost always ask for an ID - if you don't send them one the bait may be over. ***Note*** Many scambaiters will warn against this - that you are helping a scammer by giving him a fake ID to use. It's your choice - you may want to use a fake name in the ID that any westerner would recognize as fake (Harry Buttkrack, Phil McCrakin, Anita Spermbath, etc.).
Flight Schedules - when you are trying to convince a scammer that you are traveling to his country, you can use Orbitz or Travelocity for the flight details.
Most scambaiters suggest setting up a "catcher" account to receive scam emails, and a "baiter" account to carry on the bait. This is sound advice, but not always necessary - you can actually copy a scam email you find on the web or bulletin board, and paste it to a new email to "reply" to a scammer. They send out so many emails, they will never know that they never actually sent an email to you.
Scambait with your eyes wide open - remember, these are criminals you are dealing with and everything that comes from their mouth is most likely a lie. In the course of the scambait, you will be cussed out, issued death threats, voodoo curses, etc. Scambaiting is not for the Faint-of-Heart..
Also for Tech support scams browse the rest of the site for numbers and use a soft phone (firertc etc) and follow the above tips (eg. Prepare fake personal info (use fakeadressgenarator)).