Journalist brilliantly trolls email scammer with Jason Bourne's passport

Trolling email scammers is nothing new, in fact there's a whole lotta literature about it (not to mention Mashable's "Scamalot" series). 

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But this journalist wins the prize for the cheekiest, most ingenious response ever. 

"An email scammer kept asking for a copy of my passport so I sent him this and he is extremely upset about it," tweeted Josh Billinson. 

Attached, a passport picture of Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in the eponymous film series. The joke is even more enraging for the scammer as Bourne is not Damon's character's real name.  Read more...

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