Do Lads think we have ADD?

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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:14 am

I've noticed through the years of baiting that many Lads seem not to trust a maga's memory.

Case in point; if you look at the thread I opened on my recent cancer-scam Lads, you'll note that they invariably spell everyone's name out, in full, several times in each message.

Has anyone else noticed that feature?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:22 am

It could well be a sign of 'cut and paste' syndrome, where they are just adjusting their scripts and adding your name, once they have it copied it is just a matter of ctrl+v to insert it. You could try a test and make a couple of letter changes to your name and see if it comes back in the next letter as your original name or the new altered one.

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:33 am

It's not my name that gets repeated; it's the other Lad personae. For example:

Quote:

Mr. Malcolm, assist me by working very fast with Mr. and his boss ,... Once again please help me by working very fast with Mr. and his boss of UBS Bank because I don�t know what I will tell my children if my wife , dies this will be a very big problem to me if it happened

All those names have been used in previous messages (two of them I've written to).

It reminds me of bad exposition in films and books.

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:13 pm

I wonder whether it is their way of being able to keep themselves reminded of all the characters involved without having to trawl back through all the previous mails.

It could be that they vary scripts over time and need an easy way to remind themselves of which variation they are using for any particular victim. I think I do something similar in may baiting mails. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:04 pm

^^^^ very small tip of the day.

When replying to a Lad try and make sure that previous correspondence isn't tagged onto to the bottom ... let him go and look for previous names and facts without just scrolling down.

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:12 pm

^^^I do the same with my replies, except the first one. I particularly like to do it when they insist on including all the email exchanges to date in each reply.

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:15 pm

It's also fun to change the subject line, so they can't just go find the one that matches Twisted Evil

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:51 pm

I think they put the names in to make their emails look more "real". If there are several names in it to distract a potential victim, it is easier not to notice what, when stripped down to the facts, is an obvious scam.

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:14 pm

I think my mugus all believe I have ADD - I frequently bait a whole crowd at once, and send the whole lot a generic response to each e-mail they send me. Since I usually do not bother to read their e-mails, my responses are, shall we say, a bit irrelevant?

Bruin

Master Baiter Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 170

@ Bruin:

I don't think they care if your replies are a bit.... odd...

All they are looking for are things like MTCN, BANK ACCOUNT, that sort of thing....

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