I an Eater n00b who was almost a REAL vic, revenge time

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

On the 28th of February I got an email from a Mr. Sheikh F@hdi claiming that I had been chosen to donate 18 million dollars to charity because he had cancer and was gonna die. Note that I smelled a rat the first damn second, but the bastard played me for my generosity and kindness. For my noble effort, I keep 10% of the money in question. I was retarded enough to give the lad my REAL name, address, and cell phone no. The deal was gonna be golden for the scammer if I hadn't googled the name. I switched to angry black man mode and told the lad to go fuck a donkey. I have been spamming the address ever since with no response.
THAT was how I found out about this site. I would love to bait, but would probably mess up big time. So... Could someone please bait him for me? I'd love to see him suffer. The address is xxxxx@[email protected]

Replace @ with a. Replace 0 with "o"

Mod edit - email address removed, please supply the scam email including the full headers, that came from that email address - SP

*** BANNED *** Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 2021

Welcome

I'm sure there will be plenty of guys willing to have a pop at this lad.
Hang around a bit and read some stuff, after a while you may feel like having a little go yourself and when you do there will be loads of help here to get you through your first.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 589

Welcome

you should sign up for a mentor.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

here is the original mail i got. Note that after i caught the scam i deleted all mails between me and the mugu.

GOODWILL
From: Sheikh Fahdi - [email protected]

Assalam Allekum, My name
is Sheik fahdi . I am a
dying man who have
decided to donate
the sum of $18m
million dollars.) to you
for the good work of
the humanity and charity.Please
contact me via. Email:
[email protected]
for details informations
on this noble project of mine
Please note that I have
WILLED $18m to you by
quoting my personal
reference number
Ms/Jds/533/0018/HtrI/33ln/eg
so that i can confirm that
you actually received my
email notice to you.
I have been cheated and betrayed
in the past and i pray you won't
betray this great trust that i will
be placing on you.Looking forward to
your return email as soon as possible.
Wassalam and regards,
Sheikh Fahdi

Baiting Guru Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 2922

JFreeloader.

Somewhere on the page that you got that email from is something that will say "show full header" or "full header" or something similar- on yahoo it is in the bottom right corner below the email. It may be somewhere else on other email providers.

Click on it-it will then open a load of computer geek stuff above the email.
Copy and paste that geek stuff and edit your post above this to include the new information.

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 7103 Location: Yes

Welcome John.

While we cannot guarantee results, certainly there are those who will bait him and make him at least a little miserable. Wink

If you're interested in doing more, apply for a mentor and read that PM you received when you first signed up.

Have fun.

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Thanks for reposting, I did Google the addy in your first post before removing it, no Google results, just tried it again and several Confused

, here is the same email from 2007 with the same addy:

Long Link To The Email Repository

*** BANNED *** Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 2021

Also mate if you can stop the spamming, all you will make him do is abandon that email addy which makes you request here a bit pointless, it takes a lad 3 minutes to open a new email account.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

so no baits for mr sick guy. That's alright. I do want to bait though.
GOD I hate scammers. How do I go about with getting a mentor?

Also, I'd love to see who can guess where I got my username from.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:59 pm

Professor Google saaaays: "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:00 pm

You can request a mentor here:
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=122306

Then just read the stickies in the "Help hints and tips" forum until your request is met.

B

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

will get on finding a mentor right away

man, i was hoping someone would guess it WITHOUT google, lol.

*** BANNED *** Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 2021

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:59 pm

Welcome to Eater Jonathan. I see that most of your questions have been answered. Very Happy

JonathanFreeloader wrote:

so no baits for mr sick guy. That's alright. I do want to bait though.

No one said that they wouldn't bait your lad. Please reference JMR's post:

Quote:

While we cannot guarantee results, certainly there are those who will bait him and make him at least a little miserable. Wink

It sounds to me like your lad is in for some fun. Laughing

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:34 am

Quote:

It sounds to me like your lad is in for some fun

He is ..

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:58 am

That's the basic idea of scammers. People fall for it often. For whatever reason. Money, love, fear .. you name it. Not a few, but a couple of billions $$ worth each year... All kinds of victims .. Are you sure your next of kin isn't involved with a scumbag like this?

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:47 am

@whytie, there are many reasons that people fall for scams - too numerous for me to list here, but greed and naivety are two of the top ten. Scammers know exactly how to psychologically work their victims, and they know what buttons to push.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 36

whytie wrote:

How did you manage to nearly fall for this?

Its the law of large numbers. Statistically speaking, even very rare events are likely to occur if you have a large enough sample. In other words, they just keep sending out emails until someone, for whatever reason, responds to their messages.

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:26 am

Another "Arabian Nights" adventure.

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:46 am

If there were nobody falling for these scams the scammers would soon stop wasting their time.

The fact that somebody has been scammed does not automatically suggest they are greedy, stupid, naive or anything else you may wish to call them.

As suggested already thousands of these emails will go out, of those emails they may only get 1% reply, of that 1% half may go for a week or so before realising, half again may go a few weeeks.

Unfortunately there are still some people left who do not twig that it's a scam and start to pay money.

Once the first fee is paid the chance of getting a second fee increases as the vic starts to throw good money after bad.

Often the vic will never realise, they can become so believing of their scammer and often thank them for their help.

Eventually a vic will either run out of money or realise that the big pay day isn't coming.

Thats when the recovery scam comes in to clean up anything left.

Scam victims can be doctors, lawyers, engineers or the unemployed, trying to stereotype victims would be much the same as sterotyping a gay person, sometimes they will believe the scam completely, regardless of how much media attention these scams get

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:38 am

You know I prefer listening to Maurice Chaves on VCPR as those begathons can be a bit distracting from Pressing Issues

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:04 pm

I do believe the OP specifically stated that he almost fell for it because he thought he was really helping a charity. That is a very noble idea, not greedy or otherwise "criminal." Part of the reason that scams are still around, is because the people who *do* fall for them are often afraid to speak out - and the rest of society blames them for being a victim. Mad

Not quite a Newb Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 34

ahahaha.

im baiting the very same guy atm Smile

yeah he has pictures of some poor bloke hooked up to life support and drips etc.

Preety convincing tbh...if i hadnt read up on here i would probs have said real tbh...

thanks to Eater eh? Twisted Evil

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

bait him reeeeal good hehe, btw i got a new lad i may start to bait myself. Also, could you post the bait here on Eater?

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

Its funny after how F@hdi never tried to reassure me of it not being a scam after I (under my real name) got suspiscious and told him off (I wasn't THAT rude to him). You'd think the mugu would try his hardest to chop the dollar eh? BTW. I lol @ all the letters and baits on here.

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