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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:27 pm

I've had a check bait going where I was able to milk a second check off of them using the "you misspelled my name and the bank wouldn't take the check" modality. I didn't think I could get away with that one again, so I told them the check was accepted.

After that I got orders to transfer the money to an account in Japan (which was immediately forwarded to Alan). I hemmed and hawed for a bit, saying that I "didn't feel like going to the bank today". Of course, the lad who wanted the money in Japan didn't like it, and told me it had to be done "today".

I then responded to the first lad, that is, the one who "hired" me. I voiced my suspicions about his customer.

I've now gotten this:

Quote:

Hello Mr. J0ck Str4p,

I dont want you to go on with the other account. I want you to make the payment in the following other. When contacted by the customer let him know that i have giving you instruction.

I want you to remit the sum of $30,000 to 6 of our employee in Uk via western Union money transfer.

Note I am giving you an extra $5,000 now for your hard work and to compensate you for the charges from the western union money transfer office. I want you to know that you must do this today though. For the company depends on this.

You are hereby informed to contact only me via this email and not to communicate with Mr. Brian Br00ke for now until it is clear that the hacking of my email is not from his firm.

You are to strictly do as i tell you...Make sure you send the payment today and then tommorow i will tell you how to send the remaining.

I want you to send the funds to the following names below in UK.

(this info snipped)

After you have done this through western union money transfer you are to send to me the senders full name and address( if you are not the sender ), control numbers, security question and security answer to all the money send by you to our employee in UK.

It will be preferable to use the same security question and answer for all of them.

You are to send $53,794 to my account in Japan . The account Information is below:

(snipped)

After you have done this send to me the scan copy of the payment slip.

The other customer is making payment of $250,767 so be brisk about this i want everything done today. This is why i am giving you an additional $5,000.
I shall await your immediate response.

NOTE: YOU ARE NOT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE CUSTOMER OUR COMPANY FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. DONT RESPOND TO HIS EMAIL ANYMORE!!!

Best Regards,
Mr. Fang L33

I have NOT introduced the dollar chop modality. I haven't invented fictional characters who are trying to horn in on this, nor have I even mentioned hacking.

I'd like to think that Alan somehow got the account closed down, and that this guy is suspecting that one of his accomplices was trying to double cross him.

Meantime, I know what my next move will be. I'm going to send him six scans of WU payment slips. The trouble is, is that all of them will be corrupted JPEGs that he can't open. Twisted Evil

I love check baiting........and this is another reason why!

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:31 pm

BK, you are sooooo cruel! Laughing

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:30 pm

I love cheque baiting as well... my character is in the far north of Canada (i.e. Iqaluit, Nunavut), which ultimately drives them nuts, as it takes quite a while to arrive by mail or courier. My latest pet sent a cheque via UPS from the states (I wonder what THAT cost him) back on April 20, and the tracking shows it having not arrived yet.

I generally use the common P.O. Box address of the members of their provincial legislature (there are no regular mail addresses in Iqaluit to my knowledge), so everything sent traceable gets signed for.

Then the games begin....... I had one that wanted me to go to Western Union to send the funds only to find out that the closest one was over 1000 miles away and I had to travel via chartered bush plane, stay in a hotel for a night and then fly back. The problem was that my character is extremely wealthy and only the best hotel/room will do. Ditto for the restaurants, hookers, limos, etc., all of which had to be paid out of my share (after taxes, of course). Add to this the fact that because of my character's importance, I must be accompanied on all trips by an armed bodyguard, therefore doubling all of the expenses. I had it to a point that when you factored in the taxes I had to pay on my share, it wound up taking up around 95% of a $100,000 cheque.

I convinced the mugu to let me queue up a few payments and do them all in one trip in order to spread the costs over more payments, making it more cost effective.

I got four large cheques out of the sucker before he freaked.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:05 pm

Quote:

DONT RESPOND TO HIS EMAIL ANYMORE!!!

If you mis-read this, like I did, and put in the extra 'T' you get :
DONT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL ANYMORE!!!

so when you don't reply, he'll ask what is going on, and you say
"Well, you told me not to reply to your e-mail?"

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:01 pm

Quote:

You are hereby informed to contact only me via this email and not to communicate with Mr. Brian Br00ke for now until it is clear that the hacking of my email is not from his firm.

Does he think he's really been compromised or is he just dumping "the client?"

I really wish there was some way to know if/when the bank accounts actually get shut down. That might be one explanation.

Anyhow, GOOD JOB, Mr. B! Very Happy

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 289

What exactly is Check Baiting?

Elite Baiter Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1731

@acerbus80

There is a nice tutorial on check baiting here.

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=134337

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:24 pm

@ slootie: I wish I knew what was really going on at their end.

I came up with another idea. The banks in Japan will refuse the money, and return it to my bank. That'll wind them up as that they've never heard that excuse before. Hopefully it will make them chase down a problem that doesn't exist.

I'll break that news to them either tomorrow or the next day.

Right now it's time for corrupted JPEGs. That will be enough aggravation for them for one day.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:09 pm

may I ask what the dollar chopped modality is ? I'm a newbie...

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:47 am

^^^ That's where you invent a fake lad who somehow got the information, and swooped in to take the money. When I've used it, I've gone silent on the real lad for a couple of days. Then, after their repeated emails, I write back and tell them "your executive assistant (make up name) contacted me, and told me to send the payment to him, so I did."

They don't like hearing that news.

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:53 am

^^^
And they like it even less if you follow up with an email from a fake scammer account and taunt them. Laughing

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 4:46 am

This just in.

From lad #2, who's being dumped....or does he not yet know it?

Quote:

Did you get the wire transfer done as of now, update needed for record purpose and to send the next payment which you are due for 191,000.00 usd

Best Regards,

Br!an Br00ke.

And, I sent this to lad #1, my "boss".

Quote:

Dear Mr F4ng,

I am very sorry that it took me until now in order to send you this.

I decided that it would attract suspicion if I did all the Western Union payments from the same place, so I made them from six different outlets. This was very time-consuming but I figured that you didn't want the Western Union people to think that I was up to something fishy. So, therefore, I did it this way.

The bank transfers have also been made.

I am attaching scans of all the payment slips.

regards,

J0ck Str4p

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:29 am

A recent mugu (in the Racist Lad thread) had his dollar chopped by two Nigerians and received taunting emails plus angry messages from me wanting to know what was happening.

But no replies of any kind... it's not like them to be so meek, is it?

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:26 pm

While I slept, these rolled in:

Quote:

Hello J0ck Str4p,

I am writing to inform you that the attached copy couldn't be downloaded. You are to send the attached copy of the Bank transfer seperately and then send the western union to me in writing.

For immediate realease of the funds do send to me the six western union payment information as writing below:

Full Name of Reciever:

Senders Full Name:
Senders Address:
Security Question:
Security Answer:
Mtcn Number:

Note: Send the attached copy of bank transfer and the western union write ups in different emails to me.

Keep all transaction between us private for security reasons. Let me know every negiotation between you and the customer. Ask for my permittion before disclosing any information to him. Do it now.

Best Regards,
Mr. F4ng L33.

Quote:

Hello Mr. J0ck Str4p,

This is a matter of urgency. I have been trying to call you for a long time now. You will have to handle this matter urgently. I need a phone number from you which i can be able to reach you 24/7 of the day.

The scanned copies are corrupt. I will need you to send to me the six (6) western union information in a written text as below:

RECIEVERS NAME:
SENDERS NAME:
LOCATION WHERE MONEY IS SENT( CITY AND STATE):
MONEY CONTROL NUMBER (MTCN):
SECURITY QUESTION AND ANSWER:

THEN SEND TO ME THE SCANNED COPY OF THE BANK TRANSFER IN ANOTHER EMAIL.

The company will need to issue out payment immediately. I want you to know also that the second payment by our customer will be done by monday only and only if you send every thing asked by you today.

NOTE: REMEMBER TO KEEP THIS TRANSACTION PRIVATE FOR SECURITY PURPOSES.

Best Regards,
Mr. F4ng L33.

I'll write back, but maybe not today. Or maybe not until Monday. Laughing

EDITED TO ADD: He also called my K7 number. He's getting desperate.

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:14 pm

"....not until Monday!" HAHAHAHAHAHA! Laughing

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:28 pm

Next Monday is a Bank Holiday here in UKland and I'm sure it is a national holiday wherever your character is based. Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:18 pm

^^^ Is it? Well that's not my problem! Laughing

I'm now trying to think of a reason why I can't write today.

I could claim that some vandals cut the network cables that serve our office, though I may re-use another excuse: some water rats crawled into the network junction box and chewed up some cables, thus knocking out our phone service as well as our Internet.

Meanwhile, did you know that WU has a policy that if the money isn't claimed in 72 hours, that it goes back to the sender? I won't know about that until Monday, after I lecture them about not being able to open the files.

Not only that, Japan's Ministry of Financial Oversight (MOFO) might be getting involved as far as the bank-to-bank transfers go. They may want a letter certifying that the money is not connected with laundering, drug trafficking, gunrunning, terrorism.

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