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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:48 am

You know for an absolute fact that a WU M T C N consists of 10 digits.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

You snigger when finding that a hit man has emailed you , instead of being scared.
You and hubby regularly use the term 100% risky free when something appears dodgy.
Nobody in the house bats an eyelid when they find you chewing a fake W u receipt or dooking it in the sink

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:14 am

You sign of your emails to friends with God Bless.

You say or write "This may come to you as a surprise..."

You start your emails with "My Dearest One."

You have a story or back story ready and you don't need one - it's a real life event.

You are up at 3:00 a.m. responding to emails in your baiting accounts.

You go to bed and work your baits over in your mind when you should be sleeping.

You look for troll like or dodgy behavior in people around you.

You start a sentence with "Please, I am begging you..."

You are a member of Eater. Wink

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:42 am

You recognize wallpaper patterns that you've seen lining trunkboxes

You arrive at an airport and read the cardboard signs that people hold in arrivals, looking for one with a baiter's character name on it.

I too get puzzled looks when I use the word 'modalities' in conversation. Smile

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:37 am

dr stephen williams wrote:

If you have ... two genders.

... at least two Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:46 am

Your boss uses "modalities" in an email and you spit coffee all over your keyboard.

You see "419" in a phone number and assume it's someone's baitphone.

Master Baiter Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 152

...you don't bother using official tax forms, because you make your own forms.

...you never show up for meetings, because you missed the flight, your tickets were stolen, you were arrested by customs, etc...

...you had more pyramids built than the pharaos.

...it's always somebody else's fault. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:52 am

This is the fifth/sixth "You know your a baiter when..." thread you've posted in. Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

You compare the wonderful, speedy, helpful Parcel Force to L.O.S.T

( All adjectives used above were sarcastic )

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:34 pm

You send your new boyfriend or girlfriend an ASEM with attractive pictures attached and from a new Gmail address to test their faithfulness and personal story.

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:18 pm

SlapHappy wrote:

...
Your cat has to bite your leg to get food and water.
You are checking your baiting accounts before the coffee is even ready...
Smile

My kitties are looking at me right now, the coffee is still dripping and I've already checked three baitboxes. Laughing

You think about getting your camera out when you see gas for $4.19/gallon.
You sign off on a company email with a baiting character's name.
You reply to all two minutes after your boss distributes a scammer charity email with the ten reasons why its a fake.
You ask a "cow-orker" if the random request he sent to you was an "ASEM".
You paid for a faster internet connection so that you can upload huge files to the scammers.
Your real life minister brags about having baptized 4 new members and you think to yourself "Pffffffftttt".

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

^^^ You regularly photoshop extra fingers into pictures of people. Laughing

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:12 pm

.. you have your own church

..you're automatically supicious of anyone claiming to be a barrister

..you think nothing of sending out a 20 page grant application form that has to be completed by hand

..you're not an IT nerd (sorry IT nerds everywhere Wink

) and you (a) know what an IP address is, and how to look one up, (b) you know what a dll file is, and (c) you have a toolkit that exists only on your hard drive.

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:11 pm

You watch an interesting plot twist on a TV show and think, "Oh, NOW I know what I should do to my lad!"

Despite not caring for world geography at all before baiting, you can find Mali, Ivory Coast, et cetera on the map.

You have your very own charity which, for some reason, never actually sees, or hands out, money or aid.

You come here every month for your calendar instead of buying a proper one.

Before: Your government's forms were too long, too confusing, and a waste of time.
Now: You just snicker when you have to fill in one because it's nothing compared to what you've done to your lads.

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:20 pm

Your typing/keyboarding and spelling skills have deteriorated due to impersonating a lad so much.

You look longingly at prepaid phones and wonder how to buy one with impunity from the budget committee.

You actually look in your spam folder for new bait opportunities.

Your family ask how the baits are going (and mean it).

Your spouse reads over your shoulder and starts laughing and caring about the personal stories on Eater.

You have told your Sponsor you don't drink/use anymore because you are so busy baiting.

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:03 pm

... you question every single letter that arrives in the mail, ESPECIALLY the official ones while telling your spouse to wait until you have throughly searched only 9 times out of 10 to uncover another scam (happened today).

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:51 pm

The washing is piling up
The house is falling apart
The model railway you promised would be built for June 2007 is still not finished
The first thing you do when firing up the computer is to see how things are with Stinky and the Leg
Your keyboard is worn out (and covered in coffee)
Your holiday videos from last summer are still waiting to be edited
You know why birds suddenly appear.
Seeing a picture of a person with a fish on their head, a loaf of bread under each arm and a pineapple stuck between their legs doesn't raise an eyebrow

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1269

You've lost count of how many "you know you're a baiter" threads you've posted in. 20? 25?

You are genuinely disappointed to check your RL email and discover that you have no check mule job offers (with websites to kill).

You remember the time way back when, where a lad came onto eater attempting to sell an e-book about 419 scams. http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38221

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

When your personal email account gets closed due to inactivity, but you still have 20+ other accounts you manage to check every day.

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:43 am

PRS Girly Girl wrote:

You send your new boyfriend or girlfriend an ASEM with attractive pictures attached and from a new Gmail address to test their faithfulness and personal story.

Ouch.

You avoid WU or MG in RL
You trace the IP address of every email from an unknown person
You are always looking for new tools and creative to use against your lads
You use the phrase "Top of the day" without thinking about it

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:59 am

You have dreams where you're walking down a street in Lagos, you're looking at all the people, and wondering how many of them are "lads".

You realize that you're just as good as liar as any politician.

You know who Charles Soludo is, what he looks like, and what his signature looks like.

You've heard the names Morris Thomspon and Andreas Schranner more times than you can remember, and you know who they were.

You can name some air crashes that have taken place in the last ten years and where they happened, including the flight numbers.

You can rattle off the names of some expressways in major West African cities as if you have been to those cities yourself.

You can't wait to sign some guestbooks to get some mail that no one else you know wants to get in the first place.

You have an excellent understanding of how WU works....or rather, how it doesn't work. Laughing

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:14 am

You wonder if this isn't a bad "resource" to have in the general"thread. Rolling Eyes

You giggle/cackle insanely at inappropriate (and appropriate) times every day.

^ everyone knows WHY you do that.

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:58 am

Your writing emails has actually become a cut and paste job with mere filler words because you say the same all day long Embarassed

You think of how you can make people around you do you favours now by promising them fantastic things for later.

You think of online banking as suspiciously easy. Havent you just seen a similarly working fake site?

You say to yourself "oh no!" when your friends use gmx, yahoo and t-online email addies.

You are surprised how many WU facilities your home town has and you think of special formwork.

You see that RL forms are 200% more time-wasting than the 1TV5-Form ever was Laughing

In my case, your chats have become English to 80-90%.

You would actually like to meet your favourite lad, go with him to a pub, invite him to a beer, lay your arms around his shoulder and reveal that all your baiting characters to him have just been you, you alone Very Happy

- damn, I really dreamt this repeatedly! Off to T4m4le Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:54 am

... you get upset about not getting enough SPAM

... a co-worker drops by to ask "how things are going" and you reply "well, my loan lad is ..." and he says "No, I mean with work."

... a co-worker drops by to ask "how things are going" and you reply "well, work is ..." and he says "No, I mean with your loan Lad."

... you randomly giggle in elevators and walking down the street thinking about an email you just sent/received

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:29 am

.... If you find yourself nodding in agreement to each and every one of these.

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