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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:04 pm

i don't get any 419 or other spam requests on my gmail or yahoo email accounts. How do i ethically attract them? Thanks, Rev. M. Hunt of the Church of God's Holy Crab

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:07 pm

You can pick up all the scammers you need from the surplus forum.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

That would be here:
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=18

Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:35 pm

Alternatively, set up a filthy email account that you can use just for "catching". Yahoo and Hotmail are both quite good for it.

Seed a few guestbooks with that address. Google search for "Mugu" + "Guyman" + "Guestbook" + "2008" and then sign the first few guestbooks that it links to... take some time to leave a nice comment, the owners are innocent people. You should start recieving scam emails within a day or so. Sign 2 or 3 guestbooks, and you'll get a steady drip of 10 mails or so per day. Sign any more than that, and you'll be getting dozens upon dozens.

Another option is to join the shuttle service, where 7 of 9 has done all the hard work for you.
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=145242&highlight=shuttle
Unfortunately it's marked up as closed for maintenance at the moment.

Trophy Videos · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:41 pm

Some more sources of fresh lads:
You can visit these sites to pick and choose your lad as well. Most of them just report them but don't bait them, so feel free to grab a few.
http://www.419legal.org/
http://www.419baiter.com/_scam_emails/scammer-email-addresses.html
http://www.joewein.de/sw/419scam.htm
http://www.delphifaq.com/outside_the_cube_dating_scams.htm
http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/index.php?
http://www.mate4all.com/blocked_personals.php
http://alt.nntp2http.com/fraud/
http://www.scammerlist.com/scammer_profiles_list_city.html
http://antifraudintl.org/indexforum.php

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:03 pm

@ Rev. Mike, the next Shuttle Launch will be during the first week of February Smile

@Mugatu, I've removed the bug-splats from the windshield and restocked the liquor cabinets Cool

Master Baiter Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 143

If you seed your email address in guestbooks, make sure that either you a) reply to any received scams from a different email address (often easier to keep clear for yourself what's going on) or at least b) make sure your comments fit with your baiting persona.

One of my mugus googled my email address and challenged me about the results. He was suspicious already anyway, and I think I bluffed through without making him too much more suspicious, but it's better to avoid the necessity.

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1269

Put up a fake resume on monster.com, jobing.com, and careerbuilder.com . You should get a little stream of check mule job offers.

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:03 am

.. or if you're into love scams: 4ppl.com : create a profile, and scammers will be tumbling all over you. Very Happy

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Posts: 12

I'm new, too, and this information is useful, thanks!

Although, I have another question. In my regular email (which does get spam/scam-mail, though I could reply to it from another account, right?) I've gotten some scam emails recently that have been like "we've been waiting for you to contact us but you never did, so please respond" or some such. Obviously a scam and whatnot, but did they just hit the wrong email, or is this how some of them start off? Seems very weird to me. I've never used that address to contact any strangers at all.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

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though I could reply to it from another account, right?

Exactly. Just copy the lad's email and start writing from your baiting box.

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but did they just hit the wrong email, or is this how some of them start off?

That's how some start off - it supposed to appear as if they sent the email to the wrong person, who will then take advantage of their mistake.

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I've never used that address to contact any strangers at all.

One thing to check is just doing a basic Google search of your email addy; if it is posted anywhere on the web, that is one way lads would get it.

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