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noob8r
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 25
Location: Canada, eh?
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:22 am |
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Just wondering how long you've been baitin'!
I'm very very very new to this whole thing...
I didn't even know scambaiting existed until like four days ago...already have a couple lads I'm working on. |
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Master of Puppets
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Posts: 3294
Location: Pulling the Strings
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:00 am |
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I've known it for a few years but was quite hesitant to start doing it myself at first... Why? Safety-issues. I was just 16 when I started reading a few of the baits on the homepage (somehow missed the forum back then), so I didn't think it a safe sport and thought I'd have to do it without the help of a community.
Two months back I discovered the forums and tried to register, that didn't really work though, so I kept trying and succeeded one month and two days ago. Have been baiting since.
ETA: Welcome to this wonderful place that makes any free time you have spontaneously disappear, as I've personally experienced... |
_________________ x4
Oke: Todger club entry submission + (Co-bait with Albator) |
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drbo
Master Baiter
Joined: 23 Feb 2009
Posts: 127
Location: Canuckville
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:10 am |
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Been baiting for a few years now but only recently discovered this site and had no idea there was a community of like minded people.
As the previous poster said... get ready to lose a lot of your spare time...
This is very addictive... the crack cocaine of the internet.. except it is for a good cause. |
_________________ Killing mugu's time and cash is what I do...
x3
Click here to support 419Eater.com
I have taken $297,636.58 worth of useless checks off the streets. |
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noob8r
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 25
Location: Canada, eh?
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:11 am |
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Master of Puppets wrote: |
I've known it for a few years but was quite hesitant to start doing it myself at first... Why? Safety-issues. I was just 16 when I started reading a few of the baits on the homepage (somehow missed the forum back then), so I didn't think it a safe sport and thought I'd have to do it without the help of a community.
Two months back I discovered the forums and tried to register, that didn't really work though, so I kept trying and succeeded one month and two days ago. Have been baiting since.
ETA: Welcome to this wonderful place that makes any free time you have spontaneously disappear, as I've personally experienced... |
HAHA
Yes, I've spent quite a bit of time on this site and others like it, setting up my little 'operation'. It's really not a good time for me to be doing this either, consdering i'm in the midst of exam season at university... |
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Master of Puppets
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Posts: 3294
Location: Pulling the Strings
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:17 am |
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FrumpyBB
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
Posts: 5988
Location: Germany
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:34 am |
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Following a link from the computer maganize c't, I found this site in August 06. Until then, I thought reading stories of people trying to find degree confluence points with GPS thingies was the most fascinating sport on the internet Reading all Shiver´s baits and most of the others in the Letters Archive sweetened that autumn for me, but I haven´t started seriously until June 07. Mainly because I didn´t get a mentor. So, get a mentor |
_________________ SIR,I DON'T ENTERTAIN RIGMAROLE AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DILLY- DALLY.
the ball is in your cult
x 5 ARK & Co. incl. 1 safari w/ RS17 & NTBS
Dan the lotto man, ARK mugu wedding
Dennis the hitman, co-bait w/ Murry Guru
Zake (w/ SH, SL & Craig)
x 5 Modeling Mugu Meeting, w/ mewing_ghecko & Otterfan & SSC
x 2 another MMM w/ SH
x 13 Later shows and trips for the benefit of M00seknuckle, incl. the 0budu Fact Finding Mission
Come to our Eater University Baiting Tutorials Cos you deserve it. x5 x50+ x 4 -- |
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Sid Vicious
Master Baiter
Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 189
Location: The medicine cabinet woofing down @ load of Paracetemols ;)
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:37 am |
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Many years ago on another non related forum someone had posted a link to here and if you wanted a good laugh to read Shivers letters. Instantly saved the site to my favs and whenever i needed a bit of cheering up i'd read one of his escapades Always wanted to be a Baiter probably from the first few times i visited and not be someone who just stood back. Sadly as many will know my IT skills are woeful and this brought up concerns of how effective i would be. So i just kept reading the Stickies etc and am having great fun now and the odd panic attack when some IT issue crops up.. Thanks to advice from people on this site i can usually resolve it and move on.. As MoP has said RL does kinda get thrown out of the window but i have started to prioritize my RL with baiting. |
_________________ Me - Viva La Revolution! Ernest Kojo - WHAT REVALUATION?
Johnson Christian -THE GUY YOU WHERE DEALING WITH FROM NIGERIA WAS A VICTIM OF THE RUBBERS WHO KILLED HIM
<a href="/forum/donate.php">[CLUNK CLICK ]</a> |
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Yastreb
Common Street Thawth Vergabon
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
Posts: 17388
Location: Leading my wolf pack
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:01 pm |
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I did some totally amateur and untrained baits in 2004, and then a friend put me on to Scamorama and I began learning from experienced baiters.
Just three years ago I followed a link from Scamorama, found the Eater, and marvelling at the talent herein, signed up at once. |
_________________ Son of a bitch!!! Your dead!!! Everything about your stinking poor life is dead!!! Get off my way you son of a bitch mother ....a man without father bastard....your dead Ok
May you never se the end of the year, May you sick and die in JESUS NAME AMEN.
MARK MY WORD, YOU SHALL FALL SICK, IF YOU DONT PLEASE WITH ME, YOU SHALL DIE OF THE SICKNESS, THIS IS MY FINAL WORD TO YOU
I HAVE PLACED YOU UNDER MY ORACLE GODS,
YOU SHALL CRY AND BEG FOR FORGIVENESS OR YOU DIE
x5 x2 x 246
x 5 - Oyenka Chidinma Lagos-Cotonou; Dickyboi Lagos-Accra; Femmy Lagos-Porto Novo; "Woody" Accra-Singapore; Henry Philip Abuja-Natitingou w/MG & DSW
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Lobo
419Eater is my life
Joined: 04 Aug 2007
Posts: 368
Location: Adrift in cyberspace
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:22 pm |
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I discovered Eater in '06 thanks to a friend. I had complained to her about all these "crap" e-mails I kept getting(at the time I had never heard of scambaiting). She pointed me here and suggested I post one or two in surplus. I lurked for close to a year before taking the plunge. Haven't had any free time since. Frumpy's advice is sound. Get a mentor, I would have been lost without all the great help from mine. |
_________________ x8 x19
Lobo's List of Lads that can't spell F*CK:
DONT FULK WITH US PAUL !! Agent Monday Snipper
FORK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Moses Modese
"write to me and tell to me more about myself" KristinaLove
"i might be shit to another time which might be in 3weeks or 1month" Raymond Miller mass bait
"you will be pilled to death" Adamu Ibrahim
"why is western union hard this time please?" Mr. Morgan
JOIN THE PACK! |
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drew.p.coque
419Eater is my life
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 383
Location: front, and low. lower!
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:26 pm |
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started back a few years ago, i`ve stopped now. i did start up again. but stopped. i`ve been real busy at work.
i still look in on the forums a few tims a week.
best bait was 8 or so months. no real / decent trophies though. |
_________________ *this deal is like a straw to a drowning man -chuck solodu
*Call me on my direct line so that we can talk for batter understanding-Aziz
*bank valued at USD 11.5M, left in account number:$286-41732-55
*THANKS FOR PLAYING WITH MY TIME, PLEASE KINDLY FORGET ABOUT THIS TRANSACTION
*you have to tell any one you are here . everything has to be confidential -kevina |
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Ivana
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 29 Sep 2008
Posts: 852
Location: Beautiful Hot Springs
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:54 pm |
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Someone tried to scam me when I was a single mother - I pointed out the us postal money order site, the scam they had listed almost word for word...that pissed me off he was trying to take advantage of a broke single mom...
Fall of last year my 17 year old son turned me onto shiver & companies bait/trophy reading...and I was facinated
At first I thought I'd just read, but I couldn't help it and started baiting myself, that was around November...
Been having fun since |
_________________ x2 Lagos - Cont, Benin "i really waste my money,time,effort,energy" - j.m. (w/OD)
x2 Lagos - Cont. Benin, Lagos - Benin city - "i wasted my time and my money" - collins (w/OD)
x2 Lagos to Benin city - kelvin (thanks again OD !!!) ongoing bait
spent a night in jail for "wondering aimlessly"in benin city - Kelvin
"that i might be talking with an antichrist" - Kelvin
"thanks for all your effort witch never prove positive" - kelvin over m7cn s3cur3
"is hard ok i can not sleep becouse of it" - due to m7cn s3cur3 - Kelvin
"i even had a sleepless night because of it" - 2nd lad, m7cn again
"i cant go through the stress overnight again" - 3rd lad from M7CN |
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Captain Pike
Baiting Guru
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Posts: 2579
Location: Starbase 11
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:37 pm |
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I've been doing this on and off for over five years. I had heard about 419 emails in 2001 but it wasn't until two years later that I got one. I was mad as hell learning about 419 and even madder that they contacted me.
I wanted then to write back and string them along, but didn't out of concerns for my safety. When I stumbled upon Scamorama in 2003 then I learned I wasn't alone in wanting to bait them. After two months of reading baits and Alex Kerensky's message board, I decided to take the plunge.
I keep doing this, I think, for the entertainment. I also like to collect fake checks and money orders. |
_________________ x13 x5 (393 days)
"On the 21st of April 2001, my client? His wife and their three children were involved in a plane crash of Union Transport Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin Republic on the December 26,2003" Barrister Olorunshogo Williams, 25 October 2004.
"I am in reciept of your mail,i want you to know that you are really getting on my nerves." Burt Hardley, Wellkang International, 20 November 2007
"Please worry, we have already advice the FBI and they don't need to call you. They are very brianliant and intelident. They will get you soon. " Mr. Paul Rogers, Global Medical Equipment, 20 November 2007
As of 26 February 2009, $2,231,983.53 of fake checks and money orders have been intercepted and removed from circulation. |
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TheLovelyJill
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 18 Jan 2009
Posts: 966
Location: Viewing astroturf at a cracking owl sanctuary
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:48 pm |
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Alerted to the baiting community and potential comedy potential through TMF - http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=10966697&sort=whole
Seriously baiting since Jan 09 when my family advised me to come home from work in the evening and not carry on working...
Now I'm obsessed with two things... |
_________________ FUCK YOU LYN3TTE OR WHOEVER. ASSHOLE - A Cole
You are a useless woman. Please go to hell where you belong - THE EUROPEAN UNION
She has been waiting [at the airport] for you for hours and is very afraid - Edw4rd C0le's Madrid lad.
Your father was a coward and your mother a fagot - Barr G0ldsmith
You be jail soon let wait and see........ P0ntus
I no longer want to involve you in this transaction since I am beginning to see your cunny part.
i wasn't fucking gay until i married you - MM
- Trafalgar Square 2013
- Hector co-bait
- Mr Ayo - Lagos-Porto-Novo (probably x3) "You lier. I will not for-give Because you waste my money. you lier."
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Slightlyoutofit
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 14310
Location: Foraging for Nuts.
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:39 am |
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4 or 5 years for me.
I first joined Eater back around Xmas 2004 under a different name but went dormant for a year or so and returned with the date below my avatar.
All that exists of my previous brilliance is one post with my old username from May 2005 marked "Guest".
Incidentally, the one old post I can find has me advocating cash-baiting (it had just been banned). Oh, how young and naive I was back then (still incredibly talented though). |
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God will see you true for all this you have done to me you bastard. - Collins Kalu
MAY THE HAND THAT TYPE ON KEYBORD BECOME STRICKEN AND TRANSMIT VIRUS TO YOU ENTIRE BODY. - Dr Linda Akeem
oh what a mess its time cabbage punks like u will be expose for trully what they are. - David Cole |
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Star A Star
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 03 Jul 2008
Posts: 821
Location: Chad Central
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:34 am |
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not long enough, I now realise I've wasted all of my adult life
I first came across this site in July of last year from a link on a football message board and I was stripped and ready for action within days so far I've amassed a paper fortune of over $300 million and with my share of [creep mode]Yastrebs[/creep mode] $250 billion I may well retire |
_________________ X 27
i am tired and i am waisting my morning
i am tired of all these rusbish, i am waisiting my time andf mone
Ok i will try and take the form to my staff members, once i get the form filled, i am not ready to fill another form, make sure that this is all the forms, i am going to fill them and once i get them done, i will not fill another form
If you see how i was insulted in the western union office, you will pitty me - nope you're wrong there pal |
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D11
Elite Baiter
Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 1702
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:06 am |
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been baiting a few years now, I mostly go with straight baits hence i dont post many of them as seen one seem em all kinda thing.
What i do for the past couple of years is build ever more frustrating websites for lads to sit there waiting... and the occassional tool that drives them mad as well.
After a while everyone kinda drifts into there own speciality, and its brilliant when you see it all put together and someone posts a trophy.
When i joined a trophy was a pic or a driving licence, but since then members have really outdone themselves, and trophies such as x-wing fighters.
I wouldnt be surprised if baiting has opened a brand new industry of wood carvers lol. |
_________________
1x 0x
Click here to support 419Eater.com
I make software that drives lads crazy. Thats my revenge on lads. (it all helps)
this transaction is 100 percent risk/hitch free - bobo
why no pay me - abum bello
because the cops will know it was you - me
ok this is good - abum bello |
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e6ffdyr0
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 2297
Location: Argabuthon
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:20 am |
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WOW, I have come here due to an article in the very same magazine that brought us FrumpyBB Perhaps we should grant the Heise publisher one year PREMIUM membership as a small "thank you" But must have been another issue as my postings go back to 2005. I had three very active and funny years of baiting then I have (more or less) retired since 2008. Now I enjoy all the spare time and the status of an old daffy gramps playing the wise old man giving advise to others |
_________________ - any spelling mistakes are intentional -
Sign my guestbook
i DEY SHIT ON UR PAPA AND UR MAMA HEAD. iNSHORT I GO ASK RAT TO SHIT INSIDE THERE MOUTHS IF U KNOW DEY CAREFUL. AND U GO ROAT IN HELL FIRE YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMI;LY. (tunde aramide)
11x
Tamale -> Accra (4hm3d R4y4n K4d1r1)
Hamburg -> Hannover (B4rry M3ns4)
J0shua Al4mu Th0mas & K3lvin Oz1ri (both courtesy of Prudential Ltd.)
For reasons only known to myself, I have discontinued all my funbaiting efforts. |
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Craig007
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 3123
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:22 am |
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2 years in 4 days time |
_________________ CAN VISA BE GIVING IN THE PLANE? YOUR QUEEN ELIZABETH CAN NOT TAKE VISA IN THE PLANE,TALKLESS OF YOU - WILLIAM PAUL
x7
Wulugu or Bust Safari- Lagos, Nigeria to Paga, Ghana and Tokwari, Ghana X2-3800mi. "I'm leaving this bullshit area"
- Accra to Cotonou - 430 miles
100% RISK FREE TRANSACTION
CHERRIE MENTOR PROGRAM |
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SlapHappy
Baiting Guru
Joined: 15 May 2006
Posts: 9612
Location: Floating up and down with happiness.
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:40 pm |
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"Hello. My name is SlapHappy. I am an addicted Eater trophy whore. I have not stopped laughing for the last three years...." |
_________________ x Reven U., Fats Walla, Donny
x10 X2 MM:Mikex2, JohnK, D@rlington, Ob1, Armstrong, Ismail, TG&Friend
x3 Nancy, Security Guy, Robert Accra-Tamale
(19 mo.) Tina and Joe's Safari - Accra to Niger & Timbucktu
Z@ke & Charlie -Wulugu Or Bust Safari- Lagos to Paga & Tokwari X2 - 3800mi.
x3 H3ctor & C@leb - Yankar1 & Parakou
x2 Charles and Friend-Amsterdam to Vatican
Issac to Chad
Be A Cool Cat, Like Me Trophy Videos Cool Stuff
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ParaNoid
** REMEMBERED **
Joined: 12 Sep 2006
Posts: 5123
Location: Looking for Steward.
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:13 pm |
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Since about a month before I joined Eater (not counting years of telling scammers to leave me alone*).
*Note, this has not been seen to be effective. |
_________________ Gold Coins here
x 4 <b>Looking for a Mentor? Click here</b>
"If I get mad at you, please just understand me. I am just being ParaNoid because I love you so much." - unknown
Visit www.scamwarners.com |
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bruckner
Master Baiter
Joined: 18 Oct 2008
Posts: 214
Location: Okobia Gold Mini Site
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:20 am |
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couple of months in earnest. Dabbled every once in a while before that, never seemed to get anywhere (might have been a lack of effort, too).
Mentoring here rocks. I've learned the easy way how to straight bait, while at the same time running 5 or 6 other lads as 'experiments' outside of the mentoring thing. I guess I just became one of those guy's Oga, even after killing two of his bank accounts and chopping his dolla.
safe, stickies, mentor. Three words all newbies should heed. I'm glad I did all three Oh, and people here are actually really receptive to dumb sounding questions. I know I've asked a number of em. Premium membership is an absolute bargain, and helps in a small way to help keep the wheels on. |
_________________ you be fool too so you dey play with me now lake of comfirmation dey hurry you or you nor get sense? tell me - Dennis Ali
THUNDER STRIKE UR PAPA AND UR GENETIC. - Benjamin the Insult Boi
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Vote for Dickboi |
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Esq
Poster Boi
Joined: 22 Apr 2008
Posts: 684
Location: MHC6 HQ, Australia
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:00 am |
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I am a few days off my first Eaterversary.
My specialtys are religious and trophy (banners) baiting. |
_________________ =Mr Thomas (MHC6 Lagos) Lagos - Contonou
=Mr James (MHC6 Lagos) Lagos - Contonou
= I knew that MHC6 is one of the wonders in the World,and all of us have to exprience it,and understand it - Okunlola O. Thomas FMHC6
I WAS AT THE NOVOTEL ORISHA HOTEL TILL 11 PM THAT DAY AND I WAS TOLD BY THE HOTEL STAFFS THAT I CAN NOT SPEND A NIGHT THERE AND I HAVE TO LEAVE AND WHENT TO THE NIGERIA EMBASSY THERE IN COTONOU TO STAY TILL THE FOLLOWING DAY AND I CALLED YOU THE FOLLOWING DAY AND YOU ASKED ME TO RETURN BACK TO NIGERIA WHICH I DID AND THAT HAS BEING MY WOST DAYS IN LIFE AS WAS EXPOSED TO A FULL TIME DIFFICITIES. - Augus5tine J4m35 |
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Karl_Ranseier
419Eater is my life
Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 423
Location: somewhere over the rainbow
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:17 am |
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I'm baiting since Feb 2006.
There was a news article on a website about a victim of a 419 scam.
In a comment, someone else posted a link to eater.
I read the letters and I did need only 3 days to stop laughing.
I thought, it would be a good idea to start scambaiting myself. Some kind of saying "Thank You" to eater for all this fun I had reading the stories. |
_________________ rowIand 0bimdike: YOU MUST BE CRAZY AND MAD. GO TO HELL SON OF A BITCH LIKE YOU. DON'T EVER WRITE ME AGAIN. YOU THINK YOU CAN JOKE WITH ME. EVEN I DID NOT GO TO THE HOTEL. I JUST WROTE TO YOU THAT I WENT BUT I DIDN'T. I AM ON MY HOME. SO GO AND PICH UP YOUR ROUTHLESS MOTHER AT THE AIRPORT.
So you where not really at the hotel? |
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firehouse5
Palm Wino Aficionado
Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Posts: 4953
Location: swimming in Ogogoro
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:43 pm |
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I have been baiting for years - predating the start of eater.
My first 419 bait started from a fax sent to my dad's company in the early 80s when I was a teenager. He showed it to me as a ridiculous scam, and didn't realize I started postal correspondence with the scammer (I had a number of international pen pals at the time). Ummm, I did use my real name but I claimed I was a rodeo cowboy and rock star, etc. etc. Fortunately I lived in the middle of nowhere so I never had any scammers visit me, and I quit replying out of boredom after a few exchanges.
In college I got into the habit of baiting MLM scamsters - unfortunately again using my real details. I worked in a few mall-based retailers during this time, and these guys would cruise around, acting like customers, appearing "impressed" with my customer service and asking if I ever wanted to get into business for myself. It became very easy to spot these guys but I discontinued this activity when I started receiving threatening phone calls!
then a little later I rediscovered the 419ers, and some early chatter about baiting them in the usenet group news.admin.net-abuse.email where I was an obsessed lurker (at that time my interests were more about the technical aspects of anti-spam operations). I'm pretty sure there were a few pre-eater discussion sites (eg Alexander Kerensky's board on b2g4), all now defunct or useless as far as I know.... made my way here and they've never managed to shake me loose. |
_________________ Has a scammer sent you a bank account? please report it to any moderator using the private message function.
GO PREMIUM!
Oct2004-Oct2016 12 years but Cheat alert: many silent months!
dozens Not as many piggies as you.
The details you sent do not match, check your records and reply immediate. I have forced to wait in office for two hours with out eating |
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Corona
Baiting Guru
Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 8809
Location: On ya left!
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:29 pm |
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