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Cathy2008
Master Baiter
Joined: 07 Oct 2008
Posts: 200
Location: UK
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Fri May 01, 2009 4:33 pm |
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Just a thread for a bit of idle chatter.
I have been aware of the 419 scams from my charity days when we were often sent a copy Will and told we had been left millions. I used to have pitched rows with the directors with them getting terribly excited and me having to explain that a will witnessed by Mickey Mouse and Prince Charles was unlikely to be the real McCoy.
Last year though, a friend of mine met a "girl" on the internet. She had a "legal" problem and he put "her" in touch with me. I immediately sussed her as a scammer - he was on the point of sending her money for her plane ticket. Thankfully, he listened to good sense. The particular "scammer" is still in touch with one of my alter egos and after over a year is still professing undying love and not once asked for money. Perhaps he is playing the "long con".
Just being generally nosy tho on a Friday night with not much else to do! |
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Inkerman
419Eater is my life
Joined: 20 Jun 2005
Posts: 384
Location: North of the Border
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Fri May 01, 2009 4:46 pm |
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I really can't remember but I've just looked up my first ever post and most of the people on the page have been banned! |
_________________ Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail. |
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limburger
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 21 Nov 2008
Posts: 619
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Fri May 01, 2009 5:04 pm |
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For me it was the UK technology news web site www.theregister.co.uk. On that site, they would occasionally post a story about something new that lads were doing (who they call "the lads from Lagos"). A quick search on their site will show you the type of articles I mean. I believe it was a link on one of their stories that got me reading here in the first place. Well before this I had received a few of these emails but never thought to bait them.
At first I didn't notice the forum and just read the published baits on the front page, but then found the gold that is in here. |
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so your job is to hack some body job you go die and you must run mad in this country all generation will go to hell fire i must get you and i will troll way you inside beach idiot as you hack my money and you crate email dey write richard as you do it i will spoil the job . idot --Steve F |
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Larson
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 02 Dec 2008
Posts: 518
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Fri May 01, 2009 5:20 pm |
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I had, previous to my time here, never received a 419 scam letter. Still, somehow I found this site and started reading the baits published by Shiver. Eventually I started visiting the forum and started baiting myself. I can't remember how I found the site though. Most likely is was the chance result of a google search I did. |
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listen i don't beg you money if you don't interested through this transaction please kindly remove your hand and stop contact me - Razak Konan, Malaysia
OK BYE AND NEVER CONTACT ME AGAIN FUCK YOUR MUMMY BOTTOM , MUST THIS NIGHT MARK IT SOME WHERE, OK. - Simon Legree / Christopher Moore, Nigeria |
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Tastysnack
Elite Baiter
Joined: 16 Jul 2008
Posts: 1407
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Fri May 01, 2009 5:22 pm |
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I did it for the free hooker service and toaster provided by joining the "Premium" section of 419. |
_________________ "I DO NOT THINK WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER. YOU HAVE BROUGHT MORE PAINS TO ME THAN GOOD." Mr. Wang Yan- After I attempted to rebait with same name as last time. 2-4-09
"you are the must fool i have ever seen fuck you like the 12.5 million idoit dont write me again" Radebe Gumede 7-16-09 after his bank transfer failed.
"Sorry we do not know Mr. Gomer. Send that email fromthe so called gomer to us for scrutiny."- Devati Mooleedhar
SON OF A DOG GO EAT SHIT AND DRINK WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOSERRRRRRRRR.GET A LIFE--Bakar Saud (After Mr. Gomer chopped his dolla')
YOU ATE OUR MONEY AND YOU START MOCKING US--Bishop Anthony
Fake Checks Received= $63,487 US |
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Cathy2008
Master Baiter
Joined: 07 Oct 2008
Posts: 200
Location: UK
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Fri May 01, 2009 5:28 pm |
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So do the ladies get a free gentleman escort service? And can we choose our model of toaster? Or can we trade it for a crate of Pinot and a cheese sarnie? |
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SlapHappy
Baiting Guru
Joined: 15 May 2006
Posts: 9612
Location: Floating up and down with happiness.
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Fri May 01, 2009 5:49 pm |
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I stumbled on this site somehow. I don't remember how. But once here, I blame YeaWhatever, BigWorm, and ScamPatroller for hooking me. They had some amazing safaris going at the time, and I never laughed so hard in my entire life. |
_________________ 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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Inkerman
419Eater is my life
Joined: 20 Jun 2005
Posts: 384
Location: North of the Border
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Fri May 01, 2009 5:57 pm |
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I started visiting the forum and started baiting myself. |
The easiest way into baiting although the replies you get are somewhat predictable.
On the plus side, Trophy pics are a breeze!
Apologies Mr. Larson, it was irresistable. |
_________________ Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail. |
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Ima Baeder
Baiting Guru
Joined: 03 May 2007
Posts: 18313
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Fri May 01, 2009 6:04 pm |
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^^^
Almost exactly two years ago, a friend sent me a link to Eater saying "I think you'll get a kick out of this".
I had never received a scam email or even heard of Advance Fee Fraud. I also didn't know what a domain/hoster/registrar or whois information was. |
_________________ 348 Fake Sites killed
x 100 2 Years |
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benjaminbunny
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 3534
Location: escargotland
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Fri May 01, 2009 6:16 pm |
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Scam Patroller
Baiting Guru
Joined: 08 Jul 2004
Posts: 11857
Location: UK
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Fri May 01, 2009 7:19 pm |
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Dorothy
Baiting Guru
Joined: 09 Jul 2008
Posts: 3114
Location: somewhere over the rainbow
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Fri May 01, 2009 8:37 pm |
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I handle the bulk of the email for a humane society, and since the primary addresses are posted on the web, 419's like the typical NOK were pretty common. I always deleted them, thinking that they were too obvious for anyone to fall for, and also knowing that nobody else who had access to the organization email would even read them (if it isn't clear that it is relevant to the organization in the first few lines, they would leave it to me anyway).
But then the pet-specific scams and fake check donation scams started coming in, and though I quickly realized they were fake (it helps to be naturally very cynical), they really pissed me off because I knew people in the animal world (including at my own hs) that would probably be naive enough to fall for for them. I lurked at several scam and baiting sites just to keep myself informed, but didn't get involved. Then last summer I discovered that my grandmother had been scammed into numerous "item of the month" clubs in response to free offers and realized that if she were online, she would probably be falling for lottery scams, etc. too--so I stopped lurking and started doing. |
_________________ "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more..." |
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windypops
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 6059
Location: Planet X
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Fri May 01, 2009 8:47 pm |
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I got my internet connection, the spam followed hot on its heels which brought me here when I did a search on ways to stop it. I've been on Eater for almost as long as I've had internet.
This place has taught just about all I know on the way the net and its users operate. |
_________________ "No amount of semen donation will save this situation" Sanny Sanny
"We must disagree to agree" Raji Musa
If it's LADS you want. GoTo: http://www.yopmail.com/
and sign in with either ladmail or kentbrockman
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Nanny Ogg
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Mar 2007
Posts: 2628
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Fri May 01, 2009 9:47 pm |
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I had an email address
Had no spam filter
I got fed up of the spam.
Searched about it, looking for way to stop it, landed here.
Ended up with lots of email addresses
and lots of spam
This week I am mostly a widowed rennet farmer with a fierce guard haggis
I do love how silly I can be with the lads
It may not be much in the giant scheme of things but I do feel when they look for a W onion near to my fictional home, admire my pet goat pictures or give me their bank details thay are less likely to be spending time with a real victim |
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Lobo
419Eater is my life
Joined: 04 Aug 2007
Posts: 368
Location: Adrift in cyberspace
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Fri May 01, 2009 10:08 pm |
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I, too had no clue what an advance fee fraud was until I came here. A few years back I complained to a friend about all these e-mails I kept getting about winning lotteries from other countries, etc... She told me to stop by this "eater" site and post one of them in the surplus section. I lurked for a while, signed up, and the rest is history... |
_________________ 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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FrumpyBB
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
Posts: 5988
Location: Germany
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Fri May 01, 2009 10:33 pm |
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I came in here purely for the entertainment value originally. I liked the idea of fighting scammers with their own weapons, and as a battle of wits. Shiver proved in so many examples that it could be possible to make a lad safari, or a funny picture for you...so I read and read and read, everything in the letters archive, and also on the drschmoo and frank rizzo site, during the whole autumn 2006.
No, I was not aware of 419, of the Nigeria Connection, before I found an article in a computer magazine about the 419ers, with an Eater link... |
_________________ 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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sunshine
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
Posts: 2804
Location: Anywhere a lad needs setting on fire
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Fri May 01, 2009 11:23 pm |
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I fell off my horse last year.
<--- that one
Bust a few ribs and whilst laid up found this idiot called "Shiver" who made lads travel to the end of the earth and put fish on their heads. "ooh that looks fun" I said.
The rest is history. |
_________________ so dont push my spirit to do a bad fasting for your head if not you will confam your self as a died person okay - Pastor Divine
OBOSH WILL KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. YOU WILL NEVER SEE GOOD THING IN LIFE. OGUN WILL KILL YOU BASTARD SUN OF OBOSH. - Dr Oilyseagoon
AN ALIEN YOU ARE FROM THE PIT OF HELL - Abraham
I have explain this whole process to you so many times over and over again. - Spencer
Praveen - Hanuman Junction - Hyderabad x2
Bola - Accra - Cotonou Alex - Accra - Abidjan Austin - Accra - Abidjan
George - Accra - Cotonou - Lome - Niamtougou Toks London - Milford Haven
x170 Engineer Cooke vs. Temeraire x8 |
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r2d2
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 19 Apr 2009
Posts: 796
Location: in a galaxy far far away
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Fri May 01, 2009 11:24 pm |
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my grandmother got hooked by a scammer, but my father caught it before too much damage was done.
i mentioned this to a friend, who mentioned this site, and i started lurking here.
i loved the idea of turning the tables on scammers!
subsequently i was involved in a very bad accident, from which i'm still recovering [hence the smallcaps]
and as the recovery is going to take many months and i'll have time on my hands, i figured i should stop lurking and start baiting. |
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ParaNoid
** REMEMBERED **
Joined: 12 Sep 2006
Posts: 5123
Location: Looking for Steward.
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Sat May 02, 2009 2:39 am |
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I was traded from my original team..
...I think the deal was a stick of gum and a filter cigarette.
Like some others here, a protracted recovery is what gave me the time to become a real <strike>postwhore</strike> baiter and member of the Eater community.
Plus I have always been cynical. |
_________________ 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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Corona
Baiting Guru
Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 8809
Location: On ya left!
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Sat May 02, 2009 2:39 am |
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blah
Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 03 Dec 2008
Posts: 1775
Location: Speckled Cct Springfield Lakes QLD 4300
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Sat May 02, 2009 2:48 am |
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Probably around a year and a half ago I started answering some of the scam mails I received, just out of curiosity.
I basically just asked them a whole bunch of dumb questions about their offers in order to try and stump them. (which wasn't hard)
Then one day I was bored and googling one of the scammers email addys and it brought me here. Read most of Shiver's stories and never laughed so much in my entire life. I was hooked from there on out! |
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With all due respect. you nothing but a cheap scum.idoit and heartless man!! - Turkey Smith
please daddy don't lunch your powers on Mr.alex! - my "son".
M7CN Mangler - 1998 clicks. This process is absolutely embarassing. - Sgt. Jones
M7CN Mangler+SecSh1eld+Allst@r= How dear you make me go thru such stress.. - Fr@nk West
<a href="/forum/donate.php">[Click here for dirty nasty pr0n!!1]</a>
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Corona
Baiting Guru
Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 8809
Location: On ya left!
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Sat May 02, 2009 3:06 am |
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Shiver's book did not come out at the time that I joined, but I knew it was in the making. I waited patiently while getting into the scene and here me was.
Hello again! |
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Free Pastor Frank
An Eater's Sweetheart Safari |
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CowboyBuck
Elite Baiter
Joined: 04 Aug 2007
Posts: 1077
Location: Riding the Western Union Trail
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Sat May 02, 2009 5:15 am |
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About two years ago, I had a friend who would forward to me the
more outrageous 419 emails that she received, and I started writing
to the lads asking for photographs.
Then I found 419Eater.
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_________________ Accra to Abuja to Lagos
Mr. King - May 2008 to May 2009
A few more
Right now I am getting pissed with your responses
And still you later claimed there are snakes on the road to the Western Union
Please for the sake of humanity help Mr. Felix and I to get this money |
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Sat May 02, 2009 5:20 am |
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One day, well, I was here. |
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Fakers: many, many, lots; an SSL and a couple of Resellers.
x 6
AH, AH, AH! Two little ! |
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weareborg
Elite Baiter
Joined: 07 Sep 2008
Posts: 1112
Location: out there in the wide blue yonder
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Sun May 03, 2009 4:10 am |
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I found the site via a Google search, a long while ago. Then sat on it for months before I did something about it.
But the great part about it, is you can be nasty to people and people on here, tell you your doing a great job. |
_________________ Click here to support 419Eater.com
Resistance is futile
assimilation is paramount
Why am I such an evil bastard, Mum said I take after my father
My mum to betray to you huge hi,
You have changed my world and you makes me so Un-happy! Everyone around me can see that!
I wished to eat.... Has opened a refrigerator... But, in it it is empty.... Now I am compelled to go to shop...
To my girlfriend 30 years yesterday were executed, and was very cheerful.sounds like a dead party
Honey I understand all our complexities in our meeting! We should overcome them!!! Please,
do not look back, only forward!!! We together will pass fire, water and copper pipes SHIT not the copper pipes |
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