Scammer Genus

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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:10 am

WELCOME BUDDING BAITER/NATURALISTS ...
Have you ever wondered ..
What genus/species is the lad I am baiting?
(Yes they are all Homo sapiens I hear you say)
But read on ...
This post attempts to group scammers by their traits and behaviour.
The way they write e-mails, the things they say and do. How they try to scam and manipulate you, and best of all, how 'you' make them scream.
Basically it is a kind of scammer Modus operandi. It's mainly for comedy purposes but you might learn something as well Wink

If you find a 'rare' bahaviour, or just get a really weird scam e-mail, read the list and if you can't find an entry that looks like that type of lad, please add it to this Post. I hunt around the forums regularly looking for new scammer behavior and then give that lad a common name and a Latin name. If you find one you get it named after yourself.
This top post is the master list, you would have to read on to see the lovely quotes and links.

VIEW THE FULL GENUS IN THIS LONG HTML PAGE!! The stuff below is just a selection.
http://members.419eater.com/~wowwow/Scammer_Genus.html With quotes coming soon.

Below is the cut down verison with no added comments.

FAMILY: Mugu a.k.a. Lad (Latin: Mugus) The family known as Mugu. Known to inhabit all habitable parts of the Earth, and some uninhabitable ones as well.

GENUS

Sad

The Common Mugus (Lat: Dullii): Most scammers are of one of these species.

Twisted Evil

The Damned Mugus (Lat: Tohellicum): Scammers who have little chance of pulling their scam off, often starting with an unbelievable script.

Confused

The Uneducated/De-educated Mugus: (Lat: Illiteratus): Species which has great similarities with 'The Damned'. However their inability to scam results from a lack of knowledge/education/literacy/unavailability of a dictionary. Generally dumb as a box of rocks.

bow_down

The Religious Mugus (Lat: Godhicum): Uses religion and god as a hook for their scam. Either purporting to be religious.

typing

The Self-baiting Mugus (Lat: Persistia): Off script scammer who wastes his own time by insisting on ID/anything else you don't give him again and again. Often writes unnecessarily long e-mails in explanation when asked about anything, and fills out baiter forms religiously.

beating

The Masochist Mugus (Lat: Masocosii): Highly ritualistic and possibly most stupid of genus after 'The Damned'. Loves to be slapped and keeps coming back for more pain. Highly sought after by collectors.

:yikes:

The Photogenic Mugus (Lat: Galleriicum): Lad/ladette who sends photographs on request. Utterly shameless and happy to accomodate such embarassing poses that would even make a centrefold model blush. Often found sporting strange costumes.

Rolling Eyes

The Phoney Mugus aka Phone Lad (Lat: Cellicum): Insists on talking to his mark on the phone before going anywhere.

Embarassed

The Date Mugus a.k.a Ladette (Lat: Bustii): Young, lonely, desperate, horny, nubile, gorgeous young lass just dying to meet you, her hero: In fact a 50 year old fat bald man with really sweaty armpits, and breath like a dead rat has crawled down his oesophagus and died.

Golden Pith

The Safari Lad (Lat: Safariicum): Aimless moron who likes to travel to different countries and often visits the same location several times for no apparent reason. Usually to be found penniless, begging for a lift in some "Moto Pak" 1000's of miles away from home.

Ninja

The Hitman a.k.a Hitlad Mugus (Lat: Deathicum): Scammer who makes threats to kill, either as part of a scam or after they find out they have been baited. Mostly harmless unless you take their e-mails seriously, then you might be cowering under your bed.

puke

The Sick and the Needy Mugus (Lat: Desperandii): Either they or a family member is ill or dying/dead or generally needs you to help them out of a desperate situation, or both as the case may be.

Question

The Weirdo a.k.a Phobic Mugus (Lat: Nutsia): The Mugu flotsam and jetsam. Strange, affected and full of surprises.

The Artist (Lat: Scribblus) : Lads who send in drawings and artwork.

The Caught on Camera (Lat: Tubeicum) L Lads whos videos end up on the web for the perusal of the masses.

SPECIES
The Common
The Conference Call (Seminarus dulli): Common lad who invites you to attend a bogus conference.
The Blue Blood (Royalus dullii): Common lad who claims to be a prince or son of a deceased leader of his country.
The Loan Minnow (Loanus mortalicum): As it's you, he offers you the best loan ever!
The Fifth Columnist (Traitoria mortalicum): Lad who claims to be fighting against scam in his country.
The Donator (Contributus dullii): Common lad species who offers charitable donations to your charity.
The Craigslist Vermin (Craigus dullii): Very common overpayment scammer that plagues Craigslist.
The Jackpot (Lotteria dullii): Comon lad species who runs lottery/ prize fund scams.
The Cleaner (Scrubbus dullii): Lad who asks for $$'s to buy specialist cleaning solvents or spray to get the ink/paint/dust of the pile of cash he's just come accross.
The Phisherman (Pisces Dulli): Very common lad who sends out phishing e-mail, looking to hook bank account and other personal details.
The Banker (Bankeria dullii): Very common species who purports being a director/manager/employee of a bank that just happens to be giving away millions of dollars to complete strangers.
The Legal Vulture (Legalus dullii): Purports to be a barrister or lawyer linked to the bank or intitution with the cash fund.
The Act of God (Charitia dullii): Haiti/Tsunami/disaster appeal charity scammer.
The Papist (Popia dullii): Purports being a Bishop/Cardinal or ordained minister.
The Converted (Billgatesia dullii): Claims to be a born again philanthropist who wants to send you money to help your/his cause, perhaps related to the Death Bed Repentant (see Religious genus) but not actually dying .. yet.
The Orphan (Nulkinia dullii): Purports to being a needy young refugee stuck in a camp somewhere, but sitting on a huge inheritance from murderd parents. Annoyingly insists on calling you DAD or daddy.
The Soldier (Rambos dulii): Purports to be U.S military personnel based in Iraq/Afghanistan/Sudan who has just stumbled upon millions of dollars all packed neatly in boxes marked C/O Mr Saddam Hussain esq (deceased)
The Officer (Policia mortalicum ): Lad who claims to be police officer/law enforcement and you are marked as an Internet fraudster.
The Webmaster (Adminus mortalicum): Lad who supports his lame script with links, login sites, fake news etc.
The Best Buy (Salonus mortalicum): Offers goods such as gold jewelry for incredibly low prices.
The Pet shop (Animalia mortalicum): Lad who sells dogs, horses and other 'non-existent' animals.
The Trustee (Trustia mortalicum): Lad who supports his scripts with all kinds of certificates, validations and the dreaded RSOT.
The H4x0r a.k.a The Actor (Notmii mortalicum): Lad who sends emails from a hacked email account acting as the original owner.

Damned:
The Long Shot (Oddsagainstus tohellicum): Lad whos scripts might appeal to one in a billion.
The First Timer (Originus tohellicum): Lad who sends out scripts that are incomplete and still have template parts showing in capitals, that they can only have been a trail effort by a n00b scammer.
The Blinker (Surprisus yastrebicum): Lad who is taken unawares when you agree to a course of action you were supposed to reject, and it shows.
The False Memory (Rememberus windypopsia): Lad who is fazed/insulted by the topic of the ASEM he received but after a little prompting, pretends to remember sending it and responds accordingly.
The Little Pleader (Weepus thefaeicum): Previously baited lad who cannot fathom why he hasn't been successful up till now.
The Poor Excuse (Limpus tohellicum): A lad who comes up with such poor excuses, they would cause even more suspicion on his victims part.
The Tech Support (Supportus mortalicum): Lad who claims to be employee of Google/Yahoo and he want to verify your email account and password.
The Impersonator (Celebritia tohellicum): Lad who poses as a celebrity, especially one who has suffered a tradgey.
The Spendthrift (Pennywisus tohellicum): Lad who moans about spending their own cash.
The Twisted Mister (Rethinkia mortalicum): Lad changes his mind very easily after realising he made serious mistake.
The Advice Line (Advisus tohellicum): Lad who passes on advice about the best way to do things, or not, as the case may be.
The Gomer Athiest (Nulgomer tohellicum): Lad who denies the existance of Mr Gomer.
The Doubting Thomas (Disbelievia mortalicum): Lad who doesn't believe you, and is convinced you are joking. No matter what you say. Maybe he's smart?
The Hobbiest (Pastimeia tohellicum): Lad who details his characters hobbies and pastimes to aid credibility.
The Generic (Inclusivus tohellicum): Lad who pertains to work in an unspecified institution.
The Comedian (Laughus tohellicum): Lad who doesn't believe his own scripts and asks you not to laugh at them.
The Insufferable (Painsus yastrebicum): Smug and arrogant lad who makes boasts about his 'international reputation'.
The Forgetful (Memoria tohellicum): Scammer who forgets they have already sent you a script you have replied to. Then sends you a completely unrelated alternate script.
The Repeat Offender (Repeatus gadgeticum): Lad who keeps sending you the same scam script over and over.
The Bore (Borsus tohellicum): A lad whose scripts are so long and pointless that you fall asleep reading them.
The Virtuous (Moralus yastrebicum): Lad who stresses his magnanimity and decency in all his dealings with you and his belief in the rule of law, justice and equity.
The Dummy Spitter (Tantrumus yastrebicum): A lad who threatens to ditch you if you won't follow instructions.
The Bully (Hectorus tohellicum): Lad who thinks they can bully you into getting you to send the cash or to get out of providing trophies. But when slapped soon backs down.
The Slap Happy (Slapus kokoicum): Lad who provides a lot of funny remarks after being slapped pretty hard.
The Commun(al)ist (Kibbutzia tohellicum) : Belongs to a group of lads where everybody writes clumsy love letters from one character to one victim/baiter.
The Believer (Confidencia tohellicum): Lad who claims to believe your psychotic paranoid rant and asks what he can do to help.
The Metamorphasis (Baiterputtius tohellicum): Lad who you can manipulate into behaving like another scammer genus.
The Redundant (Redundantia tohellicum): Lad who says the same thing as many different ways as possible to make sure you understand.
The Naysayer (Negatus tohellicum): Nagative lad who won't comply with innocent requests for trophies.
The By-law (Boguslawia tohellicum): Lad who makes up bogus laws and uses them as excuses as to why they can't do stuff.
The Dude (Coolsus tohellicum): Lad who attempts to come accross as a cool hip dude. Calls you 'Bro', and then gets it completely wrong.
The Mistaken (Knowsus tohellicum): Lad who mistakes you as a fellow scammer and lapses into laddish.
The Unflappable (Calmus tohellicum): Scammer who isn't fazed at all with the replies you send even if they are crass and full of swearing.
The Swamped (Fullinboxia tohellicum): Lad who is subjected to a mass bait.
The Friend with Benefits (Sharesus mortalicum): Lad who is so ripe for trophies that he is shared with other baiters, turning him into massbait lad.
The Taxman (Taxus tohellicum): Lad who sends phishing e-mails claiming to be the tax man giving you a refund, as if that would ever happen
The Recycler (Greenus tohellicum): Lad who recycles hilarious scripts sent to them by baiters.
The D-Lister (Fansus tohellicum): Lad who claims they have a world wide fan club.
The Bromancer (Bloodus tohellicum): Lad who really wants you to be his/her closest and bestest buddy ever.
The "What's in a name" (Aptia tohellicum): Lad/Ladette who has a very apt name for what they are doing.
The Screen Printer (Printia gadgeticum): Lad who claims to supply T-shirts, posters or banners on request.
The Rhetorical (Asksus tohellicum): Scammer who asks rhetorical questions.
The Commodities Supplier (Supplia gadgeticum): Lad who makes or supplies various goods on request.
The Impossible (Nulchancus tohellicum): Lad whos script requirements are almost impossible to deliver.
The Developer (Buildius tohellicum): Lad who suggests you aid him in spending his milllions on developing business in 'his' home country.
The Insulted (Insultus tohellicum):Lads who respond with puerile laddish or true indignation to mass abuse baits.
The Returner (Comeagaini gadgeticum): Lad that tries again with you months after you first baited him
The Trunk Boi (Trunkus gadgeticum): Lad who sends you the photo of the two cash laden trunks (see my avitar).
The Al Capone (Gansteris tohellicum): Lad who claims to be, or to work for a big time gangster.
The 'Better late than Never' (Tardius tohellicum): Lad who wakes up to the fact he was baited months after you stopped baiting him.
The Undertaker (Mortalus tohellicum): Lad who claims they are acting on behalf of a close relative who has died some years previously
The Chutzpah (Insolencia yastrebicum): Scammer who urges you to be 100% honest in your dealings with them, as they are with you.
The Family Man (Kinia tohellicum): Keeps calling you "My Brother" or "Dear Sister", often used in a religious context.
The Sticky (Stikia wowwowicum): Annoying scammer who just won't leave the script.
The Good friend (Palia tohellicum): Scammer who insists on referring to you as his 'friend' several million times or just tries too hard to befriend you.
The Thriller (Christii tohellicum): Scammer whos scripts read like a blood fest of murder and death.
The Claim to Shame (Oscarus tohellicum): Lad who claims to have won an award or esteemed title. The true award goes to how lame the award is.
The Institutionally Confused (Confusis yastrebicum): Starts off claiming to be working in one institution or organisation, but then claims to be from somewhere else.
The Psuedo Baiter (Nulbaiterus tohellicum): Lad who claims to be a baiter, or claims to be able to resolve a former scam, catch the crooks, and return the loot, for a small fee of course.
The Little Piggy (Alanus tohellicum): Scammer who makes feeble excuses for why his account has been closed by Alan
The Understudy (Apprentus yastrebicum): A Lad who claims to be an individual that you've already baited, and ties himself in knots trying to fit in.
The Shame of West Point (Nulpattoni yastrebicum): Lad who pretends to be a General or other high-ranking officer, and falls woefully short.
The Poet (Rhymus tohellicum): Lad who sometimes slips into prose within his communications.
The Hero (Vallianti tohellicum): Lad who tells amazing stories of how he saved someones life.
The Crumb (Desperatia tohellicum): Scammer who gives up on getting his big cash wad after several if not hundreds of failed attempts, and begs for the crumbs off the plate.
The Oops (Accidentia tohellicum): Lad who you accidentally give real life information to, such as your cellphone number.
The Happy-go-lucky (Jollius yastrebicum): Lad who completely disregards his script as soon as you ask a question and lets you branch him out into a completely unrelated topic.
The Fakebook (Facebookus tohellicum): Scammer who has a fake facebook page for his character, or trawls Facebook for a mark.
The Premature Ejaculator (Ejaculatii tohellicum): Goes straight for the big money without the foreplay.
The Gomers Bitch (Gomerus tohellicum): A scammer who think he has been chopped by Mr Gomer several times.
The Old Friend (Palagania tohellicum): Scammer who RSVP's you months after you gave up on the bait.
The Steven Ladberg aka The Quentin Ladentino (Directoria tohellicum): Scammer whos scripts sound like a scene from an action movie. Probably watches too much U.S television.
The Randomizer (Randomus tohellicum): Sends out scam orders for lists of items that appear to be completely random hoping they might hit on at least one of them.
The Pen Pal (Pallia tohellicum): Scammer who continues to write to you even after they know the game is up.
The Confessor (Grassia tohellicum): Accidentally or purposefully owns up to being a scammer + criminal + scumbag.
The Giver of Gifts, aka the Trophy Machine (Goldenus tohellicum): A Lad who keeps on supplying trophies.
The Humanist (Humania nora): Forgets his scamming business when you send him some blurry nekked pics (and begs for more.)
The Changeling (Swapia tohellicum): Changes his name/appearance mid scam.
The Hermaphrodite (Bisexii tohellicum): Changes back and forth and without explanation between male and female, depending on what will help his scam best at that moment.
The Couch Potato (Slobia tohellicum): Incredibly lazy lads that often don't respond for a week and then give you a sob story that something bad happened to them (on the way to the Internet cafe I was attacked by a rabid goat).
The Rampant Inflator (Inflatia tohellicum): Offers sums in the billions rather than millions (of US$), suggesting that they will deliver the consignment to your door, in what, a juggernaught?
The Traditionalist (Samia nora): Does everything as your mentor predicted.
The Palaeontologist (Ancientius nora): Uses an ancient starter kit and/or character name.
The Realist (Realus nora): Asks you to wire ridiculously small sums of money (send $20 or the goat gets it).
The Nationalist (Nulsafarii nora): Anteithesis of the Safari Lad. Refuses to travel abroad even if there are huge monies to collect.
The Institutionalist (Agencia nora): Refers to institutions and government agencies such as UN, FBI, CIA, WHO as proof his scams are legitimate.
The Poor Businessman (Nulbizia tohellicum): Asks for stupidly large amounts in his script but halves and quarters these amounts every time you complain.
The Medic (Medicia tohellicum): Purports being a medical doctor/nurse/surgeon.
The F.I.B (Interpolia tohellicum): Purports being a law enforcement/secret service (Often turns up after a fellow scammer has just been arrested)
The AutoBiographer (Biogus tohellicum): Sends you his bogus life history, complete bullshit else wise.

Uneducated/De-educated
The Personal Greeting (Greetus illiteratus): De-educated lad who's greeting is slightly too personal.
The Record Producer (Watermania iliteratus): De-educated lad who claims to be a music producer who has worked with some of the worlds top acts, and has recording studios worldwide. His C.V is often to be found wanting.
The Amnesiac (Forgetia lliteratus): Regularly forgets his characters' names
The 'Straight to the Point' (Ipsus mortalicum) : Lad who inadvertantly supplies you with his I.P details in the subect of his e-mails, saving you the effort in finding them out.
The Googler (Searchia lliteratus): Lad who researches his scam on a search engine, and then cut's n pastes his new found knowledge into his e-mail replies. Usually without any understanding of what he's talking about.
The Temporally Challenged (Chronus yastrebicum) : Lads who get out of sync with their dates.
The TLD (Domainia lliteratus): Lad who's e-mail top level domain is far removed from the country he is supposed to be e-mailing us from.
The 007 (Bondus lliteratus): Desperate FIB scammer lad who thinks F.B.I agents have a licence to kill, and have it printed on their ID to remind them
The Paint Job (Cutpastia lliteratus): Uses windows paint to put his rubbbish false ID together.
The Rushed (Hurrius lliteratus): Writes e-mails with really long subject lines but short incoherent content.
The Schizophrenic (Schizophrenia mortalicum): Name of the lad differs from name in the email account (John Smith using email [email protected])
The "Scammers Without Borders" (Globalicum thankingarthurus): Lad who claims to have contacts everywhere, even in peopleless lands such as Antartica.
The Honourable (Yourhonouria lliteratus): Lad who calls his baiter by his proper title, Your Lordship or Your Honour.
The Minimalist (Nulcontentia fattersaimensis): Uses a very short and pointless script.
The Titled (Majoria illiteratus): Self important scammer who gives their character over inflated titles, often completely messing them up.
The Pidgin (Nulanglica lliteratus): Scammer who makes excuses for his terrible English (often claiming that someone else had picked up the phone when we all know it was him)
The Gormless (Dimwitia yastrebicum): A Lad who asks really really really dumb questions...
The Self-Sabotager (Messupia yastrebicum): Lad whose misprints, especially with money, make him look foolish.
The Financially Challenged (Nulnumerus maninblackicum): Lad who makes up their own exchange rates.
The Spelling Bee Dropout (Nulspellus lliteratus): Lad who repeatedly makes the same spelling mistake even when corrected in your replies.
The Genetically Confused (Nulsexia lliteratus): Lad who cannot determine if you are man or a woman and goes for both options in his replies.
The Ignorant (Ignoramus lliteratus): Ignores your carefully worked and worded first script reply completely, and sends you a badly doctored second script.
The Metaphor (Analogia lliteratus): Lad who attempts to use clever metaphors or analogy in their posts but gets it utterly wrong.
The Speechless (Dumbus mortalicum): Lad of limited words who writes really short replies to your carefully worded baits.
The Pluralist (Majusculus lliteratus): Lad who pointlessly capitalises the first letter of every single word in his script in an attempt to make it look more formal.
The Old School (Telexus lliteratus): Lad who hasn't got to grips with new technology used within the banking sector and asks for a 'Telex copy' of the bank transfer.
Maybe It's Because He's A Londoner (Cocknia yastrebicum): A Lad who believes that every part of the UK (and some other places not in the UK) is inside London.
The Atlas (Nulgeographia lliteratus): Lad who claims to be living in a city/town that doesn't exist in the country he claims he is from. Might have trouble finding the Western Union then.
The Pleonasmist (Superfluousia mortalicum):Uses terms which are obviously redundant .. ($1000 one thousand U.S american dollars)
The Chemist (Chemicalia lliteratus): Lad who makes up their own chemical compound names .. chlomiclox?
The Sheltered (Secludia lliteratus): Lad who just doesn't fathom obviously contrived baiter character names made up from references to sexual organs, and responds with full gusto.
The Cut & Shut (Snippia thankingarthurus): Lad who replies to your ASEM with what is clearly a variation of his script, which just doesn't quite fit.
The Introducer (Familiarus lliteratus) : Lad who believes that a superfluous or over-familiar introduction to his scam mails is what is required to gain instant favour with his victim.
The Dr. Do-little (Zoologia lliteratus): Lads who talk to the animals, walk with the animals, grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals.
The Over-Confidentiality Agreement (Assuria GomerPyleus): Lad who attempts to assure us with a confidentiality agreement he has copied from somewhere else, and has no relation whatsoever to the rest of his script.
The Subjector (Formatinterruptus ragamania): Lad who sends e-mails with Subject line only and no content.
The Show Off (Bigshotus technomanceria): Lads who really love to show off their English skills by writing really long-winded letters with as many long words as they can possibly cram in. But the grammar and/or spelling still sucks.
The De-educated (Dumbus lliteratus): Scammer who has been educated to use certain terms in their scam e-mails that make no sense, by a baiter. Usually has little knowledge of colloquial English.
The Elaborator (Capitalia lliteratus): Every time an abbreviation is used, he also spells it out in capitals, W.H.O (WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION)
The Check book (Stubia lliteratus): Spells out all monetary values in capitals. Probably related to the Elaborator. $1000 (ONE THOUSAND U,S DOLLARS)
The Caps Lock On (Capitalia lliteratus): A scammer who mostly types in capitals for added urgency/emphasis
The Under-Estimator (Notfaria lliteratus): Completely underestimates things like weights, measures and distances in his scam e-mails.
The Uninformed (Thickus lliteratus): Really doesn't know much does he.
The Undecipherable (Nonsensia lliteratus): Completely unintelligible e-mails seem like the random imaginings of a demented mind.
The Cryptologist (Cryptus nora): Sends you letters that even your mentor can't understand.
The Ludite (Nultecia lliteratus): Has such limited technical knowledge that it's easy to tag him along on imagined computer problems.
The Lost in Translation (Babelicia lliteratus): Lads who rely on Babelfish. (men who count on the Babelfish) - Try it, English to French then French to English
The Moniker (Homophonia lliteratus): Lad who has a strange sounding and often very funny character name.
The Invoice of Unreason (Invoicia yastrebicum): Lads who don't get the idea of an invoice and confuse it with a receipt.

Self Baiter
The Going Going Gone (Gonaria yastrebicum): Lad who keeps saying he's going but keeps coming back for one last insult.
The 'New Me' (Lostboxia persistia): Lad who has had their e-mail account closed by yahoo/gmail/hotmail for scamming and then sends you e-mails from another account which looks like the first address but has had one character changed, as if you wouldn't notice.
The TMI (Truthus persistia): Self baiting fool who actually puts truthful and painful answers into his returned appication forms.
The Ping Pong (Delayus megabanditicum): Lad who bounces us between several of his characters over a period of time, to cause frustration and break our will (if we were a true victim). Also perhaps as a delaying tactic while he deals with another victim, or even to simulate the 'red tape' people come accross in a real business transaction.
The Slow Banker (Stallus Popiejopieicum): Insanely slow-working bankers who take ages to e-mail you after the main lad has referred you, and even longer to process their own duff forms.
The 'Not Much Going For Him' (Hopelessia thankingarthurus): Lad who seems to reply to just about anything he recieves, regardless to how mindless it is, and laps up anything you feed him.
The Slow Burner (Tiptoeus persistia): Lad who doesn't ask for the cash straight out and attempts to lure his victim in slowly gaining trust.
The Attacher (Paperclipia mortalicum): Lad who attaches his script in file (.doc, .pdf, .txt) instead of writing it to avoid spam filters.
The Safe Cracker (Securitia persistia): Lad who gets farmed around all the fake security sites to get his MTCN, and keeps trying to get in till his fingers bleed.
The Prepared (Toilus mortalicum): Lad who is always working his scam and replies to your e-mails in good time, even on a Sunday.
The Eaten (Baitedus gadgeticum): A lad who carries on with the scam attempt, even after seeing it on Eater.
The Well-informed (Intelligica mortalicum): Has great knowledge of baiters and baiters world probably been baited before, but still won't learn.
The Enmeshed (Nettedus yastrebicum): A Lad who's totally caught up in the baiter's counter-story and clearly believes in its reality, to the extent that he accepts every twist and turn as if it's real. Most if not all long baits have this type of Lad in it.
The Sandtimer (Ancientia yastrebicum) : A lad who has become so Enmeshed that the bait keeps on going past the twelve-month mark.
The Quizmaster (Paxmanus persistia): Repeatedly asks pointless questions one after another with all the answers being 'yes'.
The Highly Competitive (Competitia thankingarthurus): The lad who repetitively asks you if you are in correspondance with other scammers, warns that these outside dealings could jeopardise your fund and finally panics every time another person is mentioned, even if you never mentioned any other lads or scams.
The Faithful (Persistia persistia): Keeps coming back for more punishment, even more lowly that before.
The Patience of Job(e) (Patiencia persista): A scammer who waits for ages (up to several months apparently) for his mark to complete some task, or just to make sure his mark remembers he is around. Quite rare to find a scammer with a 'virtue'. With a little pushing they might turn into a 'confessor'.
The Detective (Columbos persistia): Checks up on every tiny detail your character sends him, addresses, bank details etc.
The Census (Censia persistia): Needs to know every possible detail about you often sends long forms (work in a kitty?)
The Inquisitive (Askagainia persistia): Asks a lot of stupid questions and makes splendid use of question marks??????
The Western Onion Rep (Mtcnii persistia): Able to cite in excruciating detail (again and again) the precise benefits and methods of using western onion over all other payment modes.
The Puzzler (Quizii persistia): Lads who fill out the fake International money request forms in full and complete the number and word searches. Often coming up with the correct answers.
The Pessimist (Downii persitia): Keeps sending you e-mails saying 'You are messing me about .. send the money .. I know you are messing me about .. send the money now .. I know you are mess ..."
The Novelist (Novalia persistia): Sends you off script e-mails that you can't be bothered to read because of their length.
The Repeater (Agania persistia): Keeps telling you to do a specific action multiple times.
The Orator (Oratorii persistia): Writes off script e-mails in such formal language, it's as if they are making speeches to the Roman senate.
The Legalist (Legalus persistia): Wastes time by dictating that you contact his lawyer/barrister to complete the transaction. Usually himself on another e-mail address.
The Oga's Bitch (Oversia persistia): Won't do anything that might upset his Oga, especially getting his bank account closed. This ties him up when you insist on bank accounts.
The Techie (Techia persistia): A more highly evolved Mugu species that uses technology in his scams, e.g. adding links for you to inadvertently click on in his emails that capture user details.

Religious:
The Hotline to God (Fastus godhicum): Lad who would have us believe that fasting and prayer would give you reliable e-mail contacts.
The Good Christian (Shoppus godhicum): Religious lad who must confess illegal acts he has observed due to being a devout christian, and shops other scammers, providing a list of dodgy names to watch out for (including Queen Elizabeth)
The Preacher (Sermonus Toddbowmania): Lad who preaches lengthy multi-faith based sermons in bad English about salvation within his scripts, only to hit you with a donation request at the end.
The Father Confessor (Confessus godhicum): Religious lad who takes confessions. Say 20 Hail marys before you send the cash.
The God Botherer (Pestia godhicum): Lad who would refer to god in answer to any question, or any eventuality.
The Heretic (Convertus yastrebicum): A lad who supposedly converts to your religion, but reneges on the deal with his new God.
The Mary Magdalene (Magdelenus mortalicum): Lad who always cares about Jesus's body.
The Inviter (Joinus godhicum): Evangelical lad who asks you to join his church for your salvation, and his wealth obviously.
The Religiously Confused (Allahicum godhicum): Isn't sure if they are Muslim or Christian, flip flops between either depending on their victim.
The False Prophet (Comeagania godhicum): Claims to be a prophet or seer.
The Holy Mother of God (Matricia godhicum): Calls themselves 'Mother', usually childless?, possibly has had some contact with missionaries at an early age.
The Evangelist (Evangelistia godhicum):Peppers his emails with religious aphorism ("with god all thinks possible") and Bible verses, even after you've told him you are an atheist.
The Plagiarist (Copium godhicum): An 'Evangelist' who also cuts and pastes text from legitimate church web sites.
The Should be Secular Humanist (Prayus godhicum): Lad who annoingly prays for his and your health and wealth at every convenience.
The Juju (Witchia godhicum): Scammer who claims to be able to cure all your ailments through African spiritual healing, for a hefty up front fee of course.
The Death Bed Repentant (Ohmii godhicum): Dying scammer who has turned to god and decided to send all their money to you.
The Voodoo (Haitii godhicum): Occult obsessed lad who thinks 'curses' actually do something.

Sick and the needy:
The Immigrant (Migrantia desperandii): Hapless orphan scammer who wants you to help them relocate to your country.
The Twins (Picies mortalicum): Lad who writes as two related people at the same time. Usually brother and sister in orphan/begging scams.
The Child (Feebleus desperandii): Bothersome orphan scam lad who wants somebody that will take care of him. Pick a relative.
The Lazarus (Raisus desperandii): At death's door, usually with cancer (or even worse double cancer!) in first email; miraculously recovers after you get him off script.
The Zombie (Jasonus desperandii): Rare inbreed of the Lazarus and the Voodoo; scammer who comes back to life but stays dead in character.
The Inflicted (Nulsickia desperandii): Has some rare and unexplainable disease they have invented for the purpose of the scam.
The Cardiac Arrest (Cardia desperandii): Unfortunately can't do what you asked him to do due to a sudden health crisis.

The Weirdo or Phobic:
The Mynah Bird (Mimicus yastrebicum): A lad who starts using your slang (especially terms you borrowed from a TV show).
The Androphobe (Fearsus nutsia): Lad who is afraid of men, and male 'parts'.
The Hypocrite (Acusus nutsia): Lad who accuses 'us' of being a scam artist.
The Midwife (Pregnantus nutsia): Lad who enquires if you are with child to explain your mental problems.
The Misogynist (Misogunia yastrebicum): A Lad who displays a hatred of, or disdain for, women.
The Moaner (Gripeia nutsia): Lad who whines to you about his own country, it's debt and corruption problems.
The Psychologist (Neuroticus nutsia): Lad who makes comments about our characters sanity.
The Naughty Vicar (Kinkius nutsia): Dirty minded Pastor who would like to get evangelical in your 'holy heaven'.
The Medium (Spiritualistia nutsia): Lad who believes he can speak with (or e-mail) the dead.
The Lesbian (Lesbia nutsia): Ladette (or Victor/Vicoria Lad) who offers to have their way with your wife.
The Mrs Jones (Bachelorus nutsia): Lad who stresses that he is not having an affair with your wife or girlfreind.
The Manipulator (Backstabbus kokoicum): A lad who tries to be on both sides of fight that both your characters have had and sympathsizes by putting the opposing character down.
The Instructor (Gidus mortallicum): Lad who sends you surprisingly useful information from the web, such as instructions on how to make things e.g. lightsabers.
The Hydrophobic (Aquaticus nutsia): Budding full immerison baptism lad who squeals at the sight of water, and tries anything to get out of getting wet.
The Petname Generator (Partnerus kokoicum): A lad who calls you "My Princess" or "My Baby" as if you are her/his boyfriend/girlfriend
The Matchmaker (Matchus kokoicum): Lad who tries to set you up with a guy/gal if you are single.
The Prude (Nulcursi yastrebicum): A Lad who doesn't like even mild expletives.
The Prickly (Haughtius yaslrebicum): a sub-species of the Prude - a Lad who doesn't take to mild insults.
The OCD (Dementius mortallicum): Repeats one word all over, just to show how serious he is. Often combined with "Ok" after each sentence (seems to be a combination of The Yes man and The Repeater)
The Victor/Victoria (Victoria yastrebicum) :Lad who changes a script to be from "the only daughter of..." but forgets to amend the male references elsewhere in the script.
The Clown (Crusti nutsia): Lad who has the same name as a circus clown.
The Self Degrading (Degradus yastrebicum): Lad who makes racist statements about his own countrymen as evidence that his deal is legitimate and not a scam.
Mr Not Quite Coming Out (Closetia yastrebicum): Repeatedly stresses his love for your male baiter persona... but denies being gay.
The Prophet (Prophetus nutsia): A scammer who fortells what you are about to do to them in your next bait. More than likely coincidence but you never know.
The Phoneyphobic (Nulcellia nutsia): Antithesis of the common phone lad, won't ever talk on the phone. Probably doesn't speak English well at all.
The Gomerite or Gomer-minion (Gomeria nutsia): Scammer who believes he has been recruited by The Gomerboyz.
The Gomerphobe (Nogomeria nutsia): Scammer so afraid of the Gomerboyz he refuses huge wads of cash.
The Infested (Infestus nutsia): Scammer who claims to have to move your cash fund to you quickly due to 'insect infestation' at the bank.
The Dave (Robotia nutsia): Lads who have e-mail conversations with computers and 'robots' like chen.
The Jumper (Suicidicum nutsia): Threatens to kill themselves if you don't SEND MONEY NOW!
The Technologist (Technocus nutsia): Lives in a mud hut in deepest Africa but knows all about the newest mobile phone models and other gadgets.
The Polygamist (Marrius nutsia): Proposes to all your characters.
The Linguist (Tourettus nutsia): Uses colourful language to reply to your insults.
The Bigot (Bigotus nutsia): Openly insults the disabled or other races
The Sleazebag (Chauvanus nutsia): Lad who drools over your female character and treats them with derision, especially if they are single.
The Agoraphobic (Nulgous nutsia): Scammer who won't go anywhere, even to the western union office. Almost impossible to get this lad on Safari, unwilling to travel any distance for anything, even cash!
The Homophobe (Nulbenda nutsia): Scammer who hates male gays, or any reference to homosexual acts.
The Xenophobe (Racius nutsia): Fears/hates other races.
The ChronoPhobic (Hurrius nutsia): Time centric lad who gets agitated with your delaying tactics, and tells you that you are ruining his whole life.
The Philosopher (Ponderii nutsia): "Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart" ???
The Homo Politicus or Zóon Politikón (Politicus nutsia): Has some strange political theory they would like you to espouse.
The Visitor (Visitus nutsia): Keeps promising to come and stay with you when the transaction is finalised. As if it is a reward.
The Drama Queen (Badactia nutsia): Types just like he speaks when upset, including words like NOOOOOO!!!!! and AWAWAWWA!!!! and OOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!!
The Yes Man (Okia nutsia): Ends every sentence with 'OK' for no apparent reason.
The Freudian (Pervertus nutsia): E-mails little pervy feelings they have about their mothers, animals and other relations
The Anarchist (Troddonus nutsia): Is always being crushed by some form of 'the man', be it government, the U.N or the local hotel manager.
The Paranoid (Paranoia nutsia): Chopped and in fear of being chopped again. Can't believe someone has taken his hard earned cash and sees assassins everywhere.

Safari Lad:
The Veteran Traveller (Veteranii thankingarthurus): Lad who fondly reminisces on the safari you took him on and the trouble you put him through.
The Trans-Africa Traveller (Refugii yastrebicum): A lad who claims to be a refugee from Sudan who's ended up in Ghana.
The Travel Partner (Ticketus moutonblancus): Safari Lad who insists you meet half-way around the globe so he can travel with you and meet you in person.
The Indiana Jones (Adventurus safariicum): Particularly adventuresome safari lad, who may often travel to war zones in search of the fabled treasure of WIMP.
The Arrival Lobby Greet Service (Whenicum safariicum): Often found hanging around some grotty airport for a non-existent person to show up, holding a card with the name "MRS. KANYE TOSSMEOFF"
The Weary Traveller (Spentus safariicum): A failed Safari lad, detained by authorities, at "Your International Airport."
The Sacrifice (Ritualus safariicum): Safari lad who is scared of travelling lest he be ritually killed for body parts (also Weirdo/Phobic)

Date:
The Lovelorn (Heartbreakus bustii): Forlorn love scam lad who claims he cries himself to sleep at night 'over you' ... if only he knew.
The Easy Date a.k.a The Slut (Slutia bustii) : Date scammer who really doesn't care who he/she goes with.
The Princess into Frog (Morphus bustii): The first letter is a romance-type come-on, but it soon segues into a regular orphan scam.
Miss 3rd World Contestant (Cinderellia bustii): The refugee who also happens to be a beautiful young girl in designer clothes, and lets you know it with large amount of photographs.
The Gayman (Homosexia bustii): A guyman who runs homosexual dating scams.
The Wanker (Limpus bustii): Cannot cybersex to save his/her life ("i will kiss you all over and suck my cock like ic cream")

Masochist:
The Abused (Profania brainiacus): BIG lover of abuse, loves to be verbally whipped into submission and comes back for more.
The Melonhead (Crashus masacosii): Likes to race in soap box derbys wearing large items of fruit as crash helmets.
The Accident in the Dairy (Milkus masacosii): Likes to bathe in milk and eggs.
The Acrobat (Jugglia masocosii): Often found juggling a fish, a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine and seven eggs whilst standing on a goat.
The Daredevil (Darus masacosii): Gains pleasure from setting their legs on fire.
The Waterboi (Drownii masacosii): Takes part in baptisms (full immersion)
The Loam Lad (Minerus masacosii): Likes to stand in recently-dug holes
The Thor Head (Serpentis masacosii): Menaces a chalk snake with a hammer
The Engineer (Dipperus masacosii): Designs massive roller-coasters
The Work of Art (Tattooii masacosii): Masochist who will go as far as getting his newly found benefactors name tattooed on his body.

Photogenic:
The Round Round Get Around (Popupagainus galleriicum): Photogenic lad whos mugshots appear in several baits.
The Drag Artist (Lipstickus galleriicum): Photogenic lad who makes up and gets in drag for the camera
The Sadist (Torturus galleriicum): Lad who offers to send you more of his truly awful semi-naked pictures ... even for the sake of denying trophies .. enough is enough.
The Model (Posus galleriicum): Lad who thinks he has a glittering modeling career ahead of him and sends you his semi nude modeling shots.
The Goatherder (Bleatus galleriicum): A particularly rural scammer who is happy to pose with livestock, preferably simulating rear entry.
The Sports Fan (Ballus galleriicum): Poses as a ball player .. "I only play with Le Coq"
The "Jesus H" (Christus galleriicum): Lad who poses the crucifixion of Christ, or dresses up as our dear Lord.
The Smelly (Pongius gallericum): Lads who smother themselves in fish guts for our entertainment.
The Henchman (Mypalus galleriicum): Lad or ladette who poses alongside a baited lad in their photos.
The Unknown Stuntman (Stuntus bombardicum): A masochist lad who performs bizzare stunts for the camera .. "*that made Eastwood look so fine*"
The Morris Men (Hankiwaverus gadgeticum): Lads who dress up like Morris men for group photographs.
The "Whats up Doc!" (Bunnibuggeris galleriicum): Lad who sends photos of themselves attempting rear entry on some unwilling Leporidae
The No ID'er (Nulidus galleriicum): Lad who sends in very lame ID,
The Celebrity (Famus galleriicum): Lad who sends fake ID that looks uncannily like a known celebrity
The Egyptian a.k.a The TWAT (Pyramidia galleriicum): Lad who sends pictures of the cement bag pyramid he has just spent weeks and his own cash building.
The Pharmacist (Quackus tohellicum): Lad who espouses poor medical knowledge, or asks you to quit smoking for your health, even though you have told him you are dying of cancer. Probably worried you might 'snuff it' before you can send the cash.
The Denim (Jeanus galleriicum): Lad whos sends photos of himself in jeans that look so old and baggy, that even fashionistas would think that there were just one too many worn patches and holes in them.
The Viral (Viralus galleriicum): Scammer who sends in video of themselves being most ignorant, and gets a zillion hits on Face-Tube
The Classicophile (Nulbuffus galleriicum): Scammers who hold up signs with quotes from popular T.V or film. Obviously not having seen them, and having little knowledge of popular culture, they are non the wiser (a bit like my dad).
The Super-Zero a.k.a Ladman (Comicicum galleriicum): Lad/ladette who likes to pose in a herolike stance for pictures whilst sporting pink body paint, red underwear outside of their trousers, and an old plastic bucket with no eye holes on their head.
The "Want fries with that bait" (Burgeria galleriicum): Lad/ladette who poses for fake commercials holding a tray of cold burgers.
The Nudist (Nulclothia galleriicum): Lad who happily poses nude, often with partner, also nude. Often has trouble achieving a full erection.
The Frankenstein (Monsteria galleriicum): Lad who sends photographs of his body but someone elses 'out of proportion' head or vice-vera.

.. Full List on the Genus page .. http://members.419eater.com/~wowwow/Scammer_Genus.html

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:23 am

The Greeter: Constantly says "hello" during a call

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:06 am

Stuck in a Groove; phone Lads whose favourite line is "Listen, listen, listen listen listen."
The Invoice of Unreason: Lads who doesn't get the idea of an invoice and confuse it with a receipt.
Lost in Translation: Lads who rely on Babelfish.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 12:51 pm

Two I've encountered so far:

The Detective - Checks up on every tiny detail your character sends him, addresses, bank details etc.
The Self-baiter - Wastes his own time by insisting on ID/phone numbers/anything else you don't give him again and again and again and again and again... etc.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:14 pm

The Visitor: Keeps promising to come and stay with you when the transaction is finalised. As if it is a reward.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:28 pm

The Protector: Sent to kill, but falls in love instead. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:34 pm

These are not rare but rather typical:

The Minimalist: Uses a very short script.
The Paleontologist: Uses an ancient starter kit and/or character name.
The Legalist: Asks you to contact his lawyer/barrister.
The Institutionalist: Refers to UN, FBI, CIA...
The Traditionalist: Does everything as your mentor predicted.
The Novelist: Sends you letters that you can't read because of their length.
The Cryptologist: Sends you letters that even your mentor can't understand.
The Technologist: Lives in a mud hut in deepest Africa and knows all about the newest mobile phone models and other gadgets.
The Commun(al)ist: Belongs to a group of lads where everybody writes clumsy love letters from one character to one victim/baiter.
The Humanist: Forgets his scamming business when you send him some blurry nekked pics (and begs for more.)
The Conversationalist: Calls you every now and then just to ask how you are.
The Therapist: Listens patiently when you talk about your character's personal problems.
The Polygamist: Proposes to all your characters.
The Realist: Asks you to wire ridiculously small sums of money.
The Nationalist: Refuses to travel abroad even if there are huge monies to collect.
The Linguist: Uses colourful language to reply to your insult.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:33 pm

Fantastic guys: Looks like the list is going to be rather long.
How about.

The Undecipherable:

Quote:

Hello

I do not go start without me to excuse for English badly cleans because I do not understand that very well.

We need to caterogrise these further: Often your pet scammer may be a mixture of genus.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:35 pm

Quote:

The Realist: Asks you to wire ridiculously small sums of money.

Aw these are sweet, I want one. I might even send some money Wink

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:55 pm

Wowwow, the only way to do that is that you send an empty envelope to your lad and make it look as if it had been opened in the post office. This works nicely with bigger sums as well. When the lad cries he didn't receive any money, you tell him, he is a LIAR who just wants you to send more. Very Happy

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:02 pm

Thats a very good idea. How about an empty cardboard box with a rat hole Smile

Sorry a rat had eaten the laptop I sent you. I've got a few Pc boxes lying around, won't cost much to send. I wonder if they'll get arrested trying to beat up the postman.
Smile

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:04 pm

The Act of God: Haiti/Tsunami charity scammer
The Papist: Pertains to be a Bishop/Cardinal or ordained minister.
The Converted: Pertains to be a born again philanthopist
The Faithful: Keeps coming back for more punishment, even more lowly that before.
The Paint Job: Uses windows paint to cut and paste his ID together.
The Chopped Paranoid:

Quote:

Kindly don't send any money to anybody expect I instruct you and also do not contact those people again saying they are connected to me and kindly forward me all the message they sent to you including their contact email and phone number.
Right now the cash are deposited in a security firm in UK but they can deliver the cash to your door step in Saudi Arabia if you want it this way.
The company in UK will be coming to deliver the cash to you through a courier company here in UK as soon as you provide your address for the delivery.
I try to open the attach files you sent to me but I could not view it may be you re-send it again.
Please do not contact anybody again expect me on here because they are many hijackers on internet.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:13 pm

Wowwow, a PM sent.

Edit: 2 PM's sent.

Baiting Guru Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 5727

My personal favorite -

The Drama Queen: Types just like he speaks when upset, including words like NOOOOOO!!!!! and AWAWAWWA!!!! and OOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!!

The DanMan: Everytime he goes to do something he gets beaten up (according to him), and is unable to complete the task. Named after one of our all time favorite scammers, "Dan", who has been beaten up and attacked dozens of times, always at the start of a safari.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:14 pm

wowwow wrote:

I might even send some money Wink

Monopoly money? Wink

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:20 pm

Technomancer wrote:

wowwow wrote:

I might even send some money Wink

Monopoly money? Wink

I think I've got some Quality street golden pennies left over from Xmas I might send.. even the dog won't touch them .. sticks to the roof of his mouth Smile

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:30 pm

The Voodoo: Thinks 'curses' actually do something.
The Persistant Pessimist: Keeps sending you e-mails saying 'You are messing me about .. send the money .. I know you are messing me about .. send the money now .. I know you are mess ..."
The Changeling: Changes his name/appearance mid scam.
The Biographer: Sends you his bogus life history, complete bullshit elsewise. *Note he 'bagged' his first degree .. pffftt ..

Quote:

To be brief, I bagged my first degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Nigeria, nsuka in the year 1966.however I worked with a German construction firm till the wake of 1979 when I went in for my master's degree. Life to me then was at a stand still and hectic because I had to cater for my wife and newly born baby. I got married to miss Cynthia in 1968, a graduate of agriculture and forestry. She works presently with the Nigeria national agricultural research here in Lagos.

.. blah de friken blah (this went on for pages)

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:18 pm

The Wanker - cannot cyber to save his life ("i will kiss you all over and suck my cock like ic cream Shocked

)
The Philosopher - "Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart" <- So that's why my marriage failed ... no rocks. Rolling Eyes

The Amnesiac - regularly forgets his characters' names
The Jumper - threatens to kill themselves if you don't SEND MONEY NOW! (I'd pay to see that Very Happy

)
The Western Onion Rep - able to cite in excruciating detail (again and again) the precise benefits and methods of using western onion over all other payment modes.
The Red Throated Vlad - this warbler needs to pay others to make them sing in English.

Now that I think about it, there are many species of lad ... and we haven't really touched vlads in any great detail. All of this talk of lad biology has got me all tingly. Twisted Evil

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:15 am

I couldn't think of an appropriate genus for H3cturd; I think he is a breed unto himself. Ergo, genus "H3cturd of the funny hat." Laughing

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:36 am

H3cturd does sound like a rare .. put him in a jar of ether then stick a pin in him Smile

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:41 am

How could I possibly forget to add this genus ...

The Sub-Saharan Nurse Nancy Red-Faced Gullible Bitch - any lad who falls under NN's tender ministrations. (Sorry NN ... please don't beat me. Please beat me)

wowwow wrote:

H3cturd does sound like a rare .. put him in a jar of ether then stick a pin in him Smile

I like the whole idea of a lad sticking a pin in himself. Another trophy perhaps?

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:54 am

The Cardiac Arrest: Unfortunately can't do what you asked him to do due to a sudden health crisis.

Quote:

I am the person who owns the safe firm in UK but right now on sick bed for my heart surgery due to my heart failure.
I personally put Mr. Van in charge of the safe firm since I am not
capable of been at office.

The Uninformed: Really doesn't know much does he.

Quote:

How come for me to meet you in where i don't know.no room number and no phone number to get you even if i come to Crown plaza how may i identify you?

The Lazy Ludite: 3 word e-mail, typed in caps,

Quote:

CHECK YOUR ATTACH

.. No attach Sad

The Should be Secular Humanist:

Quote:

Thank God you are an accountant and understood everything.

... I'm actually not and no I didn't.

The Sports Fan: Thinks of nothing but ..

Quote:

i will get back to you laker

The ChronoPhobic: ..... tick tock arghhhh...

Quote:

because delay is dangerous ok,

BTW, these are actual snippets from e-mails I've had, the good thing about scammers is you don't have to make this shit up Smile

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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:26 am

I've run across:

The Lazarus - at death's door, usually with cancer, in first email; miraculously recovers after you get him off script.
The Evangelist - peppers his emails with religious aphorism ("with god all thinks possible") and Bible verses, even after you've told him you are an atheist.
The Plagiarist - an Evangelist who cuts and pastes text from legitimate church web sites.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:57 am

Most of the taxa I come across have already been added. But there is one I encounter frequently that so far has not:

The Hermaphrodite - Changes back and forth and without explanation between male and female, depending on what will help his scam best at that moment.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:08 am

I'm a begginer at classification. I think 'The Sub-Saharan Nurse Nancy Red-Faced Gullible Bitch' is actually a species.

Quote:

In biology, the arrangement of organisms into a hierarchy of groups on the basis of their similarities. The basic grouping is a species, several of which may constitute a genus, which in turn are grouped into families, and so on up through orders, classes