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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

Hello to you all, I'm Al-Rahem and I'm obviously new here.
I found out about this site through a friend who said it was highly reccomended, if only for the lolz.
But what really got me to join was this email-

Quote:

Mon, 4 October, 2010 4:40:22 PM
MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU AND YOUR HOUSE HOLD.
...
From:
Mr Saeed Zongo <[email protected]>
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To:
[email protected]

I assumed you are in good health with your family.

I am Mr. Saeed Zongo I work as the Foreign Operations Manager with one of the international bank here in Burkina Faso. Although the world is very small place and hard place to meet people because you don't know who to trust or believe, but as I have developed the trust in you after my fasting and praying, i made up my mind to confide this confidential business suggestion to you.

There is an over due unclaimed sum of Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($9,200,000.00) in my bank, belonging to one of our dead foreign customers. There were no beneficiaries stated concerning these funds. Therefore, your request as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and release of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the Foreign Business Partner to the deceased.

On the transfer of this fund in your account, you will take 40% as your share from the total fund, 5% will be shared to Charitable Organizations while Motherless Babies homes, disabled helpless as the balance of 55% will be for me.

If you are really sure of your integrity, trustworthy, and confidentiality,
reply urgently and to prove that, include your particulars as follows.

please fill in your personal information’s as indicated below and as soon as i receive this information's below i will forward you a text of an application which you will fill and send to the bank for the claim of the fund as i will direct you on what to do.

Your name in full.......................... ........

Your country....................... ..................

Your age........................... ....................

Your cell phone......................... ...........

Your occupation.................... ...............

Your sex........................... ....................

Your marital status........................ ........

Best Regards,
Mr Saeed Zongo.

My private telephone number +226 78 53 54 27.

So this gave me a most cunning idea...
More soon!

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:34 am

Welcome to the site! Very Happy

You might want to remove your email address from the thread, the scammer could google it and end up here.

I always cry when I hear about motherless babies charities, though I'm more inclined to make a donation to a babyless mother charity... giggity giggity. Twisted Evil

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

evil_sheep wrote:

Welcome to the site! Very Happy

You might want to remove your email address from the thread, the scammer could google it and end up here.

I always cry when I hear about motherless babies charities, though I'm more inclined to make a donation to a babyless mother charity... giggity giggity. Twisted Evil

Don't worry, it's not my real adress. Nor does it appear on any of my emails.

Now, for my reply. (Cracks knuckles)=

Good day to you, Mr Zongo.

My name is Colonel Mohammed Al-Rahem and I am a security officer in the Afghanistan Millitary.
Recently, in a surprise strike on an insurgent stronghold in the deserts of the Hullabalooza region, we siezed several bank accounts, each containing millions of United States dollars, totalling to $35,365,782 $USD (thirty-five million, three-hundred and sixty-five thousand, seven-hundred and eighty-two United States dollars).

Normally, under these circumstances, the money would be placed in the National Afghan Treasury, but, due to the high levels of corruption in the Afghan government, I fear the money will go straight back to the insurgents.
To counter this however, I have devised a plan, which wil require splitting the funds into several private bank accounts. Unfortunately, I cannot transfer the entire sum into my own bank account, as the sudden deposit of such a large amount of money would arouse much suspicion from many government officials.

To compromise, I will split the funds, you will recieve 40% of the money, I will deposit 50% of the money into my own bank account in 5% chunks and donate the final 10% to charities in Afghanistan.

You seem to be a man who knows how to handle money and large-denomination transfers such as this, so I have chosen you especially.

Due to the nature of this operation, you must respond quickly, or else the money shall go back into the treasury and be lost.

I wish you luck.

Regards

Colonel Al-Rahem

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:36 pm

I don't think giving him a new script is a good idea...

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

Well I figured I could pull a fake 419 on the scammer. Plus, the several people I showed it to didn't find it believable.

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:36 pm

Hi Al-Rahem,

Your lad will know a format as soon as he sees it. He'll either just ignore it, recycle it, or if you are very lucky get back to you identifying himself as a lad and ask if you want to work together. But you could have saved the time and asked him that in the first place. Pretending to be a lad takes a bit time and you'll need to learn how lads talk and think before you can do that with any degree of success.

My suggestion, as this is your first time is to play along. Just mail him back with a simple "Thanks, please tell me more about this," will do for now.

If you manage to keep him on the hook for a month or two without giving yourself away or making him lose interest, then you can start to introduce your own spin on the relationship.

Take some time to read up on published baits while you are in contact with him and build up your knowledge base. There's no short cut to experience. Wink

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

@ windypops

Well, this is my first try at scam baiting, so thanks for the tips!

Still, if he ask me to work with him, that could lead to some interesting baiting opportunities right?

Trophy Videos · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:49 pm

Welcome to Eater! Your friend, whoever he is, has great taste in humor!
We do a lot of work here, that's the main thing, but we sure have fun doing it! Very Happy

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:51 pm

Al-Rahem,

Hey welcome aboard!! Check out eater university, all the stickies, and a mentor if inclined. There is a lot to learn, but you pick up on it real quickly. A lot of fun here!! Very Happy

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

Heh, thanks!

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 6

Bart Fargo wrote:

Al-Rahem,

Hey welcome aboard!! Check out eater university, all the stickies, and a mentor if inclined. There is a lot to learn, but you pick up on it real quickly. A lot of fun here!! Very Happy

I've had a quick sqwiz in the university and will get round to the sticky threads. I'll leave the mentor for now, see how much I can figure out myself before I go bothering someone.

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:50 pm

Welcome my good man

SlapHappy wrote:

but we sure have fun doing it! Very Happy

That's the main thing!

Baiting's a bit like stand up comedy. You'll have many times when your ideas/emails just won't work and you won't get a reply. Don't get down, take a look and reflect at what went wrong. Learn from these misses. Soon, after a while you'll get into the patter and rhythm of writing emails to hook the lads, then before you know it you'll have them off on safaris! Very Happy

Good luck squire

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