What do you consider a personal "win"?

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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:21 pm

Hello fellow baiters!

I'm quite new on the site, but have been lurking for quite awhile, and I'm currently in the middle of my first bait ( 2 months and counting Very Happy

). I fully expected the lad to catch on to me in the first couple of weeks, so it really was a pleasant surprise that I've not only kept him on the line, but also got a bank account sent off to Alan! Now with the help of Eater U and my awesome mentor, I'm going for another bank account and possibly a safari.

Now, I know any bait that wastes a lad's time is a bait well baited, and getting a piggy out of the deal is just the cherry on top, but I was wondering about the old timer's personal feelings about this (although anyone else feel free to chime in as well); what do you consider a 'win' in a bait? I realize answers probably vary from baiter to baiter, but what kind of bait makes you sigh in contentment, lean back and say "aaah....that was a good one"?

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:42 pm

My biggest "win" was the safari and tattoo I got from Mr. Grant (see sig line) Very Happy

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:14 pm

Welcome to Eater, Incubaiter! Glad you are here and hope you have fun with your baiting. Remember to always bait safe!

My daily wins are most of Shorty's emails. They make me laugh.

However, I would be lying if I said anything else but our lad getting arrested. Though it wasn't part of some plan and we really were just trying to have him spy and spook Shorty, the day that Bravo and I realized that I had been on the phone talking to James while he was really and truly getting arrested was priceless.

But then, Shorty getting the Gomer boyz tat is a pretty big win too.
And so was getting Shorty and Hector to safari together.

Oh I can't decide! Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

I'm just looking to waste their time and see how different things work out while I await my mentors return.

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:42 pm

Welcome to eater, Incubaiter. It looks like you need a Closed lad accounts

in your sig. Very Happy

Trophies are great and if an opportunity presents itself, I will try to get a photo or a safari or something but, for me, trophies are gravy. Since all baits end eventually (well, maybe not Hector and Shorty Laughing

) and very few result in safaris and such, I find it particularly satisfying when a lad gets so frustrated that he blurts out insults. Any bait where a ladblast earns a place in my sig line I consider a "win" because they make me laugh and I know I have done a good job on the lad.

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:57 pm

^^^ +1 on insults. When I get a lad so riled that he calls me a witch and curses me to "mensurate" till the end of my life, it's a good day!

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 4747

A week or so ago I posted a loan spam on this sites surplus section and on the scam warners site. The scammer responded saying the offer was legitimate he responded on both this and the warner site. He wouldn’t respond if what I did, didn’t hurt him.

Other rewards are getting a email or PM on the warner site from potential vic, who after talking to me are not vics. This seems to come in waves, though.

Also when I get a response from a mugu that angry, or incoherent. You know his graspe on sanity is slipping

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:48 pm

There have been a few baits that stand out. My first big catch was when i managed to get a lad to print a t-shirt with the text "ex-masturbator" on it. Then he sued me for not paying him and posting his photo on billboards all over Munich. Problem was that another baiter played the lawyer and i pulled all the strings. Oh and i had him believe one of my characters was Eminem.

Another one was when i safaried a lad to my home city and I together with a police friend took photos of him while he was there.
Also i safaried three lads to the same destination at the same time together with yet another baiter. That was fun as well, and quite hectic for a while. The three lads total mileage was more than one trip around the world

And my Indian TWAT lad just finished his third TWAT pyramid, that one is also a co bait. The first one was lost to a flood, and the second one he tore down which is against TWAT rules. So he had to redo it again. And he have also given us countless videos and photos of him doing all from giving food to poor to reading from the bible. And he also have a safari under his belt. So there have been a few memorable lads over time.

But what you got to remember is that those kind of baits involve hard work and hours and hours one the computer and often countless phone calls. And as you mentioned, there are different things that make different baiters heart tick a bit faster. Some love to make their lads do tattoos, some only cares for safaris. Yet other collect closed bank accounts or closed fake websites and have hundreds and hundreds of flags or piggys in their siggys to show for it.
Other interests can be random trophies or just the satisfaction to give their lads slaps for their incompetence.

But when it comes down to it all, every second a scammer spends with a baiter whether it is stranded in Abeche, filling forms, redoing a closed site or just writing a letter is a gain. Every second doing that is a second not spent with real victims.

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:58 pm

Getting one scammer on safari meet another one, who both are waiting for the same tour bus, and ringing them up at that point encouraging them to wait just a little longer, we´re doing all we can. I really owe Slaphappy and Wayne and redshoes17 one for holding my hand each time and calming me down when I was rolling on the floor laughing and often waking up in the middle of the night plain giggling.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:09 am

Hi Incubaiter, Smile

I cut my teeth on a hitlad. Don Gunshot. He was mass baited, but I seemed to hang on to him for some time. I scored rants which at first worried me but later I welcomed them. I even got my first piggy there. Cool

I found piggies were little challenge. I wanted more. Then Joe came along. My first inheritance scam. And a trophy.
Joe holding a sign, "Gull Label Do Fuss."
Dwatina , Brainiac and I tried for a safari. Joe just would not travel.

Joe stayed on for over a year. He is still contacting me. What really had me fall off my chair laughing was his attempt to convince me that his inheritance of $15.5m is legit. Hence the line in my sig, "Let GOD judge me if this is a trick Sir, this is a trick ". Rolling Eyes

His mistake is indicative of the carelessness inherent in rushing their emails. Again when he tried to persuade me that he was not after my character's money. "Sir, I do not send any money to me because i need it." Rolling Eyes

Personally I can not justify spending a lot of time to baiting, but what I do is directed at quality activity rather than quantity. Smile

Cheers

The Don Gunshot saga, My Thread, "Invite Help Hitlad"

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:34 am

I had a lad sh*t his pants so much he closed own his email account rather than deal with my psychotic niece character. That made me laugh.

Though my biggest win was my one and only safari. Lad claimed to be a big businessman, but he was offline for 28 hours (I think he hitch hiked). It would have been the moment he realised that he had travelled all the way to another country, and I wasn't going to it. He was offline for 28 hours going back as well.

Believe it or not, he wished me a happy new years last year!

ETA: Welcome to eater incubator Embarassed

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:42 am

My biggest win happened over at ScamWarners. I convinced a lady that she was the victim of a romance scammer - it took some research and lots of PMs but in the end she believed me.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:01 pm

Wow, all these stories are so awesome! Talk about inspiration for the future Smile

I honestly didn't think I'd be this excited on a "straight bait" (which I've heard some people find boring), I figured it would just be good to have a few practice runs to get the hang of it before the "fun stuff". But honestly, I've had so much fun with this lad over the past few months that I think I'd have fun no matter what. As you all say, the primary goal is wasting their time Very Happy

Thanks for the warm welcomes and good stories!

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:17 pm

^^^ most baits start as straight baits, so just wait where the bait is going.
For me it is always the biggest win when I have clear signs that the scammer is really believing my character - then his frustration will be maximized.
Neither the art I got from my lads nor my first safari can overcome the joy when the lad is calling the last time to tell me what a horrible person I am Twisted Evil

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:35 pm

Hmm, a personal win? .... lad suicide maybe .. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:40 pm

^^^ Shorty and Hectard might fulfill your dream. Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:36 pm

Incubaiter wrote:

what do you consider a 'win' in a bait?

Making a lad very very angry, or stranding one miles from home. See below
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:28 pm

Do enough baits, Incubaiter, and sooner or later you will have some good stories to tell, too. Very Happy

@Entomologist - "Don Gunshot" just might be my all-time fave lad name.

@internationalchrysis -

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he closed own his email account rather than deal with my psychotic niece character

That's awesome Laughing

Is there a thread on that somewhere? I'd love to read some of psycho-niece's emails.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:16 pm

Sitekilling related: My biggest win was when I earned my first trolley. 782 sites received their death sentence that day Very Happy

Scamwarners related: every near-vic we saved from sending money must be the biggest win we can accomplish.

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:43 am

Having a lad contact me, to ask me to tell his nearly romance vic to stop writing and abusing him, from a post in SW about him.

Very Happy

Not quite a Newb Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Posts: 79

...stringing along a lad for a month for $210. Laughing

...and then re- baiting him from the same email account a year later. haha.
Despite enjoying my current baits, that ^ up there is so satisfying to me.

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:24 pm

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"straight bait" (which I've heard some people find boring)

I primarily do straight baiting. As yet I have not found it boring because I know I am wasting their time.

What I find rewarding is making forms for Eater members who find them useful in their baits or making a phone call for someone for their bait -- oh, and also doing co-baits. Making plans and discussing where to go next with the bait with the person you are co-baiting with is fun.

Incubaiter wrote

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old timer's

Oh, gawd, wait til Pastor Frank reads that! <ducking out of the way>

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:21 pm

My most memorable straight-baiting win was when I drowned in a swimming accident in the Gulf of Benin (as related to the Lad by my secretary Maztour Beita), and the Lad (this after a 9-month bait) resurrected me with a similar-looking email addy, claiming he had been arrested, and contacted the secretary, pretending to be me.

He closed thus:

Quote:

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha here in jail I am crying like a he-goat.

Nothing better than a Lad who's gone mad...... Smile

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:06 am

Raga Man wrote:

@internationalchrysis - Laughing

That's awesome Laughing

Is there a thread on that somewhere? I'd love to read some of psycho-niece's emails.

Sure. "Mikey falls for the Ditz" can be found here:
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=191756

ETA: Here's the thread with the Original Frannypoo.. Sabrina was indeed in fine form Smile

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=169451

Hope you like,

Chrys

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:23 pm

I'm a simple soul and find straight baits give endless fun to baiter and lad alike. I've a simple script which requires many explanations before WU is even mentioned. And WU never works anyway.

I try for a piggy every time, but eventually agree to MG. My best has been six trips for my lad, but I aim for at least four. Then comes the introduction to Mr. Gomer and the inevitable chop. Barrister Gomer works well while superstitious lads really like my Satan Gomer character.

I bow to the masters of safari and trophy. But the frantic pleadings of a chopped lad never fail to make my day, even more when my second-wave characters put him/her through the same hoops.

Each to his own, and an anguished lad means a happy baiter! Very Happy

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