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Master of Master Baiters Joined: 28 Sep 2010 Posts: 923

What are some of the roles you have played in your letters back and forth to different lads? Just trying to get some ideas.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:24 am

Church characters are always popular. Upside with them are that you can make up any silly rule and just blame it on your church.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:24 am

Mostly I am a businessman manufacturing ball bearings, bollards & bingo supplies. Other times I am his drunk lawyer.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:50 pm

Hi Adda 717 , Smile

Reverend G (Gullible clergyman)
Mike hunt (purchasing Officer)
Simon F Air cargo administration
Tina, Secretary
Mr Gomer, Computer hacker, Thief, Dolla Choppa, Highly skilled in everything. Ringleader of large criminal organisation in Any country that the scammer is in. Twisted Evil

Mickey B Wealthy model in the Bahamas or Rio.
Doctor V Wealthy CEO of Medical Centre.

That's about it

Cheers Smile

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:36 pm

Businessman, alien, superhero, vicar, movie director, lawyer, detective, porn model... Anything is possible with the right lad. Wink

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:41 pm

Bad-tempered foul-mouthed Odin-worshipping photomodel; her brother in the Special Forces; her Romanian-born boyfriend; her hateful father; a priest and a priestess of Odin.

A retired US Marine Corps Captain.

A dyslexic tour operator.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 28 Sep 2010 Posts: 923

Yastreb wrote:

Bad-tempered foul-mouthed Odin-worshipping photomodel; her brother in the Special Forces; her Romanian-born boyfriend; her hateful father; a priest and a priestess of Odin.

All I can say is wow.......

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:15 pm

Obi Wan Kenobi,owner of the biggest Wookie ranch in Montana.My partner Han Solo had his arm ripped off by one recently.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 12 Jul 2011 Posts: 78

Lately I've been an average Joe that needs a loan and for some reason I just can't get my transfer fees to work for moneygram and western union.

Lads usually start getting real pissed on about their 4th time to moneygram!

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:55 pm

Yastreb wrote:

Bad-tempered foul-mouthed Odin-worshipping photomodel; her brother in the Special Forces; her Romanian-born boyfriend; her hateful father; a priest and a priestess of Odin.

Aah, so you are the one who have published those great scam baits over a Scamorama? Laughing

So far, I've been: Ornithologist, business founder and manager, scientific camp manager, brother in secret religious cult, old retired man, his son, and lately, highly successful hacker Mr. G0mer!

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

I tend to work a lot from my grumpy old roughneck but I am developing a younger female character and just opened an old spinster woman and a new Gman is being introduced!

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Dr Mike wrote:

Church characters are always popular.

That's my bread and butter, it's probably the best way to get into advanced baiting. For the first few stick to straight baiting, to get the hang of things.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:28 pm

Ex-Israeli spy, now deli owner who died during the bait and was resurrected.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:48 pm

Pastor Frank wrote:

probably the best way to get into advanced baiting.

So true. And even within a church, there are a whole gallery of characters to choose between. Try a High Inquisitor, or a Cardinal as supporting cast, for instance. Nothing better at making a lad frustrated than a "bad cop" character that causes problems, while there's nothing your main character can do about it. Very Happy

Not quite a Newb Joined: 09 Sep 2011 Posts: 67

Attempting to start a bait as a pirate captain which could be fun

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:28 pm

Carol Mitford - main character of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street. Strong, independent small town housewife.
Malcom Spofford -Dim victim-in-waiting stoner. Needs the WU transfer procedure repeatedly explained.
Jim Phelps - leader of the Impossible Mission Force from the 60s and 70s Mission Impossible TV series. I created this character to slap a lad who claimed to represent the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but kept attaching the Impossible Mission Force logo to his emails.
Kim To Duk - semi-privileged son of a third tier North Korean government official. Has never heard of Western Union.
William Claude Dukenfield - alcoholic womanizer who blacks out the afternoon he made the wire transfer. The real name of W. C. Fields.
George Metesky - Google the name. Investment banker who offers a hand to US military personnel trying to get large sums of money out of Iraq. Aggressively pushes sub-prime mortgage instruments.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:19 pm

"And it will be buttoned." Right?

Duffy, has your ornithologist ever spotted a St. Louis Cardinal? Would he be interested in joining ВONΕR?

My main characters are an ichthyologist-fisher couple. They are usually at sea or on the bay, which makes WU/MG difficult, but they can do bank transfers over the Internet. They have a son, but he doesn't actually appear in baits. Other characters are their landlord, who is not very observant, and their lawyer.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:36 pm

Cute but socially inadequate women, pensioners, small boi lads, Mr Gomer, wealthy retirees, ex-patriates, and all their wierd friends.

The "supporting cast" is important because when things need to go wrong they can do it, and your main character remains shiny. Lads do much the same thing, and are not above firing a barrister or two.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:43 pm

My favourites are:

Herbert Hoover: Mentally unstable, socially inept, middle-aged loser. Great fun with love lads and anti-scam scams. (The email account also often doubles as Herbert Hoover, frustratingly unhelpful Western Union/MTCN Vault employee.)

Lord Olivius Arkansas, (endlessly long list of royal titles): Eccentric, gullible and absurdly rich member of the United States royal family and the current Lord of Delaware. (Account also doubles for burnt out stoners.)

Stinky the Gangster: Surly,morbidly obese, moronic wannabe drugdealer and gangster, with some serious hygene issues.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:23 am

For a Red Cross Lad, I was a donor. Got 2 piggies

For an inheritance, I was Not the relative. (current playing)

For a Diplomat a store owner dealing in fine art. Unfortunately for him, I have a contract with my own shipping and storage company. Boat will be there next week.

For a Haitian Relief lad, A parishioner at a church raising funds to help victims (Fun one. Played myself and used photos the real fund raising thermometer at church. Names changed of course) We raised $50,000 and delivered it. Was a fun bait. Funds were sent by missionary. All he had to do was show up to collect.. Wink

Small problem for him with a Lagos IP. He watched the fund grow and then get delivered. Even the delivery address was given. He didn't know other delivery plans were made.

Ex military guy from Iraq. For a lad who has part of the funds from the big cash find in Baghdad. (currently playing)

Oh, and a secret agent that might like to make some extra cash on the side.

For a Banker at an International bank, A somewhat gullible business man. Sent the money but does not trust the MCTN to email. Sent it by FAX to the real bank listed. Very Happy

When the fax was declared broken, called the real bank to give the MCTN securely.

419Eater is my life Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 293

I've been so many characters I can barely keep track of them. My baits employ a "cast of thousands" approach.

I've been:

-- An aid worker at a camp in rural Africa.
-- A Canadian importer of fine wine.
-- An ex-Green Beret military man, slightly crazy, with a criminal past.
-- A computer geek with chronic scabies who never leaves his mother's basement.
-- An Australian professional surf champion.
-- An eccentric and very rich Scotsman, also a molestor of young boys.
-- A retired insurance salesman from Florida.
-- A homicide detective from the Windhoek, Namibia police department.
-- An archaeologist salvaging the wreckage of a World War II bomber that crashed in the Libyan desert in 1942.
-- A bank teller from Minneapolis.
-- A Jim Jones style cult leader.

I have also impersonated lads on many occasions, including real-life lads from previous baits, whose names (which are always fake anyway) and contact details I've recycled into future baits. For example, if Charles Odwili was my pet on my last bait, if I need to bring in a lad character on my new bait, I'll pose as Charles Odwili and open an email account whose address is one letter different than the Charles Odwili I baited before. I do this so if I need, for example, a dolla choppa, the lad who gets chopped might someday go looking for the "real" Charles Odwili, whose contact information I have so helpfully supplied. Laughing

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 28 Sep 2010 Posts: 923

I'm currently in the middle of a straight bait with no outlandish characteristic but I'm thinking about bringing in his lawyer friend to look over some legal documents and spice things up a bit.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:35 am

My standard character is an elderly lady who is deaf (so no phone) and is in a wheelchair and unable to leave the house, necessitating bank transfers instead of Western Union.

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 4747

Who have I portrayed, are lets see:

Quagmire like male

A obnoxious southern Baptist.(with anti Africa traits, not racist he just looks down on Africa )

A pre op tranny

A CIA agent

A buyer for terrorist organizations

An heir who descended from people who participated in the African slave trade, selling arms to warring African tribes and countries.

And etc

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 4:59 pm

-Member of Canadian Military. (Probably the most normal).
-Clergy from the Anglican church St.Picards (Father Jean Luc has died twice I think. One must beware of exploding altars, and accidents with candles. His assistant Miles O'Brien makes a good replacement priest.)
- Dr Henry Jones Jr, head of the archeology department in the University of Alberta.
-A violent sociopath with split personalities, one a dominatrix with an addiction to chocolate milk, and the other a sweet innocent girl who hates the sound of children's programming
-A former terrorist.
-A Japanese Business Man
-A normal North American businessman who is looking for love.
-A redneck who keeps winning the lottery.
-Another Lad, sometimes even a G0merboy!
etc etc...