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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:08 am

I used the word "potvic" in a fake site post. Tsnerd didn't know what I meant. So here's a definition:

potvic, n. [potential victim] Someone who is not a baiter, has responded to a scammer, and has not sent any money or valuable object to or on behalf of the scammer.

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:14 am

The definition according to who? You can't just make up a term and expected to be accepted by everyone just because you defined it in a thread Laughing

You seriously can't just type the two words "potential victim"? Because if you do everyone will know what you mean. If you continue referring to them a "potvic" after a few days when this thread moves on, no one will.

Edit: Okay after a search I see that TS has already asked you kindly to stop using the term "potvic" for the same reason I just pointed out.

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:00 am

I think this thread is "fingay".

fingay, n. [fucking gay] Containing inane bullshit in the OP which is just as unhetero as the pathetic Scammer Genus thread.

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:39 pm

Posvic - possible victim
Wobevic - would-be victim
Probvic - probable victim
Likvic - likely victim
Presvic - presumed victim
Putvic - putative victim
Apvic - Apparent victim
Obvic - Obvious victim

(Thanks, Roget!)

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:56 am

^^^Please don't. Making up such terms is counter to one of our purposes here and at Scamwarners, which is to be a resource for victims of advance-fee fraud scams. Inventing officious-sounding but ultimately silly terms for victims makes us seem pretentious and uncaring; it denigrates real victims' situations; and it unnecessarily obfuscates and trivializes concepts that should be foremost in the minds of people using this forum.

I don't give a crap about what lads think or how we treat them, so feel free to waste your time making up trivial terms for scammers. But please do not mess with or disrespect their victims.

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:46 pm

^^^Wouldn't dream of using any of those terms. Just being whimsical.

Completely agree with you, bohigal. There's plenty of Newspeak around and we don't need it creeping into the forum.

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:49 pm

Thanks. I still have trouble deciphering text messages people send don't need no more abbreviations or whatever one would call them.

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:06 pm

^ O RLY?

Master Baiter Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 114

I agree with the general sentiment here.

I have a lot of fun making up words and phrases to confuse the lads, but let's stick to recognized English with each other.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:22 pm

^^^^ Making up words for lads and phrases is the best de-education tool. I like opening a dictionary or book to a random page and finding a random word to insert in a mail to a lad.

Right now another baiter is baiting a lad with last name of Koffi, and is using lots of coffee-related words, i.e. caramelizing, latte, demitasse, inter alia.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:35 pm

^The Indonesian fish gal that my character was going to stay with lives at the corner of Jalan Kopi (does exist) and Jalan Luwak (doesn't exist). Those translate to Coffee Street and Civet Street. She never got to mention Jalan Luwak, as she was falsely arrested in Narita.

I've used encabulator-related words with lads. The description of an encabulator contains nonsense words like "depleneration".

Master Baiter Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 114

Just to be clear, I don't make up completely random words out of nothing, but imaginative composite words or nonsensical phrases. My current bait is heavy on these, combining religion with sexual innuendo - I'll be happy to share some when it's done, lest my lad has learned how to google.

In my most recently posted bait, I routinely burst into song, seguing in and out of several lines of song lyrics. The House of the Rising Sun is a great one when "she" asks about my parents:

Quote:

To answer your question about my parents, my mother was a tailor she sewed my new bluejeans my father was a gamblin' man down in New Orleans now the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and trunk and the only time he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk and I was born in a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one but all that will change now that I've met you Irina who I think will be the love of my life and will do all the things that the warning label said my last grlfriend couldn't do, and we will be happy together.

(From Stuck In The Middle)

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:20 pm

Guess what was playing on my ipod when I sent this a while ago:

Quote:

Hey Andy

How are you?

I'm pretty good, feeling great and doing fine!!! Smile

Please accept my love and best wishes.

I had a bit of an epiphany recently. I know you don't like it when I discuss my visualisation of complex problems and their associated solutions with my parrot, Jolly, but bear with me.

Jolly and I were in deep conversation about a recent business trip of mine. I was in the Brazilian rain forest sourcing the rare and exotic Tubthumping plant, which is reputed to have medicinal qualities, for a Chinese client of mine. I was based in the remote village of Chumbawumba were my representative had to take part in one of the village rituals before the village chief would trade the fabulous Tubthumping plant with me. Well this ritual was really violent he got knocked down, but he got up again, he ain't ever going to be kept down, he got knocked down, then he got up again, never gonna keep him down!! We then traded the exotic Tubthumping plant for a crate of whiskey drinks, a crate of vodka drinks, a crate of lager drinks and a crate of cider drinks. We all sang songs that reminded us of the good times, and songs that reminded us of the bad times, me and Danny boy - pretty close to Argentenia. It was during all this that I pondered upon our predicament, and after extensive discussions with Jolly we decided that I may have been to hasty in firing you. Me and Jolly then decided that we would allow you continue with the transaction and that we could continue in our relationship. I then remembered that you said, and I apologise for paraphrasing, "the opinions of parrots are irrelevant in this transaction" so your still fired.

Regards

Doug Witherspoon

edit: the above is from the same ongoing bait as my sig line quote

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

I like sending the following to my love lads if they get fed up with my ditziness and ignore me:

"Where oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here on my own? I searched the world over and I thought I found true love but you found another and Pffft!, you were gone".

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:27 pm

I sometimes insert titles of (old) Country & Western songs when appropriate. (I just came in from Walking After Midnight when I got your email)

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:35 pm

One of my characters tends to reply: "I am Jabba. Read my name and despair."

Surprisingly few takes notice of that. Laughing

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:02 pm

Maybe we need an award for the first Baiter who can insert Jethro Tull's 'Thick as a Brick' into a script.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:44 pm

Slightlyoutofit wrote:

I think this thread is "fingay".

fingay, n. [fucking gay] Containing inane bullshit in the OP which is just as unhetero as the pathetic Scammer Genus thread.

Hey how about
sadmin, n. [sad admin] Forum admins who criticize anyone and everything they read on forums that don't fit into their elitist view of what is a good post. Often make liberal use of words like 'gay' when they actually mean 'not good'.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:54 pm

Moi? "Elitist"?

Tut, tut, tut. Having to live up to that standard is going to be hard. How shall I do it?
I know. I'll lock that thread. Wouldn't want to let you down now would I? I mean, if you're going to make a personal attack, I may as well live up to it.

Anything else you'd like to add? Or can I cordially invite you to shut the fuck up before my elitist outlook prompts me to do something else?