Author |
Message |
MrPop
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Posts: 27
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:31 pm |
|
I'm bored at work and don't have many lads on the go at the moment due to them all visiting their mothers over Christmas etc (obviously, nothing to do with Nigerian internet cafes closing over Xmas/New Year!!) so I decided to browse through some old guestbooks on Google.
I was amazed at how popular our hobby has become lately - almost every guestbook has a posting from a Gmail account saying something along the lines of "Excellent site, my wealthy company would like to make a donation" etc. I have 2 questions:
1) Does anyone here still sign guestbooks or do you get all the lads you need from this site?
2) Do you think the lads will one day cotton on that messages like the one above are from baiters? Some of the messages, like the one above, are hardly subtle. Or are there enough stupid lads out there to keep us entertained for years to come? |
_________________ PM me for gmail invites |
|
|
|
jojobean
Baiting Guru
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Posts: 7586
Location: YOU WILL DRINK YOUR URINE IN A COMERCIAL BUS
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:35 pm |
|
I would say don't seed the guestbooks. In my opinion, it is better to just pick them off of this site. |
_________________
Christ Ghana-Chad
Miracle Benin-Chad
Omar Edo-Abeche
Adamu Lagos-Abeche
Emi - S Africa-Egypt-Sudan 10k miles
Chris Dakar-Niger-BF-Cameroon-Lagos-Mali-Nairobi 9.6k miles
Kevin Accra- BF x2, Togo x2, Kumasi x3, Bolgatanga, Benin City, Tamale x2 5k miles x 6
Kenny 3k miles- dont f*ck me up about the payment plz. i have a policy about that. I JUST GOT A SMALL GOAT TODAY AND ITS IN MY HOUSE NOW. i lobve the goat.
Ben 2.5k miles
Misc Germany-Holland, Atlanta, Beijing-ChangZhou, London-Glasgow, TIMBUKTU x 2 |
|
|
|
Don
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Posts: 3045
Location: Italy, 87.2.222.132
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:42 pm |
|
1) I don't seed guestbooks anymore.
2) Lads don't really read those guestbooks, neither do they send their initial scam explicitly to you. You could sign up with "Hey, I'm a baiter and I would like to screw you over as much as possible" and still get enough 419s to plaster your doorway with. |
_________________ x12
No sugar plum fairies have been hurt during the process of creating this message.
**"Freedom? There ain't no fuckin' Freedom!"** |
|
|
|
bombardier
*** BANNED ***
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Posts: 2021
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:43 pm |
|
|
|
|
Mr Fishe
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Nov 2003
Posts: 2242
Location: PL_Goldrush
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:44 pm |
|
Seeding guestbooks with �I�m so rich, someone contact me!� is a modality from the dark ages in scambaiting terms. Since we have so many other resources for new lads now (the surplus letters forum is a good start) it�s mostly unnecessary now. And to answer your second question, the lads harvest guestbooks with programs that simply lift every email address on the page, so the baiter�s comment will not be read by the lad anyway. |
_________________ Lads love forms!
Magic eye fun: Western Union MoneyGram
Pre-transfer red tape: Department of Homeland Security HM Revenue & Customs
Mandatory customer survey: Western Union
"I have decided to leave the church and join a travelling circus..." - the original and best |
|
|
|
spot
Moderator
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
Posts: 9149
Location: Criminal Disruption Department.
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:49 pm |
|
When Lads are looking for addresses that is exactly what they're looking for ....addresses! ..... no time to think "is this a good entry in the guestbook" |
|
|
|
|
Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:49 pm |
|
Like the others I stopped seeding guestbooks a long time ago when I noticed that more and more site owners were disabling their books because of abuse by both lads and baiters.
Surplus is a better answer and not at all intrusive on those who just want feedback from readers of their sites. |
_________________
Fakers: many, many, lots; an SSL and a couple of Resellers.
x 6
AH, AH, AH! Two little ! |
|
|
|
MrPop
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Posts: 27
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:52 pm |
|
I didn't realise that was how they got the e-mail addresses. To give the b@stards credit, that's fairly clever!
Quote: |
still get enough 419s to plaster your doorway with |
I like this idea! I'm imagining a wall papered with a selection of introduction e-mails! I have to find some work to do, the boredom has obviously gone too far when you start picturing things like that!! |
_________________ PM me for gmail invites |
|
|
|
Don
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Posts: 3045
Location: Italy, 87.2.222.132
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:59 pm |
|
Actually a bar papered with prints of such mails wouldn't be bad. We could serve Nigerian beer and food specialities. There could even be a PC with internet connection in some corner and a phone for prank calls. And SF could be barmaid. Anyone up for a stylish baiter's pub? |
_________________ x12
No sugar plum fairies have been hurt during the process of creating this message.
**"Freedom? There ain't no fuckin' Freedom!"** |
|
|
|
Shiver Metimbers
419Eater Admin
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Posts: 7469
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:03 pm |
|
I don't seed guestbooks anymore either. There are other places to get a bite, including our own surplus letters forum, as has already been metioned.
These guys don't give a monkeys where they find their potential victims' email addresses. Hardly a day goes by now when I don't receive scam emails to all the 419eater.com admin email addresses |
_________________ Roland Koffi: "Please my name is not Ahoy Matey. thakyou..."
Wilson Madu: "I will condom you to a painful death..."
----------------------------------
Shiver's scammer trophies.
---------------------------------- |
|
|
|
Simba
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Nov 2006
Posts: 4093
Location: Bila Shaka
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:03 pm |
|
On the subject of the popularity of baiting, I notice that that on any guestbook, it is literally peppered with silly names, so obviously from baiters.
I an Email from a mugu recently with about 12 Email addresses in the CC. I would have thought that at least half of them were baiters addys. |
|
|
|
|
windypops
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 6059
Location: Planet X
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:24 pm |
|
I still get a steady stream of lads (5-10 a day) through the catcher account I set up around the time I joined. The addy harvested from the guest books I seeded, must still be doing the rounds.
Funny thing is, I have loads of other Email accounts that only ever seem to get spammed, no lads! |
_________________ "No amount of semen donation will save this situation" Sanny Sanny
"We must disagree to agree" Raji Musa
If it's LADS you want. GoTo: http://www.yopmail.com/
and sign in with either ladmail or kentbrockman
|
|
|
|
benjaminbunny
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 3534
Location: escargotland
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:37 pm |
|
|
|
|
Jayhawk
Baiting Guru
Joined: 07 Jul 2006
Posts: 5727
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:39 pm |
|
Quote: |
Anyone up for a stylish baiter's pub? |
I like the idea Don, but in the interest of safety wouldn't you have to place it where nobody could find it? |
_________________ x8 < slacking?
just checked the site for update now, shipment smurfs in Porto Novo. Yes!! - Stanley
i will not share my smurfs with anybody again - Stanley (again)
Yes pets are allowed as far as you will occupy the apartment alone, you can release the Kraken.
i will kill you even if it take me to go to jail i will do that because i hate you with all my life....
assisin killer to Feathers McGraw
PLEASE I BEG YOU TO LET ME KNOW THAT PIGGIES OF YOURS PLEASE... assisin killer to Feathers again
x5 Team Humphere
Long Live Silver Peak Orphanage! - Loan Lad Langwenya Andile |
|
|
|
TheGoodRev
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 02 Jan 2007
Posts: 56
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:49 pm |
|
I started yesterday by seeding and am now juggling 6, which seems respectable, however I will make sure to take from surplus from now on as it seems easier |
|
|
|
|
Connie L. Gus
Moderator
Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 7243
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:01 pm |
|
There's a similar thread over in the Hints section. From what I've read in the guestbooks, just about every baiter and his little sister has posted their comments.
If the question is do I still do it? The answer is no. But when I was a noob, it was fun responding to 60 fresh lads with "Wow, I'm very excited about this, tell me more." I was making up for a lack of quality with massive quantity. |
_________________ x8
LISTEN TO ME WHAT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR ONE OF THOSE CHEAP CROOK OR WHAT -tobi donito
-a few,
LISTEN I CAN NOT TAKE YOUR SHIT ANY LONGER WE HAVE WHROTE A PETITION AGAINST YOU TO THE FBI WITH ALL OUR EVIDENCE YOU ARE INTO PROSTITUTION,DRUG DEALING, FORGERY, CREDIT CARDS FORGRY WESTEN UNION FALSIFICATION,DRUGING MEN,COMMETING MURDER, STEALING, DRUNCARD, ALL THIS WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE TO PROOF OUR CASE AGAINST YOU.-Johnson Hill
I am not finding it any funny...Henry A., Lagos, Nigeria to Cotonou, Benin, WIMPed
I am stranderd. Henry A. Lagos to Accra, WIMPed for 67 days.
* Help Keep Eater Running - Click here to donate |
|
|
|
YeaWhatever
Baiting Guru
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Posts: 4188
Location: Secret Lair
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:23 pm |
|
What is this "guestbook" thing that you speak of? |
_________________ <a href="http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm" target="_blank">
<i>"I just want to know why."</i> - Koffi Kuku - The Road to Chad/Darfur
<i>"We are in Kampala."</i> - Bernard Martin - The Road to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
<i>"i have arrive safe in namibia"</i> - Tony Kalabi - The Road to the Skeleton Coast
<i>"he is in aswan"</i> - Larry Ken - The Road to Abu Sunbul
The Road to the Hot Zone</a>
<a href="http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=89779" target="_blank"> The Making of a TWAT</a>
<a href="http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100535" target="_blank"> The Second Coming of TWAT</a>
x17 |
|
|
|
DizzySteinway
Annoying Stuck-Up Cow
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
Posts: 222
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:38 pm |
|
When I was a newb, I signed a couple to get a few lads, and I got a few long running baits out of it. But now I mainly rely on whats on offer from the shuttle or this forum, and occasionally urgentmessage.org
It just seems rathr pointless now, it abuses the persons site and the lads dry up after a few weeks and just send spam. |
_________________ "SETAN WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW AND YOU ARE WELCOME TO HEIL"- barrister richard knowles, my first ever bait! (And a suspected Nazi by the looks of it)
"DR RALPH IS A DOCTER YOU CAN RELY ON I NEVER FAILED IN MY MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS " - Dr. Ralph MD, esteemed doctor, purveyor of prostitutes est. 1977
- Feeling any better? -yes thank you, how kind! x5 |
|
|
|
His Lordship
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 31 Dec 2006
Posts: 1
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:42 pm |
|
I have just started recently and after seeding just a few guestbooks have received 9 approaches within 3 days - comments noted re using the surplus letters but I have noticed a few comments regarding 'quality v quantity' - does this mean I should concentrate on just a few of the more interesting approaches rather than just replying to them all or are there certain ones I should be targeting in particular ?? |
|
|
|
|
kleindoofy
*** BANNED ***
Joined: 24 Oct 2004
Posts: 6248
Location: Europe
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:27 pm |
|
I moderate the guestbook of a sports club in my city.
I doubt very much that an obvious baiter seeding would last more than 12 hours there. A lad "OOOOOO KEEP OFF I DONE LAND HERE!" even less. |
|
|
|
|
Captain Pike
Baiting Guru
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Posts: 2579
Location: Starbase 11
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:43 pm |
|
It's been a while since I seeded guestbooks, but I still do it occasionally.
I won't post a "I'm a rich businessman looking for overseas investment opportunities" type of message, but I will try to indicate that I actually looked at the site.
I have noted how the same people keep signing the same guestbooks with the same gmail addresses.....it's as predictable as the dead relative letters that will come in within 48 hours of someone who died on the Sagbama Expressway. |
_________________ x13 x5 (393 days)
"On the 21st of April 2001, my client? His wife and their three children were involved in a plane crash of Union Transport Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin Republic on the December 26,2003" Barrister Olorunshogo Williams, 25 October 2004.
"I am in reciept of your mail,i want you to know that you are really getting on my nerves." Burt Hardley, Wellkang International, 20 November 2007
"Please worry, we have already advice the FBI and they don't need to call you. They are very brianliant and intelident. They will get you soon. " Mr. Paul Rogers, Global Medical Equipment, 20 November 2007
As of 26 February 2009, $2,231,983.53 of fake checks and money orders have been intercepted and removed from circulation. |
|
|
|
Don
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Posts: 3045
Location: Italy, 87.2.222.132
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:48 pm |
|
Jayhawk wrote: |
but in the interest of safety wouldn't you have to place it where nobody could find it? |
No it's ok, you'd just have to pay for your beers in advance.
kleindoofy wrote: |
I moderate the guestbook of a sports club in my city. |
No way a lad would harvest a Borussia Dortmund guestbook. |
_________________ x12
No sugar plum fairies have been hurt during the process of creating this message.
**"Freedom? There ain't no fuckin' Freedom!"** |
|
|
|
Gnasher
Baiting Guru
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 2849
Location: Centre Stage in the Theatre of Cruelty
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:54 pm |
|
I just take my pick from the cornucopia of eager lads in our Surplus Letters sub-forum. I can then choose which type of bait - straight 419, inheritance, lottery, etc etc. With a resource like that I don't think it's really necessary to seed Guestbooks at all. |
_________________ x21
"you have to pay because he need to submit this form to the Federal Ministry Of Fancies" Barrister John/Mike/Richard Okeke
"they are in deed the swinders rotating about in the net and searching for whom they will stylishly defraud your belongings" A. Moron
"Please pray harder for God to guide and protect us during our travelling because flight airplane i observe is a very big risky" Abdul Karibu
"WE DOESN'T LIKE HOW DISOBIDIENT YOU ARE!" Coco Law Chambers
"BE INFORMED THAT YOU WILL INCUR DUMMERAGE AFTER 9 DAYS FROM TODAY" Burkina Faso Air Secure Air Service.\ |
|
|
|
kleindoofy
*** BANNED ***
Joined: 24 Oct 2004
Posts: 6248
Location: Europe
|
Posted:
Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:56 pm |
|
Don wrote: |
... No way a lad would harvest a Borussia Dortmund guestbook. |
They should harvest the Schalke 04 guestbook: instant victims, thousands of very stupid, greedy, unemployed victims.
Harvesting the Bayern Munich guestbook wouldn't work. Those fans can't read or write. |
|
|
|
|
KeyserSoze
Elite Baiter
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Posts: 1138
Location: Debo's pigeon coop
|
Posted:
Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:01 am |
|
I signed a ton of guestbooks when I first started scambaiting and have not had the need to do it ever again. I still get more and more scam emails everyday in that catcher account. |
_________________ "I was the head of the dradded occult menber in my university days.I have drank so many peoples blood physically if you dont know. so you people are too small for me ok?" - The soulless dunce cap lad
"WE HAVE REALLY SUFFERED GREATLY ON THIS 23 HOURS TRIP FROM IBADAN TO YOLA AND FINALLY TO MADUGURI. IT WAS A SERIOUS TERIBLE JOURNEY." - Kenny the healer - aprox 2500 miles
"I have worn your soul and I will Auction it to the land of the dead before 2 weeks. I laugh at your stupidity. I shall drink my early morning tea with your skull in the land of the dead by two weeks from now" - Cassidy the photographer -
x10 |
|
|
|
|