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guineagirl
Master Baiter
Joined: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 187
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:17 pm |
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Please help me with my research.
I used to hang out on 419eater 2 years ago, but then I went back to Africa and didn't have sufficient internet access or time to continue.
Now I'm back in the US, temporarily (I hope) unemployed again, and doing some research on a topic I think many people here can relate to.
A friend involved in undercover work said that at one point, he realized that his undercover identity had more friends than he did. If you find yourself in a similar situation, in other words, you find yourself preferring your baiting character's (or characters') life/lives to your own, or spending most of your time constructing them, post your comments here or send me a pm.
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DrWho
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Jan 2004
Posts: 5486
Location: Where ever I go, there I am
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:24 pm |
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I can start. No.
My baiting characters are stupid, unimaginative and are prone to be scammed a lot. They are usually religious tools with no ability to think on their own. And they associate with scum.
Those characters only exist a few minutes during the day so I don't think I would prefer their life. I don't think there is a similarity to people who work undercover and have to assume a character over a long period of time. |
_________________ "i think you people do not know whom you are talking of,i am not in any terrorist organization or planning any such of terrorist activities."
"i am not a terrorist and your america cia cna also investigate me."
"i am not a terrorist.send the shit stuff and let me get it fillied."
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"To Serve Man"
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DizzySteinway
Annoying Stuck-Up Cow
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
Posts: 222
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:27 pm |
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Generally, no. I don't really put enough effort into developing my characters. Occasionally the one friend this character seems to have contacts the scammer to inform them of my 'unfortunate accident', and plus I seem to have developed something of a real life (patent pending) these last few months, so no I wouldn't say so. |
_________________ "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 |
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Rodus
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 3685
Location: Back under the cold shower
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:41 pm |
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No, my baiting characters are either total halfwits, or religious zealots with psychological problems. Not good friend material. |
_________________ I will kiss you romance u,suck and penetrate u - Williams Muyeke
now am as poor as a church rat - Lou1s Mar1on
I AM FINANCIALLY DEAD RIGHT AWAY - Louis in Accra
u can keep sending money to Gomer and leave me alone - Agent Smith cracks up
Lou1s Mar1on - Lagos to Accra (satellite IP) - "so, what i need to do to get out of these place?"
- 18 mths: Louis
The*Catb1ngo Hotel*
*My Church*
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Radden
** SUSPENDED **
Joined: 26 Mar 2005
Posts: 1267
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:05 pm |
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FRIENDS?!
never heard of that term before. |
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kleindoofy
*** BANNED ***
Joined: 24 Oct 2004
Posts: 6248
Location: Europe
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:10 pm |
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I'm not a pretty dumb rich widow from Northern England who constantly gets everything confused and for whom everything has to be repeated at least ten times.
I'd hate to be her. I'm quite content and happy being myself. |
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mugu_cultist
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 02 Apr 2004
Posts: 857
Location: Deep 13
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:37 pm |
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No. In fact, my baiting characters tend to be loners, quite unlike my real life persona.
Now, if your question was "Do you have more friends on Eater than in real life?", again the answer would be "no", but it would be much more realistic comparison. |
_________________ "I HOPE THEY WILL BE ENOUGH DOG FOR YOU TO EAT AS YOR WEDDING CAKE.."
"i really felt pity on the girl you marry. your pennis is like a cow." -- adams mensah
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Simba
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Nov 2006
Posts: 4093
Location: Bila Shaka
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:47 pm |
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My characters have a jetset lifestyle that is "absolutely fabulous dahling"...
Sadly, they alwas seem to end up being kidnapped or murdered though, so on reflection, I wouldn't want to be one of my creations.... |
_________________ =5imba Safari Camps
=King Zongo-Ouaga to Accra to Lome to Accra to Lome
=Mr Duru-Ouaga to Accra to Ouaga to Abidjan
=Mr Yetonde-Sierra Leone to Accra
=Mr Jiullus-Abidjan to Accra to Kumasi to Tamale
=Mr Dandy-Abidjan to Monrovia-SSC Liberia
=Mr Mandela-Jo'burg to Maun-SSC Botswana
=Mr Danka-Dakar to Bangul-SSC Gambia
=Mr Twumasi-Accra to Cotonou-SSC Benin
=Mr Gomer-Lagos to Douala to Parakou-SSC Cameroon & SSC Benin
=Mr Chukwu-Lome to Accra to Koforidua. Lome to Lagos. Lome to Cotonou.
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spot
Moderator
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
Posts: 9149
Location: Criminal Disruption Department.
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:59 pm |
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guineagirl wrote: |
Please help me with my research.
.........., and doing some research on a topic I think many people here can relate to. |
Go on .......... tell us what the reasearch topic is .... Schizophrenia ? |
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guineagirl
Master Baiter
Joined: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 187
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:22 pm |
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No, the topic isn't schizophrenia, or even multiple personality disorder, which would be more appropriate.
I guess I need to rephrase the request. What I'm really curious about are people who start investing energy in their character's identities to the point where it becomes a kind of addiction.
Maybe baits are more effective if you have boring characters, but doesn't it detract from the fun? What, no mafia-connected widows or pedaphile ring-running clergymen? |
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Ivor Grimey Colon
"Trophy slut"
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1338
Location: England
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:57 pm |
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KeyserSoze
Elite Baiter
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Posts: 1138
Location: Debo's pigeon coop
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:59 pm |
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I have created some pretty wild characters before, which usually become more and more wild as time goes by. However, those characters only last as long as the bait itself. Once a great bait ends I will tend to slow down and stop thinking about baiting very much during the day.
To make things clear though; I have lots of real life friends and could never get addicted to playing some imaginary character on the internet. |
_________________ "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 -
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Kickstart
419Eater is my life
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Posts: 447
Location: Godzone
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Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:23 am |
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I personally think that if I ever met one of my characters in person - I would kill it off very quickly. They are so annoying, controlling, forgetful, demanding, illiterate, pc unsavvy and more that I couldnt last in the same room with one for long at all.
I guess, being undercover requires you to be an extrovert, where baiting can be very introverted. |
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Only two things are infinate, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
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mrsbean
Elite Baiter
Joined: 06 Oct 2004
Posts: 1775
Location: North of the Rio Grande, South of Alaska
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Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:55 am |
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I'm a very straight baiter, so my current character is quite often just "me" with relatively minor changes. She usually has a different job with a schedule that makes her difficult to contact by phone, to be sure, and lives in a different southern state than I do, and her financial situation is not as good, and sometimes, her sense of skepticism is not as healthily developed, but honestly, I figured out quite a while back that the easiest way to tell a lie is just to put a new coat of paint on the truth.
Now, obviously, my character does the outrageous and sometimes reprehensible things real me simply wouldn't do, like cursing a lad viciously or questioning his sexual orientation or anything else I can think of that will probably set the lad's teeth on edge, but the initial framework (basic demographics like age, sex, usually religion, if it comes up, region of origin, etc.) is mostly me. I just start with me and based on the lad reaction and the direction the bait takes, I build out from there. Sometimes I veer a little, sometimes I veer a lot. Do I prefer my character? Nope. I just think like "her" for a few fun, mischievous minutes a day.
Some baits run closer to real me than others. I did one where I had a lad who wanted a "insert obscure and outrageous totally made up half-arsed name for an old, rare, expensive data tape here" from me, so I kept a straight face while maintaining I ran a computer refurbishing business out of my garage, and by golly, I just happened to have ten of 'em on hand, gathering dust! Watching his scrambling to salvage a chance to make some money off of me was well worth it. I even went to great lengths to show him the house I was purchasing for his arrival, etc. I left him totally believing that such a tape existed.
Then I encouraged another baiter to contact him and tell him they found a lady who ran a computer refurb business out of her garage who just happened to have one of these tapes... |
_________________ Night of the Deaded Banks - 6 x x26
I believe that you cannot get this type of opportunity again till you enter grave, you are such a bounch of stupid that I have never seen. - Jerry Gezi
Heaven help us, I've started publishing my baits in a blog... If you want to learn how to straight bait, thisaway...
Straightbait
Nifty anti-scam sites of interest
Artists Against 419 | Fraudwatchers |Scamomatic | Scampatroll Scam Victims United | Fake Checks Dot Org |
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shishtavi
Master Baiter
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
Posts: 244
Location: New Zealand
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Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:13 am |
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My characters tend to be oxymornic in the way they are happy to hand out donations of vast amount of sums yet are simultaneously unable to do so.
They tend to be both kind and caring yet at the same time they have a dark side thta includes treatign everyone around them as objects and probably being insane I also have a pair of assasin-plumbers named mario and luigi |
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"YOU WONT RUN FAR FROM CR0WLEY AND HIS PLUMBERS, I DONT LIKE MUGUS TURNING ME AROUND." - Denny Both
"it should have occured to me being stranded the second time here in Ghana and your miserable organization cant even offer a $100 for my rescue,idiots!" - M0ses Uz3m3
"I need to get my donation now or else i will be forced to think ortherwise" - m0ses uz3m3
x2 Lagos-Accra
lagos-tamale: courtesy of SP |
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rumbero
Baiting Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2006
Posts: 3677
Location: All the Salsa Night Clubs
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Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:08 am |
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My characters are just puppets in a play.
They range from priests to Cartel drug lords. Businesses are created to fit the bait.
Since none of my characters are salsa dancers, I cannot identify myself with any. I have develop some characters that have their own personality and fit according to the bait. |
_________________ Lagos to Tamale. Rev. Frank Lagos to Abuja
Lagos to Abuja Pr1nc3 F@w@z
Ghana to Benin's Simba Camp Joe C@rlton
Lagos to Ghana Opus Dei Templar
Nukuru to Mombasa 1,500 kms van donation
Co bait with SlowFreddy Sao Tome island to Gabon Lagos to Abuja Co, donation
YOUR WIFE WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A MONKEY, YOU ARE GOING TO SUFFER FROM EPILEPTIC,
LET YOUR MOTHER FUCK YOUR BEST FRIEND. LET YOUR FATHER FUCK A MAD STREET WOMAN, USELESS INTERNET FRAUDSTER. (barrister Dan )
I bet u , soon , u will be laying in a close casket ,
will make u understand that i'm a spiritual man (Makinwa the retarded mugu)
in juses name u will dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
( Makinwa) |
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Lester
Baiting Guru
Joined: 20 Nov 2003
Posts: 2625
Location: Somewhere between here and there
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Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:43 am |
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Acutally no .. my charaters seem to be the next Jim Jones with a wild religiont hat is trying to spread everywhere and even with movie stars - while that might be nice - accidents seem to happen offen to these guys
or end up in forigen prisons |
_________________ x3 - R&H Spam Skit.
x2 x6
x75
$3,838,681.54 of fake checks taken off the street
x13 x4 4y 3m
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"Just open up and tell me the truth and stop tricking your dick." - Mr.Kofi Yousaof
"I'm a Muslim, Ok I'm a Christian, Mother F---. Get the F---- off my phone N-----, don't call me anymore." - A lad on the phone with "Homeland Security". |
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thud419
Baiting Guru
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Posts: 3193
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Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:56 am |
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Out of seven regular characters, only three are developed to any great extent and two of them work together. I don't know how many friends they have, but as they sell pornography to major government figures, they have many contacts. The third one actually has a written history - about one page of A4. She may or may not be a member of my church. All other contacts are anonymous - I don't even know the name of her ex-husband.
Baiting characters seem to require even less detail than role-playing characters. I've got some reasonable amount of detail for some of those - but the answer to your question would still be "no." |
_________________ Click here to feel warm and cozy.
I did not f**k your wife in any way -- Nike Akanbi
I don't know what else to do or do I continue filling and filling forms. -- Barr. Koloti
you has been dribbling me up and down but I will show some thing you have never seen before, I think you breath air wait and see. -- Barr. Cole
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x 0.25 won from Reaper in a sucker's bet
x8 x several |
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