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Wright B Hindyou
Elite Baiter
Joined: 11 May 2004
Posts: 1795
Location: Bangkok
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Tue May 15, 2007 3:11 am |
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Some of you may have seen the recent TV show where a formerly successful Australian businessman gave Nigerian scammers money over a period of 16 years and, naturally, bankrupted himself. (If not, here's a transcript)
I pick up my paper this morning to find that a local here has handed over $450,000, making 170 payments and continuing even after being warned by the police. Another one has emerged, after admitting to paying $200,000 and a third was content with just $26,000. ($450,000 Australian dollars is US$375,000 and 200,000 'ponds starling')
Welcome to Queensland, Australia, the dumbest place on the planet when it comes to Internet scams. For those of you who don't know about it, this is a vast place (three times as big as Texas, folks) populated by five million chuckleheads who wander around all day saying 'ay' before going into Western Union to do their bit to support the economy of Lagos.
I despair, I truly do. The state police has an active cyber-crimes unit, and even has a project called Operation Echo Track, which tracks funds being sent to Nigeria and warns potential victims. But no, the fine folk here are sending $500,000 per month, doctors fighting with engineers and lawyers to give away their money.
We talk about educating the public, but what can you do when people simply won't listen?
EDIT: The state slogan is 'The Smart State' |
_________________ "YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY" - Douglas Minning
"bastard like you, I will kill you with my hand, son of nobody. May your soul rust in help." - Titi Andrew
"I trusted you very much without knowing that you are a drug addit person" - Emma Bambara
"THIS YOUR BEHAVIOR IS IRELEVANT AND CROSPOLOS CARACTER" - Madam Clarrise Keita.
"you must speak beter because we dont train mad people in this company." - Incredible Self-Baiting Pastor Joe
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crashhoot
Moderator
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
Posts: 4237
Location: Looking for the petting zoo.
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Tue May 15, 2007 3:15 am |
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Just imagine how much money would be spent if 'we' weren't here wasting some of the lads time.
I know it seems like a hopeless fight, but we are making a difference! |
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lieu
Master Baiter
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 137
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Tue May 15, 2007 4:21 am |
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I told my wife that I wanted to start doing this in the time I used to spend on MMO and her response was "how are you going to make a difference". I quoted Edmund Burke. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
It makes me feel good to know that maybe instead of scamming the lady down the hall, my lad is talking to me. |
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i also called their customer service, they just wasted my money. - T0p3 Ad3mola |
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rumbero
Baiting Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2006
Posts: 3677
Location: All the Salsa Night Clubs
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Tue May 15, 2007 4:35 am |
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Main reason why this fight will continue. As long as we keep a % of mugu's busy we are making sure that some innocent victim will not fall prey to these scums of the earth.
So morals and ethics play no role in humiliating these crimials.
Just my humble opinion |
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Lagos to Abuja Pr1nc3 F@w@z
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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.
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Reverend Bondi Cigars
Master Baiter
Joined: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 202
Location: Lake of Fire
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Tue May 15, 2007 4:50 am |
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EDIT: The state slogan is 'The Smart State' |
I noted in the recent 60 minutes story a claim that on average $0.5 Million is extracted from Queenslanders by 419 scammers each month. Queensland is an enigma. We in other states love to take the piss, but financially it's always been one of the better managed states. They've also got many of the best parts of Australia there, from a tourism perspective [Ahhh Queensland.....Monday one day, Tuesday the next..... ] I can't explain why they appear to be scammed more easily than the rest of Australia, but they seem to be the first Aus state to have established their own 419 hit squad, so I reckon, in typical Queensland style, in 5 years time they will have reversed the current trend. |
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Ima Baeder
Baiting Guru
Joined: 03 May 2007
Posts: 18313
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Tue May 15, 2007 4:55 am |
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I saw a news story last week about a guy who was going to jail because he had a position with a small city government and embezzled money from the city to send to scammers, after his own money/loans had run out. SAD.
Did anyone see the MSNBC to catch a conman show? They used a baiter to help them, his name was "Bill". I kept wondering if it was someone from here. . .
Why don't people print out some of the scam emails and make warning posters with them to put up in the WU offices so that when someone goes in to wire money, they'll see them, and be educated? |
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baitshack
Wannabe Baiter
Joined: 09 May 2007
Posts: 83
Location: The old phishing hole, Tobacco Road
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Tue May 15, 2007 5:05 am |
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It's disheartning to read about how many people still fall for the scams, considering how much press this subject has been given.
How big the problem is really struck home for me when I opened up a catcher account and started receiving loads of scam mail in short order.
There is no shortage of scammers and there is no shortage of victims. There are just not enough baiters to go around. |
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jackndebocks
Master Baiter
Joined: 02 May 2007
Posts: 160
Location: Inside a box with a crank.
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Tue May 15, 2007 5:22 am |
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It makes me sick to my stomach.
I read the story thinking it was me, my family, everything I worked for and it just made me so f... mad.
A few years back I read the story of a woman in Canada. Apparently she was in need for money for his husband's medical treatment. She was desperate and fell for one of this idiots' scams. You can imagine the outcome....
Bastards.... |
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Gnasher
Baiting Guru
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 2849
Location: Centre Stage in the Theatre of Cruelty
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Tue May 15, 2007 5:58 am |
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@ Wright B - Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that Qld is the Florida of Oz where a lot of cashed-up people retire to spend their supers in the sun? They get a computer to while away the hours of leisure, have no clue about the internets tubes and are sitting ducks for lads.
Anyway, Victoria has its own share of victims. A local high-profile accountant got sucked into a scam and 'borrowed' money ($400K if I recall) from his client account to fund it. It all ended in tears of course. But if so-called 'professionals' who presumably have a reasonable level of smarts clearly have no clue then what hope do the average Aussie battlers have? |
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"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.\ |
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Reaper
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 06 May 2007
Posts: 0
Location: Travelling in a fried-out combie. On a hippie trail, head full of zombie...
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Tue May 15, 2007 6:08 am |
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I live in NSW in Australia and have to say, yes Queensland people are a bit slower but thats just because they dont have a great education system
The state is quite large with the population spread around it the densest being the Gold Coast which is a holiday Resort area full of all those worlds, water, Warner Bros, etc.
No wonder they fall for the scams I look at them in sorrow not in mockery.. |
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Wright B Hindyou
Elite Baiter
Joined: 11 May 2004
Posts: 1795
Location: Bangkok
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Tue May 15, 2007 8:01 am |
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@Gnasher - I think you're right. Partly it's the retiree thing, partly it's the, er, rather undemanding nature of our state economy, mostly rural or tourism-based, and a general feeling of torpidity and somnolence.
Also, as Reaper says, our education system isn't the best, though whether that's cause or effect, I'm not sure.
For example, I once made the mistake of sitting in a pub in Cairns, flicking through a book while waiting for a friend. A local came past me and said, "Reading books, ay?" as though I had achieved something remarkable. Literacy here (in FNQ at any rate) means being able to read a gas meter.
We desperately need more publicity and education about this, and though QLD isn't alone in that, we're not a group which watches much serious investigative TV, I think. We need some rugby league team to stick 'Stop 419' on their guernseys to get any interest round 'ere. |
_________________ "YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY" - Douglas Minning
"bastard like you, I will kill you with my hand, son of nobody. May your soul rust in help." - Titi Andrew
"I trusted you very much without knowing that you are a drug addit person" - Emma Bambara
"THIS YOUR BEHAVIOR IS IRELEVANT AND CROSPOLOS CARACTER" - Madam Clarrise Keita.
"you must speak beter because we dont train mad people in this company." - Incredible Self-Baiting Pastor Joe |
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Scam Patroller
Baiting Guru
Joined: 08 Jul 2004
Posts: 11857
Location: UK
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Tue May 15, 2007 8:28 am |
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Ari
Elite Baiter
Joined: 17 Sep 2004
Posts: 1269
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Tue May 15, 2007 7:28 pm |
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That's just sick. A while ago, there was a thread asking if you pity your lads...this is why I *never* pity them. |
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luckey
Moderator
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 5672
Location: Check the lost and found
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Tue May 15, 2007 7:40 pm |
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I guess I'll be from Queensland in my next bait. |
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Range Hunt
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 15
Location: Texas
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Tue May 15, 2007 7:49 pm |
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luckey wrote: |
I guess I'll be from Queensland in my next bait. |
I was thinking the same thing. Can you imagine? |
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Poison Ivy
419Eater is my life
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 351
Location: England UK
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Tue May 15, 2007 8:02 pm |
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I can't begin to describe how angry I am at a) scammers getting money. To a lesser extent b) people not being informed enough of this scandal. I don't know what pains more, but I do know what I can try deal with. |
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Range Hunt
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 15
Location: Texas
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Tue May 15, 2007 10:15 pm |
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I don't know why people can fall for these things. It seems like common sense to me. Especially people with that amount of money to invest like that.
I'm just angry that these mugus are so stupid and still manage to pull this off. They just copy and paste and get money from innocent people.
There should be a few very sad stories in a single thread somewhere, so it's easy to link to when anyone has doubts about baiting. If anything, baiters are too nice. |
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Gnasher
Baiting Guru
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 2849
Location: Centre Stage in the Theatre of Cruelty
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Tue May 15, 2007 10:28 pm |
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@ Range - If we knew why people fall for these scams then we wouldn't be here. There are all kinds of factors - gullibility, ignorance, greed, loneliness, trust. Victims who get burned once and learn a hard lesson from it are actually the 'lucky' ones. There are plenty who keep getting sucked in over and over again, usually in the hope of recovering their previous losses (it's a bit like a gambling habit) only they don't understand that the 'jackpot' was never there in the first place. |
_________________ 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.\ |
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guineagirl
Master Baiter
Joined: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 187
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Tue May 15, 2007 10:37 pm |
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Range Hunt
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 15
Location: Texas
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Tue May 15, 2007 11:20 pm |
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Then let's not dabble and keep wasting their time! I have a lot of practical things in mind to make my future lads do, just to be extra cruel now. |
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Hellbastard
419Eater is my life
Joined: 04 Apr 2007
Posts: 381
Location: Outside the Western Union office, with a sniper rifle.
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Wed May 16, 2007 10:21 am |
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Yep, stories like this make me feel like my baiting efforts are just a drop in the buckets.
Still, I've fifteen lads on the books right now and the gloves are coming off. |
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Wright B Hindyou
Elite Baiter
Joined: 11 May 2004
Posts: 1795
Location: Bangkok
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Thu May 17, 2007 12:21 am |
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Another brain donor has admitted losing $100,000 in a classic wash-wash scam for which he travelled to Amsterdam, and made a total of 30 payments.
"I am a Christian and they talked about going to church," he said. "I felt like a Christian wouldn't rip me off."
The newspaper is also full of praise for a local man who got a Spanish lottery e-mail promising $600,000, but "fortunately, he smelled a rat."
Actually, perhaps all this publicity is a good thing. Victims here are now quite openly talking about being conned, which must be the best kind of education you can offer to other potential victims. |
_________________ "YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY" - Douglas Minning
"bastard like you, I will kill you with my hand, son of nobody. May your soul rust in help." - Titi Andrew
"I trusted you very much without knowing that you are a drug addit person" - Emma Bambara
"THIS YOUR BEHAVIOR IS IRELEVANT AND CROSPOLOS CARACTER" - Madam Clarrise Keita.
"you must speak beter because we dont train mad people in this company." - Incredible Self-Baiting Pastor Joe |
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Herb Sewell
419Eater is my life
Joined: 19 Aug 2006
Posts: 406
Location: Atascadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane
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Thu May 17, 2007 8:42 am |
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Ima Baeder wrote: |
Did anyone see the MSNBC to catch a conman show? They used a baiter to help them, his name was "Bill". I kept wondering if it was someone from here. . . |
I doubt it. They all but wore shirts that said "STUPID BAITER IN TOWN".
They had some seriously excellent electronics to track the package and they wasted their chances at catching someone the moment their plane landed! If anyone here helped them, I doubt they would show their face. Give Me their budget and I would deliver them a mugu a day! |
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harrya
Elite Baiter
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 1489
Location: Not Happy
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Thu May 17, 2007 11:17 am |
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I'll fess up to being south of QLD, now as for them being any different to the rest of the country. QLD has been Australia's own haven of scams, most people here know if it's a letter from QLD then put it in the bin. The laws there about lotteries etc are or weren't the same as NSW and VIC but anyone
over the age of 35 should remember all of the land scams in the 70's.
Investors spent millions on blocks of nice flat land for future development. Then found out later it flooded twice a day every day. The glossy pictures didn't show that.
I still bet if you did a proper study then it would be much the same all around the country. It's just that QLD has taken a step to measure it and try to stop it.
And as for corruption this country was founded on it |
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Traumagirl
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Joined: 07 Sep 2006
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Thu May 17, 2007 1:41 pm |
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I used to ask myself (and occasionally still do) ask myself, "how can someone be so ignorant to fall for this crap?"; but then I have to step back and remember that some people haven't been exposed to the world like we have.
Let's take older people. My parents, for instance, are both near 70. They barely know how to work a computer. My mother keeps screwing it up. She thinks the "internet" is a vast space with information floating around. They are not stupid people. They are both educated, but they are from a generation of people that do have a big retirement and too much trust in other people.
They're like a big, juicy ripe tomato for a mugu, and that pisses me off because that's my unmotivated, lazy birthright!
That's why I'm planning on locking them both in the attic as soon as possible so I can live off their hard earned money and swim in their pool .
'Cause if anyone is going to take advantage of them it should be their own kids! |
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