Do you ever get good lads anymore?

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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:48 pm

I have emailed loads of lads and, now, most bounce! Even if you do reply most lads twig at the slightest hiccup, it seems they are wisening up to the "Baiter Ways". Good lads are hard to find now! Post them here if you have any.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:50 pm

Where do you get your lads? I had quite some good ones lately, so it may all be just a case of simple bad luck.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:55 pm

ceegood wrote:

...most lads twig at the slightest hiccup...

Can you define "hiccup"? I haven't really noticed any changes.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:00 pm

ceegood wrote:

Good lads are hard to find now! Post them here if you have any.

You are obviously looking in all the wrong places.
The Eater Surplus Letters forum has an ever increasing supply of fresh meat for starters.

The last thing that I would do with a lad address that I'm engaged with is to post it here.

Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 7103 Location: Yes

All of my lads are bad -- very bad. Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:07 pm

One of mine twigged because I demanded he give me his ID before I gave him mine (not that he would ever get it), and I had been "working" Shocked

him for 4 months

Must just be me... Confused

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:48 pm

Working them all from the same email address?

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:01 pm

The E-Mail Providers are trying to keep up with the scammers by shutting them down. The smart lads will give you a "private" e-mail along with that spam. The newbie lads would scam and spam from the same account. Laughing

I do occasionally get a few bounced. But there are plenty of fresh meat as well. Smile

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:05 pm

persephone wrote:

I had quite some good ones lately

I had the same complaint recently, but Persephone passed me a few live ones and got the ball rolling again.

Maybe a change in the source of collection.. Wink

If you want to, sen me a PM, and I'll pass a couple along.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:09 pm

ceegood wrote:

it seems they are wisening up to the "Baiter Ways"

Maybe you're tweaking them too soon? Play it straight and project the clueless sucker persona to really hook him. Then drag it out for centuries, using every plausible (or not) excuse you can dream up to keep him feeding. Make him pace the floor night after sleepless night, screaming to heaven for that gold-plated MTCN. Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:21 pm

Wising up

Dumbing down - more like. I mistakenly replied to some off an account in the wrong name. They didn't bat an eyelid.

I think if I baited off an account called scambaiter they'd still bite if I offered to pay them money. Very Happy

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:42 pm

Looking at the trophy forums I didn't notice any wisening up. Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:37 pm

ceegood Maybe try a straigth bait for a change and you'll see how "smart" they are, I'm having fun like always Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:50 pm

Lads will be lads. The solution to the question of losing lads is to get more lads. Tell 20 a day that you are interested in more information. Do that every day. Instead of passports send them TIFF files of cheesecake photos. Forward 5 at a time to 20 lads. Wasting the time of a hundred over three days is just as effective as wasting the time of one for three hundred days. The low level catcher may be sending your TIFF files and email traffic to the oga. The oga may end up paying the catcher for your information. Your one quick message may echo throughout the internet cafes of the world.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:55 pm

Well I cannot see that they are getting wiser...in fact I am gradually getting the funniest lads I ever had. Perhaps though I have learned now to perfection to pretend to be dumber and dumber than I ever could pretend before so that right now I�m on lads� level after seven more or less fruitless months just watching the experienced ladticklers walking by with trophies galore...bad luck or too little perseverance on my side or badly needed training time? I don�t know...doesn�t matter.
A good thing to do is to contact a baiter from another continent and then take care of a lad in two shifts Very Happy

works fantastic! And you can give infos and hints and what-to-do�s to each other as well! Actually scammer-chatting is even more fun than lonesome email writing in my opinion.
Perhaps some more training in lad psychology is good, too. And a good drama sense (I will never achieve) - one must have been born with this obviously....
Having three baiting characters "helping" each other works ok now, good to handle.
One must invest spare time regularly though...and too often I�m just too lazy to make up qualified emails. Then it�s chatting time!

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:53 pm

Lads seem pretty much the same in the short time I've been enjoying their prose. Some stick, some don't.

Quote:

I think if I baited off an account called scambaiter they'd still bite if I offered to pay them money.

Give it a try Gomer when you finish with your Lotto Lad Overload.

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:18 am

ceegood^

I get about 25 unsolicited lad scams per week.

I can assure you--they are still as dumb as a box of rocks. Consider that most of the 'grunt-work' is done by eager newbie-lads, a job that no doubt has hi-pressure and a high turn-over for myriad reasons.

There are only about 10 basic versions of the scam they proffer, but once you've seen them all you have a good idea of where it is all leading up to. Which is why you must get them off-subject as fast as possible!

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:07 pm

In reply to the OP, I'm having a hard time getting some check scams going at the moment.

I've tried the most recent 6 or 7 check mule jobs in the surplus section, but ALL of them have bounced.
It's a brand new email addy too.

So I see where you're coming from.

As for lads getting smarter.... Probably not! Laughing

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:52 pm

The low-level catchers and freelancers will always be up for a laugh, they're usually pretty easy to spot, too, not least because they're wetting themselves with excitement about actually managing to hook a maga.

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:34 pm

@Mad4Maya

Naah - I like a laugh and a challenge too - Scam Bayta is my account - I couldn't get the proper spelling - it was taken

I'm sure I'll find a time to use it soon

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