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Otterfan
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:23 am |
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Last year, I started three baits around about the same time in September. They didn't really go anywhere after about 3-4 months and the lads simply stopped replying one by one between January and February.
Yesterday, however, I received three emails, each from the different characters from those baits. Two were the very first opening format, as if I had never been contacted before, and the third was a "You failed to get your money because blahblahlblah..."
At first, my thought was "Oh, it was the same lad/team that I was baiting back then. I'm not surprised they didn't lead anywhere exciting!"
But then I checked the IP addresses for each email, and the first was Nigeria, second Benin, third China. Now, unless this is some worldwide gang I was baiting, I'm puzzled at how this happened.
Any ideas? (The two opening formats were identical to the ones that I got last September---same details, same fake companies, same character names.) |
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FrumpyBB
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:34 am |
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Maybe the format was just circulating around anyway.
Or the original lads have sold it (unlikely, I guess...)
Or they are in 3 seperate cafes which use 3 seperate providers whose locations you´ve got.
Or one lad has a buddy in China now.
Or I´m having absolutely no idea at all |
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sheboppe
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:20 am |
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The format is being recirculated, and sent to every email address that the lads can get their hands on. Since yours is out there, that's probably the reason. |
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Otterfan
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Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:34 pm |
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Oh, maybe I worded it a bit too vaguely.
What I mean is..
Lad 1 contacts me in September with format 1.
As does lad 2 (with a different format, let's call it format 2).
And so does lad 3, different format (format 3).
Baits go on for 3-4 months, each taking their own strange path, but then they sort of drop off with not much excitement or progress made.
Then, yesterday, I'm contacted with format 1 by lad-character 1, with format 2 by lad-character 2, and with a continuation of format 3 by lad-character 3.
Now... if I assume these were, in fact, the same lad/team that I was baiting back in September onwards then I could understand that same lad/team trying to resurrect old victims that never got the payment stage. That would definitely account for the evidence I saw yesterday.
But the IPs show three different locations (Nigeria, Benin, China). What sort of a coincidence that three lads from different locations all tried to resurrect old victims on the same day with the exact same scams they originally tried on me?
When I looked in the account I was almost pleasantly surprised to see three very familiar names. One name would have been a joy to behold, as it would appear he still thinks I'm a victim. But THREE? It got my Paranoia Meter twitching quite a bit, that's all. |
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"why did you waste my time like this why." -- US Army Captain William D Swenson
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