Hola! Back with suntan

By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics and access other forums reserved for members. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today by clicking here.

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:20 pm

With increasing excitement, yesterday I flew to Madrid to meet up with my lad's contact in Madrid.

Baited this lad since January, and we spent some considerable time putting the trip's details together. I had several phonecalls from the lad and Madrid lad, I said I would bring the €5000. I asked if I should bring gifts and was told to offer perfume. I asked if Chanel was ok.

I researched the flights and found one from a UK city airport to Madrid via sleazyjet. I sent the details to the lads. More phonecalls from them to verify me. I insisted on them picking me up from the airport. Madrid lad texted me details of a hotel to book into.

Arrival time was upon me. I wondered whether to try to say we had diverted to Bilbao to claim a safari. One email to my excellent mentor (firehouse5 you're the dude!) confirmed I'd gone completely wrong about this since anyone could check arrivals and see for themselves. So (as advised) my only modality was to waste their time at the airport.

So onto google to research Madrid airport and youtube to get some authentic sounds. Phonecall from Madrid lad, he asks me to wait under the Avis sign at Terminal One. I say ok. He says that he has sent someone to pick me up and I can hear him on his other phone speaking Spanish to her.

Couple more minutes and the phone rings again. Madrid lad asks for a description of me and says that I am not under said Avis sign. I say I am in Terminal 2, under the Avis sign. Madrid lad disputes this and despite his English being excellent, asks me to pass my phone to a Spaniard to aid communication.

I say "absolutely not" anyone could run off with my phone! Anyway I am standing under the Avis sign in Terminal 2. Please come and get me! I am informed that the driver who has been sent has "been at the airport for hours and is very frightened".

Fifteen minutes later I get a phonecall - from the Madrid girl. Who cannot speak a word of English. I assure her I am outside a certain shop and ask her to jump up and down (shame no webcams to record this).

Finally it looks like they've given up and I let things lie for an hour. Then I email them both;

Quote:

I was waiting at the airport for 2 hours for your stupid contact. I am now in the hotel suite. I have had to put the money and the gifts, including the laptop I bought for you in the hotel safe.

Please confirm you will meet me tomorrow morning at the hotel EARLY to make sure this transaction goes ahead.

I fly back to the UK tomorrow evening.

Today I get a Madrid call but do not answer. I have emailed;

Quote:

Well I am now back in the UK. After your contact didn't show up, I spent a happy couple of hours looking at the Goyas in the gallery.

Should you wish to carry on this transaction, I have decided to reduce the €5000 by 5% to take care of my expenses.

Let me know if you want to progress this.

And last night when all the adrenalin had gone I sat and thought about how easy it would have been to have really gone to Madrid. Three hours on a plane and £70. To find what at the other end?

419Eater is my life Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 299

Quote:

And last night when all the adrenalin had gone I sat and thought about how easy it would have been to have really gone to Madrid. Three hours on a plane and £70. To find what at the other end?

I presume that you mean you were thinking how easy it would have been for a victim to go there, rather than you mean you were considering breaking the rules of safe baiting?

Good work! Laughing

Master Baiter Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 156

LOL Jill you're awesome. Sadly I don't have any similar baits yet - I'm trying! Smile

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:57 am

UbuntuKid wrote:

LOL Jill you're awesome.

lol well thanks but no. Needed a lot of support on this one, thanks to firehouse on email and bluh on chat Smile

Master baiter I am not!

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:47 am

...could have fooled me.... seems like master baiter tactics to me. (and i cannot take much credit, besides suggesting you avoid the fake "diverted flight" approach).

The real trick now is keeping him on the hook and convincing him that you really did travel to Madrid. Remember, your main lad isn't in madrid, and he's the only one you need to convince of this. Probably the best angle is to convince him that his accomplice screwed things up somehow. Or just didn't bother to show up.

I would stop all contact with the Madrid lad, and just write to your original lad - an angry message where you detail your time in Madrid. where you waited, the silliness with the Madrid girl on the phone, etc. And how outraged you are about all of this. with plenty of details to make it look like you were really there.

Looking forward to seeing how this goes!