Whats the most annoying thing a lad has done?

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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:01 pm

For me the most annoying thing is having to look at their f'ing attachments. I guess they are too lazy to copy paste their script in the e-mail, that they just include the document as the attachment itself. Normally I wouldn't care, since I open these attachments under a non-windows environment, but I am getting tired of having to do that just to post scams from my catcher.

Maybe if I replied stating over and over the attachment was corrupt...hrmmm.. So lets hear it, whats the most annoying thing a lad has done?

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:11 pm

Not going along with me and making me work to get them to work. Evil or Very Mad

More seriously, I just ignore the scams with the script in an external attachment (hopefully victims will do the same?); also this if you're bored.

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

I never bother with their attachments.

Most annoying? Scamming victims out of all of their money to the point that the victim is destitute and suicidal.

I'm guessing you mean in the context of baiting? Wink

Talking to them on the phone can be very amusing, but they have this really annoying habit of saying "hello" every five seconds and/or talking when you're talking.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:20 pm

Ima Baeder Wrote

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I'm guessing you mean in the context of baiting?

Well yea, besides the obvious scamming. I am speaking of course from a baiters/scamwarner's point of view.

foo123 Wrote

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More seriously, I just ignore the scams with the script in an external attachment (hopefully victims will do the same?);

I wish it were so, but some would most likely open it, and so thats why I do the same to post it on surplus and scamwarners.com hoping that they would then decide to google and find it there. Either way there is no risk to me, but I am under the impression now that lads are sooo lazy they just include the attachment and usually have little or no text within the body of the email.

Seriously, I once got a scam in my catcher literally saying: "See attachment for business proposal".. .PFF! Rolling Eyes

I have received attachments in the form of plain text, word documents, pdfs, and jpgs.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:32 pm

Not the most annoying thing - but the most horrible: a Love Lad sent me a series of photographs of a man killed in a road accident. Close-up shots. He was claiming they were of his brother. Of course they weren't, but they were of a real person, really hit by a car, and really dead. And really awful.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:33 pm

selfishly continuing to breath in and out when they have no right to the same oxygen as honest people

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:50 pm

Branwen Wrote

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Not the most annoying thing - but the most horrible: a Love Lad sent me a series of photographs of a man killed in a road accident. Close-up shots. He was claiming they were of his brother. Of course they weren't, but they were of a real person, really hit by a car, and really dead. And really awful.

EEEWW!!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:56 pm

one of my lads at the moment is sending me every email twice. Id slap him for it but it probably better he carries on as it may serve as a warning to a real victim

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:02 pm

Oh that too. I got a same scam email 4 times once. The time was exactly the same too, I guess the lad was so afraid of victims not reading his 'very important, urgent business proposal' he had to send it at least 4 times in the same minute to make sure. Rolling Eyes

I find it interesting though that all the scams that come my way hit the spam folder. Maybe only one or two make it into my inbox of my catcher. Then again, thats probably enough for a potential victim unfortunately, since it didn't make it to the spam folder. *sigh*

Another observation, months after making my catcher I began to receive very very few scams, almost down to a trickle. Which is weird, so I 'refreshed' my catcher account on F0nd@ C0x's forum, and the next day the taps were at full blast, so to speak....

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:06 pm

whatsthatcomingoverthehil wrote:

one of my lads at the moment is sending me every email twice. Id slap him for it but it probably better he carries on as it may serve as a warning to a real victim

I've got one that's doing this from two different addresses. I slapped him once for it, so he sent the next one only from one of his addresses, then proceeded to continue sending two copies of everything after that. Confused

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:20 pm

im 2 months into a next of kin scam and i still get the lads opening email in my catcher account every 2nd or 3rd day. he is keen to get em out there but i think he is just using the same send list everytime. Wont tell him though as it would serve as a good warning sign to the real folk out there.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:19 pm

Happy_Slacker wrote:

Maybe if I replied stating over and over the attachment was corrupt...

That's what I do. Just keep claiming it's not opening till they either give up in frustration or actually get off their lazy butts and send their script in a PROPER message!

I haven't had enough really annoying ones yet.
Although the particularly arrogant ones tend to irritate me to the point where I have to really concentrate on not slapping them repeatedly just for existing!
And there is that one I got who was apparently carefully checking every detail I was sending him, coming back and asking why he couldn't locate my address, bank, etc.

Just have to annoy them right back Twisted Evil

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:38 am

Ima Baeder wrote:

Talking to them on the phone can be very amusing, but they have this really annoying habit of saying "hello" every five seconds and/or talking when you're talking.

You hit the nail on the head right there.

Master Baiter Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 209

The "I would advice you to listen to me and ....." really bugs the shit out of me.

They just keep repeating it over and over again in this bullying tone trying to be dominant. I couldn't really care less for myself, and I'd like to think its just part of scamming, but its really depressing to think thats the way they act over there all the time - to their wives, family, parents, other people on the street.

I know not EVERYONE over there acts like it, but I'm sure its the rule rather than the exception. I feel bad for the people over there that get bullied by that type of behavoir, and I can't smack them around and give them the correction I would normally give to an animal that acts like that.

Let me know when I can smack someone through the phone.

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:43 pm

Well here we go, I just got a email with the scam as an attachment, and the body of the email says:

Scammer wrote:

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FROM MR. JAMES ZAZA

JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA

TEL: +27 784 611 951

FAX: 27 865 858 990

E-MAIL: [email protected]

Greetings Friend, 10 February, 2010

Hope all is well.

Please view the attached file to read my massage and get back to me.

Thanks.

Yours faithfully,

MR. JAMES ZAZA.

(Chief Auditor FNB)

Yea, well I ain't f'king doing it. Lazy f'ker! Paste scam in email, or gtfo!

So I sayz:

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I am not able to read your attachment it is broken.

Lets see if I actually get a response with that. Then again according to a thread called "More proof that lads don't read", he will just give me a reply script. UGH!!!!

Master Baiter Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 120 Location: USA

Lad annoying me while he's sitting in prison by having his attorney contact me for help with his release.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 56

Like the posters above said, during phone calls, the sheer highfalutin attitude of lads. They don't let me get a word in edgewise. It's like they think they're more important than just a lowly bank manager.

Also is it just me, or is their West African accent stronger when you first start speaking to them? I can never understand their names, so I never know which bait it is Smile

! I spoke to my lad today, and I couldn't understand the first half of the call, so whenever he would pause, I just said "uh, huh....ok." I understood "application" "bank" and "email", that was it.

The big thing right now has got to be the run on sentences. I get the same ones over and over, like he just copy-pastes them in each new mail.

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Transfer into your bank account I will come down with my family for the shearing of the fund with you that is why I really want to know you in person since you have already received my family picture I sent to you to enable you know me and my family when you come to welcome us in the airport in your country because I know that immediately the bank receive your application form this fund will not take us more then 14 bank working day that is why I need all your information’s

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So that my bank here will believer you because you are from American late Mr Morris Thompson is from American that is my happiness too that is the reason why i want you to apply to bank quickly so that the bank will know that you are the one they are waiting for has a next kind to calm this form out of this bank of Africa Burkina Faso to your country American that is my happiness now because Immediately the bank recivece your Emil they will respond to you quickly Immediately you constant my bank tell them you want the form to be transfer to your bank account quickly ok.

Another thing. The lads saying that their "family picture" proves they are sincere...HA! In this case, my lad sent me the family picture of an old lad of mine, Ahmed Sawadogo. It is puzzling to me now, my current lad has not asked me for ID, only a photograph.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 79

I just had a guy who is supposed to be Haitian send me a pic of a family that was obviously Middle-eastern. At least send the right nationality