Lad wants me to travel - ? kidnapping me?

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Master Baiter Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

I have a lad and doesn't seem to want to use WU. He wants me to travel to Ghana to pick up 20 kilos of gold etc. etc. Just wondering.. is this an attempt at kidnaping me? Darwin's beard !!.. that's scary .. How should i bait him. I was thinking of flying into the wrong airport in ghana so he has to travel and pick me up at 4am?

Master Baiter Joined: 20 Nov 2010 Posts: 241 Location: UK

Sounds perfect to me. Or an emergency landing in a neighbouring country.

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:54 am

All of my gold-selling lads have wanted me to travel to Ghana to meet them before paying. None of them got far because they all refused to go any further unless they talked with me on the phone.

Kidnapping and theft are the two reasons that pop to mind, but I can't say for sure.

insults and more · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:59 am

Gold lads are creepy that way. Many of their modalities involve getting the victim to travel to their country with a wad of cash, to be robbed and perhaps killed.

Reports of gold scam victims being killed remind us that although lads may seem like clueless, semi-literate morons, they are in fact ruthless criminals. This is why we bait safely, and make sure to give them hell.

Oh: check out the list of example scams here: http://www.419baiter.com/scam_e-mail_examples.html as well as Eater's surplus letters forum. You'll get a good idea of the different genres of scams.

I'd still like to find out whether gold lads are, as I think, the most dangerous (as in "thrown into a swamp" rather than "stealing every cent you have and leaving you homeless") type. Does anyone know of any good statistics on this?

Master Baiter Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

Yip, the phone call is tough, but I've already convinced him I'm deaf and can't take calls.

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:38 pm

khawk wrote:

Yip, the phone call is tough, but I've already convinced him I'm deaf and can't take calls.

I couldn't do that because I had alrady convinced him that I was a top executive at a huge company that bought and sold gold, silver, platinum, uranium, plutonium, and other precious materials and that I was constantly travelling to Africa. I gave him a K7 number, but he wouldn't accept that I was in meetings all the time and too busy to call him back.

419Eater is my life Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 445

Gold lads are fun. If you can't take / place a call, I'd suggest creating a new character and getting another member here to help out if possible.

One of my gold safari's was done with only a <30 second call to get him there. Some straight baiting and 1 'I'm leaving for the airport now, contact me when you get there. Bye' call Smile

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:11 pm

I like to bait gold lads. It's something of a specialty of mine, and yeah, they always want you to come to their country. I usually tell them that while I'm actually going on an African roundtrip soon, their country is not on my schedule, unfortunately, and furthermore, the schedule is real tight, so it's not possible to take a detour. And by lucky coincidence, my travel plans always include countries bordering to that of the lad. Wink

If you're interested to join the Association of Independent Stone & Metal Importers, please follow the link in my siggy. Wink

Master Baiter Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

Ok, so I'm flying into kotoca airport within the week. This is nearest to the lad's home. Now, the questioning have is should I keep this meeting and get him up a 4am to wait for me or should I go for broke and try to get an airport 200k from there and get my safari cap?

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 4747

Real vics that have traveled to meet their mugus have been kidnapped in the past.

Master Baiter Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 139

What are so good examples of gold lad baits I can read? I'm interested.

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:20 pm

Right here: http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193410

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:34 pm

khawk wrote:

Ok, so I'm flying into kotoca airport within the week. This is nearest to the lad's home. Now, the questioning have is should I keep this meeting and get him up a 4am to wait for me or should I go for broke and try to get an airport 200k from there and get my safari cap?

Is your flight direct?
If there's a layover, your deaf character can easily end up on a flight to Togo. Wink

Lome is about a 4-5 hour drive from Accra and as Lome is right on the border, it's easy to get to.
Crossing a border on a safari is also worthy of a pith helmet. (see my siggy!) Wink

Once in Lome airport, have your character helped by a really friendly taxi driver - if you are carrying a serious lump of $$, your lad just might panic..
Taxi driver lives in Hedzranawoe region of Lome, not far from "Hotel 2nd Fevrier" (you can meet your lad there?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Fevrier_Sofitel_Hotel
You have no "See-fah" (CFA = Togo currency) and you daren't open your suitcase so you can't make your way into Ghana.
Battery fading on your laptop
Taxi driver is giving your suitcase a hard stare
Hellllp... Smile

Just a suggestion....

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