How to WIMP your lad!

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 6:42 pm

I invented this modality a number of years ago and wanted to take a moment to introduce the newer baiters to WIMP.

Here is what you do:

(a) Straight bait for a week or so until you build a rapport. Tell your lad that you want to make sure you can trust him. Drop hints that you have a secret you want to share with him.

(b) Tell him your secret - you work for WU (or MG, if you prefer). Give yourself a fancy title ("Director of Security Protocols for Africa, 4th Subdistrict").

(c) Every year thousands of mtcn's don't get picked up. most are small ($50 or $100 or so) but some are large. If you are working for WU, tell the lad that these abandoned mtcn's drop off the internet after 6 months (they can no longer be checked on the WU website) but they are still available for pickup.

(d) In your capacity as Director, you have lists of thousands of abandoned mtcn's from 8 countries in Africa (unfortunately, where ever the lad happens to be is NOT one of your countries. Shame.)

(e) You can reactivate these abandoned mtcn's for a few brief hours so that they can be picked up. It would be suspicious if a senior employee such as yourself traveled to Africa and then lots of abandoned mtcn's are picked up, so you need a helper in Africa.

(f) Here's the deal: as a test, you will reactive 20 MTCN's. You will give him the list of numbers, and other info. he will pick up the money for the 20 mtcn's at WU, then go to MG to send you 1/2 of the money. (since you work for WU, it would be suspicious if you got a large transfer from AFrica, so he needs to send you money via MG).

(g) Once you have received half of the money for the first batch of 20, you will activate additional batches of MTCN's - some of these may be larger amounts, since you can pick out the "best" MTCN's to reactive. Each time he picks up a batch, he sends you one-half the money, then you will activate another batch.

(h) CATCH: He has to pick up all these MTCN's from one particular WU employee whom you trust -- his name is Simon and he is in Accra (or where ever you think you can talk the lad to go to). Only Simon can be trusted not to blow the whistle when all these MTCN's start getting picked up by one person.

(i) So, the mugu has to go to Accra, then e-mail or call to confirm he is in Accra (which gives you an IP address as proof of travel), then you will reactivate MTCN's for a few glorious hours while the lad picks up the money.

(j) Alas, when he arrives in Accra, there is bad news -- a surprise audit is underway in your office and you CANNOT be reactivating old MTCN's until the audit is over -- the lad has to sit tight and be patient. Hopefully until he is stredded.

(k) Your original character goes silent.

(l) Some days later, when the lad returns home, he gets an e-mail from Inspector Clouseau of the WU Internal Security Service. It seems your original character has been arrested for fraud. He succeeded in erasing his computer's hard drive and the only clue Clouseau has is a piece of paper with the lad's e-mail address. WU is offering a $25K reward for assistance in the investigation. The inspector is willing to fly to Africa, meet the lad at an inconvenient location, interview him, and give him 25k. The lad will get immunity - no arrest! and all he has to do is show up at th meeting (a double safari).

Good luck!

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3876

as an extra (diverting at point i, but do the confirmation of his position)

if you actually wimped a lad to another country, and he found out that the mtcn was dead (that will happen for sure), then you can say: yes, there was this risk that someone could have picked up that mtcn earlier, because it is something a lot WU/MG clerks do.

but there is a mtcn which I can revive in 3 days from now, and this mtcn is worth XXX dollars (more than the initial one).

this way, the lad may stay at the location where he was safaried. or maybe he goes even a bit further (lagos to accra, and then maybe abidjan Twisted Evil

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:07 pm

Still a brilliant modality, Bruin -- thanks for the primer!

The only thing I've never been able to get answered is what exactly does "WIMP" stand for?

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:26 pm

Western Union Inside Man Protocol.

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:19 pm

WIMP is a great modality, so great that numerous baiters sat down and created helpful tools to support the modality. Most of these tools are now defunct, but at least one has survived the Teeth of Time:

https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=209089

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:07 pm

The "convincer" was a faked screen shot of an alleged WU administrator's screen. with information about an alleged "abandoned mtcn" and security warnings, etc.

At the bottom of the screen was a button: Do you wish to reactive this MTCN now? "YES" "NO"

It was great!

If anybody has the creative talent to create a convincing but fake screenshot, it would be wonderful!

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:05 pm

I'm a big fan of this modality, absolutely brilliant Bruin.

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:15 pm

I used this without any Bells and Whistles to send a Lad to Kano once. Worked like a charm..for me.

It is brilliant and effective.

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:39 am

This is a nice modality! I have also used a few variations in the past when talking to a lad.. get him thinking I am an "american lad" and I can do this as well.. Reminds me. I need to make a few calls again.

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:54 am

My first safari was courtesy of Bruin's WIMP.

Look in my siggy .... Laughing

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:46 am

Bruin, I faked a screenshot for this one. If anyone wants it, shoot me a PM and I'll give you the link. I'd post it here, but I don't know if that'd be a good idea.

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:53 pm

^^^
Smart move. This is not under log-in and I doubt we want it available to search engines.