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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 3:58 pm

Like he goes straigh to the thing (you want to know) Wink

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 4:07 pm

Ahh Straight to the point Smile

The 'Straight to the Point' (Givsus mortallicum) : Lad who inadvertantly supplies you with his I.P details in the subect header, saving you the effort in finding them out.

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 4:56 pm

Oh, yeah. That's the expression that was on my mind Very Happy

Straight is related to sexual orientation, isnt it? Very Happy

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 5:24 pm

Yes. We have a few Closet lads as well.
Smile

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:01 pm

The Little Piggy (Alanus tohellicum): Scammer who makes feeble excuses for why his account has been closed by Alan.

Quote:

We are sorry to inform you that our agent Lakatos Renato was involved in a car accident and it is no longer able to manage your transaction.
For the moment the account we provided you is closed and all the activies related to it are suspended.

^^

{Agent Lakatos Renato cried 'weeweeweewee' all the way home }

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=184447&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:47 pm

The Prickly; a subset of the Prude - a Lad who doesn't take to mild insults. For example (Lad in italics):

Quote:

You should not have sent that ID - I've deleted it and made sure. The interweb is not secure! Don't you people ever learn?

Quote:

Now,the issue of document i sent to you,I demand an apology from you for making that insultive statement (Don't you people ever learn?).

BTW, Wowwow - are you going to add The Understudy, The Shame of West Point, and The Gormless to the roster?

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 4:24 pm

Yastreb, thanks for the prompt. I'll put them right up.

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 4:52 pm

Guys, big weekly update of masterlist. Thanks to yastreb and mortal for some great catches this week.
I have some plans to knock up some sort of family tree. As we identify more 'species' there seems to be certain behaviour patterns emerging.
The main behaviour pattern, and one you probably have already worked out, is that most scammers are 'thick as shit' and crazy to boot Smile

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Keep sending in your finds.
One for the weekend.

The Viral (Viralus galleriicum): Scammer who sends in video of themselves being most ignorant, and gets a zillion hits on Face-Tube. Send your links to good examples Smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0FV5fW8dXA

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 5:48 pm

The Undertaker (Mortalus tohellicum): Lad who sends dumb e-mails claiming they are acting on behalf of a close relative who has died some two years previously. Not understanding that you might have just spoken to said relative some 30 minutes previous and are quite sure they are not a ghost. Made even more pointless by that fact that the first thing you are going to do on receipt of the e-mail is to call said relative to make sure they are ok.

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=184605

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 6:23 pm

Three from one lad and this great post.
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=178413&start=50&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

The Egyptian a.k.a The TWAT (Pyramidia galleriicum): Lad who sends pictures of the cement bag pyramid he has just spent weeks and his own cash building.

The Pharmacist (Quackus tohellicum): Lad who espouses poor medical knowledge, or asks you to quit smoking for your health, even though you have told him you are dying of cancer. Probably worried you might 'snuff it' before you can send the cash.

The Denim (Jeanus galleriicum): Lad whos sends photos of himself in jeans that look so old and baggy, that even fashionistas would think that there were just one too many worn patches and holes in them.

http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu85/masteroflads/TWAT/?action=view¤t=DSC_0838.jpg

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:23 pm

The 'Better late than Never' (Tardius tohellicum): Lad who wakes up to the fact he was baited months after you stopped baiting him.

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=184610&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

The Al Capone (Gansteris tohellicum): Lad who claims to be, or to work for a big time gangster. When we all know that he couldn't be more small time if he took and ate your luchtime sandwich from the fridge at work.

Quote:

I want to tell you something... I work for a respectable men in my country (a dangerous gangster with connections in more countries, if you understand me) . If I want I can find you anywhere. I've heard enough threats from your boys. I'm not a stupid person as you think...

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 9:19 pm

The Sticky - A lad who carries with the scam attempt, even after seeing it on Eater

The Returner (Laddus Desperandii) - The lad that tries again with you months after you first baited him

The Trunk Boi - Sends you the photo of the two cash laden trunks

The Repeater - (Laddus wontshutupus) keeps sending you the same scam script over and over

The Sex Change Lad (written)- email starts as 'Mr' ends as 'Mrs'

The Sex Change lad (telephone) - puts on a falsetto vocie trying to imitate a woman on the phone

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 11:28 pm

Inspector Gadget wrote:

The Sticky - A lad who carries with the scam attempt, even after seeing it on Eater

The Sex Change Lad (written)- email starts as 'Mr' ends as 'Mrs'

The Sticky is a subset of The Enmeshed, I think.

The Sex Change Lad (written) is already in - "Victor/Victoria".

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 1:43 am

The Matchmaker and The Petname Generator: (Koko desperandiitokokocum)- When a lad calls your character a name like "My Princess" or "My Baby" as if your hers/his and then tries to set you up with a guy/gal if you are single.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:33 am

Good stuff guys. Some of these we already sort of have but they have nice traits, and it's nice to see examples along with them. I'm not going to be a stickler (actually I am) about the Latin naming conventions but these are usually named after their finder such that it's a bit like a siggy Smile

Also I will split out any that show different behaviours into single species.

The Sticky (name used)
~How about

The Eaten (Baitedus gadgeticum): A lad who carries on with the scam attempt, even after seeing it on Eater

The Trunk Boi (Trunkus gadgeticum): Sends you the photo of the two cash laden trunks.

The Repeater (name used)

~How about
The Repeat Offender (Repeatus gadgeticum): Keeps sending you the same scam script over and over.

The Returner (Comeagaini gadgeticum): The lad that tries again with you months after you first baited him

The Sex Change Lad & The Sex Change lad (telephone) found.

The Matchmaker (Matchus kokoicum): Lad who tries to set you up with a guy/gal if you are single.

The Petname Generator (Partnerus kokoicum): A lad who calls you "My Princess" or "My Baby" as if you are her/his boyfriend/girlfriend

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:59 am

The Celebrity (Famus galleriicum): Lad who sends fake ID that looks uncannily like a known celebrity
... Jerry Springer anyone
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=272&mode=prev#TopPic

The No ID'er (Nulidus galleriicum): Lad who sends in very lame ID, puts DOB as 00/00/00 and gives themselves ridiculous job titles such as
"Original Manager of ICB BANK Of GHANA"
is that like "Original Coke" .. they just rebranded the old job?

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=269&mode=prev#TopPic

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 2:28 pm

The "Whats up Doc!" (Bunnibuggeris galleriicum): Lad who sends photos of themselves attempting rear entry on some unwilling Leporidae (That's wabbits to you Bub)

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=286 Laughing

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 5:52 pm

Under Photogenic, is there space for the Morris Men? can't remember who owns that particular group of lads, but they have been faithful over the years.

And the other one I forgot, the Stunt Man,Bombardier's lad that set him self on fire amongst ovther things. (Stuntus Bombardierus?)

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:24 pm

wowwow wrote:

I've also found an old example of
The Titled (Majoria tohellicum): Self important scammer who gives their character over inflated titles, often completely messing them up.

Quote:

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal, Al Hajji, Dr. Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in general and Uganda in particular, and Commander- in- Chief of the Uganda armed forces

Idi Awo-Ongo Angoo Dada, later known as the Butcher of Uganda, titled himself also as the Last King of Scotland and the Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea.

Shocked

He was known also as a great medal lover.

More here.

Sorry OT.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 7:36 pm

I have a lad who insist we meet half-way around the globe (if you live in Western Africa) so he can travel with me and meet me in person.

Second time a lad has decided mid-bait he wanted to meet me in person.

Is it a new sub-species ?

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:20 pm

Inspector Gadget wrote:

Under Photogenic, is there space for the Morris Men? can't remember who owns that particular group of lads, but they have been faithful over the years.

And the other one I forgot, the Stunt Man,Bombardier's lad that set him self on fire amongst ovther things. (Stuntus Bombardierus?)

Yes of course
The Morris Men (Hankiwaverus gadgeticum): Lads who dress up like Morris men for group photographs.

The loony stunt man guy who set his legs on fire is already sort of filed under the masochists.
The Daredevil (Darus masacosii): Gains pleasure from setting their legs on fire.
But we can add
The Unknown Stuntman (Stuntus bombardicum): A masochist lad who performs bizzare stunts for the camera.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:27 pm

MoutonBlanc wrote:

I have a lad who insist we meet half-way around the globe (if you live in Western Africa) so he can travel with me and meet me in person.

Second time a lad has decided mid-bait he wanted to meet me in person.

Is it a new sub-species ?

Yes definately, nice find.

The Travel Partner (Ticketus moutonblancus): Safari Lad who insists you meet half-way around the globe so he can travel with you and meet you in person.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:31 pm

Quote:

Idi Awo-Ongo Angoo Dada, later known as the Butcher of Uganda, titled himself also as the Last King of Scotland and the Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea.

There is no disputing this guy was a loon of the first magnitude. Having lived in East Africa in the early part of my life, I know he was greatly feared in that part of the world.
He could have added, "Master of the moon bees, conqueror of cheese, and Lord of the flies", that would have rounded it out nicely.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:41 pm

^Yes, and I've heard it wasn't exactly a pleasant surprise to see Idi Amin pushing the shopping cart in a supermarket in Jeddah when you were buying your groceries.

Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 2:30 pm

The Insulted (Insultus tohellicum):Lads who respond with puerile laddish or true indignation to mass abuse baits.