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Master of Master Baiters Joined: 18 Oct 2012 Posts: 611

All right! I'm just about to get started on my first bait! The guy calls himself "Professor Martin Adams". Let's see if I can waste some of his time hm? Wish me luck!

Oh, and a quick question...is it generally better to go one scam bait at a time, or can we bait multiple scammers at once? What would you recommend?

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:49 pm

If you're starting out, do one at a time. I have just one bait going; it's been running since January and looks likely to turn into a sandtimer. I've had as many as six, but I had to thin them out, so I arranged for the son of two of my characters to be stung by a jellyfish.

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:51 am

Do what you feel comfortable with. Depending upon work, real life and the like; the possibilities are endless.

Personally having only one bait going at a time just isn't all that satisfying (for me). I have, however, had so many going in the past that I simply got overwhelmed. As someone who is somewhat disorganized and carefree, I have been known to screw up some fine opportunities. Yesterday, in fact, I was chatting with a couple long standing Lads (at the same time) and kinda screwed up since I was also 'Working' at the same time. I was able to recover but I actually signed off using my real name. Luckily when questioned, I was able to tell the Lad that it was a Scottish expression....

I have several Baiter accounts and pick whatever strikes my fancy on a given day. If something such as a Hitlad comes my way then yeah I'm going to add it into my 'routine' but that's just me.

All in all this isn't a job but a hobby, so have fun and do what you do best.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 30 Mar 2012 Posts: 949

Gigglesworth, welcome to Eater! If you haven't already, you can sign up for a mentor here:

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/cherrie_mentor_program.php

Also make sure and read all the sticky posts at the top of the forums, there is a lot of great information there for beginners.

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

You can practice on your current lad. See what works and what doesn't, then you can go to the "Surplus" forum here and pick a few fresh lads to bait.

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 4:57 am

Hey Giggles, welcome to Eater Smile

The surplus boards are always a good place to start if you haven't set up a catcher account yet. When I first started out I realized from early that my characters who sounded like ordinary, normal people were much sought after.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 18 Oct 2012 Posts: 611

Thanks for all the helpful advice! I do have a pretty busy schedule, so maybe one for now!

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:13 pm

Welcome,

Another thing you can do when reply to lads when you first start baiting is to think about your character and how he/she was a RL person might respond to an email from a lad. Don't think as a "baiter" yet.

Also just one email/one question (comment) per day and don't work on weekends. In other words, a RL person would not be sitting at their computer all day (like some of us baiters do) so you want to make it "real" There may be a need later on when you have a lad hooked that you can send more than one email per day to the lad, but not recommended starting out.

Starting out I would recommend having one lad, while you are reading the stickies, Eater U and dialoging with your mentor.