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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:47 am

We could fix it; but then what would you learn Dorothy?

Master Baiter Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 101

As a noob, I've taken a half way house approach.

I read the stickies and lurked on the message board a bit before responding to any lads. Basically, I tried to understand best way to avoid leaving a trace of personal info with email/phone/word docs etc.

However, I purposely didn't sign up for a mentor. Yes, I know I'm going to make mistakes (already made many) ... but its an enjoyable learning experience.

Its not that I don't appreciate advice - I do and welcome help. More that I believe you sometimes learn more from making errors.

Downside of this is of course, "you don't know what you don't know" (apologies to Donald Rumsfield.)

Just my tuppenny worth.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:50 am

Luther Blissett wrote:

Let's see...

On Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:19 pm, jojobean in his first post wrote:

Does anyone have a blank Western Union Transfer document that I may use to torture my beloved mugu? I am sure they are around but I have been unable to locate one. Thanks guys.

Fascinating post, Luther. My first post was about a snail mail scam letter I'd received, and, I'm ashamed to say, mentioned the fluffy kitty-cat "B" word Embarassed

coronalight wrote:

BTW, I'm still finding stickies. Confused

Damn things are everywhere. Still scraping them off my shoes.

Mod edit: combined the posts, since they were one minute apart. TS

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:59 am

Yeah!

Every darn where. Wink

Think I'm on my last one and then they will start another. Razz

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:07 pm

Mike wrote:

Fascinating post, Luther. My first post was about a snail mail scam letter I'd received, and, I'm ashamed to say, mentioned the fluffy kitty-cat "B" word Embarassed

I told you Mike, that post was a joke. Just to make people think I wasn't already an expert. Remember, "I had been doing this for years".

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 7103 Location: Yes

Hey, whoa....cool forum roflmao. Ummm, so what's "batting" all about? LOL!! Can you get some cash out of these Nigerian fellows? I have this friend who was scammed once and I'm writing a book about it. It's going to be like 18 pages long and will give everyone the ins and outs of batting. Super! Anyway just saying "hi" -- new here! And what's with the mentors? I've been here 5 mins and NO MENTOR HAS BEEN ASSIGNED!!! Hello??

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:49 pm

Welcome JMRazor, I hope you like it here. Make sure you bait safe, pick an email that will strip your IP (fastmail.fm, hushmail, gmail spring to my mind) and sign up for a mentor. Please feel free to post every question you might have in our snuggly little forum and I'm sure we'll all be happy to help you with your first steps. Let me take this opportunity to be the first to welcome you to 419Eater and I for one am terribly excited and happy you have decided to join the ranks! Pretty Rose

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:57 pm

I can feel the pulses of sarcasm radiating off the screen..

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:07 pm

You don't say? Shocked

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:36 pm

Just voicing my opinion here:

I still consider myself a n00b, I PM my mentor silly (thanks Krona for sticking with me, with all my stupid questions!) and I am very thankful for all the help he gives me and all the tips, and my more stupid questions ( axemen, 7 dragons, pink ponies, now I must stop before the moderators find the keys to this post! Laughing

), he gracefully rejects with a direction to the search function in this forum.
I see the senior members of this forum and the moderators as the ones who have been there, and try to learn from everything they say and have posted.
The stickies I have read and re-read more often than not. I use the search function as well, if I don't know something. Only trouble I have is that when trying the search, my search gives so much results I drown in them, or gives none at all. That is a bit of a pity, so then I do post, and hope I don't sound too stupid. Embarassed

And some n00bs are a bit too cocky for my opinion, and I wish they quickly learn how to appreciate all the help they can get here.

Right, that was my opinion, I' ll go back stand in the n00b corner and keep quiet.... Razz

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:20 pm

M1d0r1 wrote:

However, I purposely didn't sign up for a mentor. Yes, I know I'm going to make mistakes (already made many) ... but its an enjoyable learning experience.

Its not that I don't appreciate advice - I do and welcome help. More that I believe you sometimes learn more from making errors.

You don't know it yet, but Dr Who just fell in love with you. Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:59 pm

Of course we do sometimes get visits from highly trained special services personnel with links to the CIA, Interpol, KGB and other organisations who have worked deep undercover on covert operations for many years and know who and where all the scammers are but they can't tell us as it might jeopardise their mission. They usually pick a cunning ID like "SpecialOpsMan" or "TangoBravo" and have the SAS badge as their avatar. Naturally they don't need a mentor and wouldn't ask for one anyway because they operate on a Need To Know basis and if a mentor found out too much about their top secret missions they'd have to kill him.

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1269

JMRazor wrote:

And what's with the mentors? I've been here 5 mins and NO MENTOR HAS BEEN ASSIGNED!!! Hello??

Yeah, cause you need to send Cherrie a PM every 3 minutes until he gives you one. That's the only way he knows you're serious about baiting.

/me waits for Cherrie to send her 15 mentees at once for that comment

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

@Gnasher, you reminded me of the guy who thought it was safe to give out his real work phone number, against massive in-thread warnings, because he worked in an FBI field office. He may have been safe, but he didn't find it comfortable talking to a scammer on the office phone, in work time. Laughing

I don't particularly mind the "what do I do now" posts, because I remember how scary it was to actually be talking to a scammer for the first time, and how my mind went totally blank as soon as I hit the reply button.

My first post: Embarassed

I wrote:

So far as I can see, there is no way that a program on your computer can totally hide your IP address. It might pretend to be a transparent proxy and pass a false address, but if someone had a mind to do it they could still find out your address.

Since it's talking about Jap, I was totally wrong.

419Eater is my life Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 356

M1d0r1 wrote:

However, I purposely didn't sign up for a mentor. Yes, I know I'm going to make mistakes (already made many) ... but its an enjoyable learning experience.

I did that too, although for a different reason. I decided to go with trial-and-error because it goes straight to proving an idea doesn't work in practice and cuts out the part where, told ahead of time that it wouldn't work, I probably would have argued obsessively over the theory behind the idea.

Granted, I'm still not a great baiter, but at least I never made a complete pain of myself. Very Happy

It is an absolute MIRACLE that my first bait lasted a month.

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:34 am

DoloresOnTheDottedLine wrote:

It is an absolute MIRACLE that my first bait lasted a month.

Yes, but baiting Radden is like shooting fish in a barrel. Laughing

419Eater is my life Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 356

^
Yes. Getting close to three months now on THAT bait and it's going exceptionally well. Laughing

I'll now make an effort not to hijack this thread any further!

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