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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:24 pm

It is a sad fact of life that screwing with someone else's head can be a great deal of fun.By the time we grow out of our teenage years,we learn to control it.The scammers we screw with can and do huge amounts of damage to innocent people.By messing with them as we do we slow them down,annoy them,and expend their resources.We are doing something polite society frowns on for the best of causes.

Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:33 pm

I am as commited to fight scammers as are those kamikaze bombers who blow themselves up for youknowwhat for their cause.
I know this makes me no better, but this is one of my causes.

Somehow I am sorry for the poor buggers... But they could find REAL jobs if they wanted to. Instead they want to make a lot of money the quick way.
This is illegal in many countries and unethical in most of them.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 19

Because I plan on counting all the time that I spend baiting as community service hours. Don't know what for yet, but I will use it somehow.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:26 am

^^Yea... Maybe I try to attune for some sins I've committed. Maybe I am too much into Star Wars and Jedi stuff. Or into Buddhism; or Sufi Islam.
Maybe I admire El Che; or Ghandi.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:00 am

N.O.R.A wrote:

^ Not really, TM. Otherwise, I'm polygamist and other things I prefer not to mention here. Embarassed

Ah well, I like to think I'm open-minded Wink

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:13 am

I really don't have time for nary a one of ya. Laughing

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:19 am

I'm in it for the cross-cultural experience. Wink

Seriously, I like to think that I can make a lad doubt if future victims are real. And I enjoy jerking around bad guys who can't retaliate.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:38 am

polygamist - is that someone who folds paper?

Quote:

The net is a remarkably useful tool, yet it is also dangerous.

Scammers are a big threat, operating in the shadows of anonymity.

Victims are usually at a vulnerable stage in their lives when unfortunately they come into contact with a professional, callous and ruthless thief.

I bait them to form reports to alert and warn others by detailing their lies and methods.

I get satisfaction knowing that their crimes are google-able.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:32 am

Quote:

I've never tasted squirrel poo and never will. Can you describe it?

It tastes kinda like chocolate chip cookies, actually!
With a slightly cranky aftertaste.

(End of thread hijack - please don't ban me now, mods. Or if you have to, throw me into the cell next to Steward, will you?)

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:10 am

I bait partly because I got annoyed by the drizzle of scam letters, and partly because it's something I like doing; the occasional words of praise from Eater members also count.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:19 am

I bait because I can vent my dark side on the lads and not get into trouble. Laughing

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:48 am

Where am I?

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:10 am

I came here to meet Corona.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:08 pm

I just woke up here one day and decided I better try and fit in.....

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:59 pm

I'm here because I hate to see thieves prosper. That and, where else can you get to be mean to people, lie to them, mislead them, make fools of them and it is a clear moral benefit to the universe. Oh, and its fun.

Yastreb, you are awesome.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:09 pm

I'm here because I hate to think there are people getting away with these scams. I get this perverse pleasure thinking of these lads lapping up everything we spin them with no gain for them whatsoever. And, well, its a frikkin crapload of fun!!!!!!!

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:12 pm

I was nearly a victim myself. Woman intuition kicked in and I saw holes in his stories. I began to research scammers and I found someone's baits...read them all...thought they were brilliant...and decided to try it out. Now I find pleasure in the suffering of lads.

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:34 pm

Just trying to give the lads as much of the pain and humiliation they give their victims. Twisted Evil

It also fun. Laughing

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:57 pm

I remember when I was 13 years old. I remember "toying" with a lad by using a Russian-English "Online translator and he would type posts in Russian and then in the subject bar it say "Can't you find anyone who speaks English" Laughing

Good times, good times!

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:35 pm

Caligula wrote:

The reason why I joined eater almost a year ago was revenge. Now it's not so much revenge anymore, it's more wanting to prevent these things happening to others.

I could not have said it any better.

Keep up the good work.

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:28 am

I like kicking cyber ass!

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:41 pm

Sense of justice, a last-ditch try to clean my karma, and a constant research for test subjects for my psychology experiments Very Happy

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:33 pm

N.O.R.A wrote:

and other things I prefer not to mention here.

You do realise that saying that only makes me curious don't you? Wink

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:31 pm

Absolutely, Technomancer. Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

I detest criminals.