Guy talks night

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Wannabe Baiter Joined: 29 Aug 2011 Posts: 83

I've just finished a rough and ready program that converts English into "guy talk" roughly based on the rules laid out here: http://www.419hell.com/Nigerian_Scam_Baiting/Write_Like_a_Nigerian_Scammer.html

Just wondered if anybody wants to download it and if there's any suggestions for improvement: http://www.box.net/shared/gk0f6mrhme2ixjscm97x

It's pretty simple to use: just type English in the upper text box, press translate and your "guy talk" comes out the bottom. You can then copy and paste that text into your e-mail.

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:46 pm

Is it something like this? http://translatetext.freehostia.com/lad/lad.html

(http://translatetext.freehostia.com/)

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 29 Aug 2011 Posts: 83

Ahhh, my Google search never showed that up. Embarassed

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:05 pm

This thread has lots of good tools: Baiting toolkits - Forms - Cool Stuff. I must have gotten it from there or somewhere else on Eater.

I am sure your program is good too. I just prefer not to download something if I don't have to. Very Happy

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 29 Aug 2011 Posts: 83

Don't worry it's cool (it's not malware if that's what you mean.) It's fairly simple in the way it works: it splits a string object into a generic list of strings representing the words of the sentence (by detecting space characters,) performs word substitution based upon a lookup table (which I wanted to make sure was complete,) adds random spelling and punctuation errors and then puts the whole thing back together using a StringBuilder object.

I'll do some more work on it since I prefer programs on my computer to programs on the internet, but from what I've read on that page it performs essentially the same tasks.