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bearkat419
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 4445
Location: Houston, TX
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:32 pm |
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For me, it was randomly surfing the internet one night and stumbling across a site with a blatantly racist name where the guy publishes his baits. I won't link to it because most of you probably have an idea anyway and it doesn't belong here. When I got through laughing hysterically at his antics I started looking for more and found this great community that makes a point to avoid ITPs, any hint of racism, and teach safe baiting. |
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MrMystery314
Djinn and Tonic
Joined: 13 Dec 2014
Posts: 2077
Location: Herding penguins
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:36 pm |
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It was the Turd bait for me; I signed up originally to read all of it, but I didnβt start baiting in earnest (besides an occasional βletβs send out a few emails and hunt piggiesβ) until the summer of 2017 when Lake Amour and Jayhawk let me tag along with the Humphere bait. |
_________________ π π¦ π° π° π° x26
"ALL THE SAME NOT AN UNGRATEFUL BITCH"-Mr. Humphere
"Bro i have seen hell"-Mr. Humphere
"Also i know how inquisitive all this press can be, i hope the picture of the goat fucking me is not on news or news paper"-Mr. Humphere
"GO TO HELL JUSTIN for having played with me all these while, what the fuck is wrong with you you are such as an asshole"-Charles J Colocino JR
"I will tell you I'm a computer illiterate I know more than you" - Eric Marshall
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Linoline
Dume Dutch Bag
Joined: 06 Apr 2018
Posts: 4453
Location: When life gives you melons you might be dyslectic
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:45 pm |
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I was targeted by a romance scammer on facebook. Played a little with him (I know, not safe, I realized that afterwards, but my facebook is pretty well closed off, so he couldn't really know anything about my RL). I had some fun, found this site and decided to play some more, because it's fun to give those assholes some of the feelings they give to their victims. |
_________________ x5 x1204 x155 x30 x4 x3 x1 x2 π π°
My Collection of lad frustration
"I never taught you to be evil. But carry on" - Oscarpiles
"You are diabolically evil...." - Sparky905
"It really sucks to be a scamming lad around Linoline." Conny L. Gus
"You put money in the parcel now am suffering you are not helping" Sven
"You put me through this with all the bastard you called your client" Daniboy
"I know you wanna bring me to Netherlands so you will suck my blood and eat my flesh" - Calimero |
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Zombini
419Eater is my life
Joined: 17 Apr 2019
Posts: 283
Location: My favorite place on Earth
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:28 pm |
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I listened to the episode of This American Life about scambaiting. Fell in love with the concept immediately. My parents weren't comfortable with the idea at the time, but now that I'm an adult I can do whatever I want! (within reason, of course!) |
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"See fool fuck off u dy proud chop and die idiot I get my money too"-Tom
"Am ready to work with you guy buy anytime am close something wrong always happens please let make it stop"-Tom |
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Nathan
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 17 Jun 2017
Posts: 55
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:16 pm |
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Found James Vietch's TED Talk on YouTube, and then watched all his scambaiting sketches. Never had any concept of scambaiting before that point. |
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bearkat419
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 4445
Location: Houston, TX
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 11:12 pm |
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Linoline I am glad you realized it wasn't safe and found better ways to bait. A lot of folks make that rookie mistake - once you realize it just drop them and move on and it should be ok in most cases. |
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Deano_37
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 24 Aug 2019
Posts: 3
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Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:28 pm |
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Nathan wrote: |
Found James Vietch's TED Talk on YouTube, and then watched all his scambaiting sketches. Never had any concept of scambaiting before that point. |
Thats exactly how I discovered scambaiting. Veitch's baits were hilarious |
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MrMystery314
Djinn and Tonic
Joined: 13 Dec 2014
Posts: 2077
Location: Herding penguins
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Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:12 pm |
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James Veitch has excellent delivery, although his baits pale in comparison to what people do here. It would be interesting to try and get in contact with him to see if anything could happen that way, although I imagine he is too busy to consort with the likes of us. One could send his agent an email if we wanted to, although I don't see much point. He did publish a book of his unedited transcripts from scambaiting, but given his Youtube videos I imagine it's all somewhat tame.
Eater could use a new advertising campaign of some sort... |
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"ALL THE SAME NOT AN UNGRATEFUL BITCH"-Mr. Humphere
"Bro i have seen hell"-Mr. Humphere
"Also i know how inquisitive all this press can be, i hope the picture of the goat fucking me is not on news or news paper"-Mr. Humphere
"GO TO HELL JUSTIN for having played with me all these while, what the fuck is wrong with you you are such as an asshole"-Charles J Colocino JR
"I will tell you I'm a computer illiterate I know more than you" - Eric Marshall
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Yastreb
Common Street Thawth Vergabon
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
Posts: 17388
Location: Leading my wolf pack
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Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:47 pm |
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I began to bait in a totally amateur way back in 2005, not really sure what I'd achieve, but I did bait safe in a way - my email didn't identify me and I used an alias.
Then a friend told me about Scamorama, and I used some of the baits there for inspiration; after a time I followed a link there to Eater, and the rest is history. |
_________________ Son of a bitch!!! Your dead!!! Everything about your stinking poor life is dead!!! Get off my way you son of a bitch mother ....a man without father bastard....your dead Ok
May you never se the end of the year, May you sick and die in JESUS NAME AMEN.
MARK MY WORD, YOU SHALL FALL SICK, IF YOU DONT PLEASE WITH ME, YOU SHALL DIE OF THE SICKNESS, THIS IS MY FINAL WORD TO YOU
I HAVE PLACED YOU UNDER MY ORACLE GODS,
YOU SHALL CRY AND BEG FOR FORGIVENESS OR YOU DIE
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x 5 - Oyenka Chidinma Lagos-Cotonou; Dickyboi Lagos-Accra; Femmy Lagos-Porto Novo; "Woody" Accra-Singapore; Henry Philip Abuja-Natitingou w/MG & DSW
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4X1X9
Baiting Guru
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
Posts: 5905
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Mon Aug 26, 2019 3:14 pm |
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A. Skinner & Shiver sending a scammer to Glasgow!
https://www.419eater.com/html/mohamed_lucien.htm
The phone calls when they realise they've been swerved are priceless! |
_________________ I can sense tunes of unnecessary logic in your mails, meaning that you can never work with us to actualize this project no matter how we try to convince you - Mr. Chidi 0kpala
You will have to munch the statistics of the transfer so I can give to them - Mr. James Hessom Hessom
If not that you only hide behind computer and be playing prawns with us - Benny Clifford
France - Luxembourg
x26 - 2012 x258 - 2013
x263 - 2014 x160 - 2015
x204 & x1 - 2016
x177 - 2017 x81 - 2018
x85 - 2019 x9 -2020
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windypops
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 6059
Location: Planet X
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Mon Aug 26, 2019 3:41 pm |
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I knew about 419 scams before the internet existed. We used to get letters to the business I worked at as far back as the early 80s. The owner very nearly took the bait, but I (being a natural skeptic and all round humbug) cautioned against it. It all sounded too good to be true. Later, a trade magazine he subscribed to did an article on the subject as lots of other people in the same line of work had been targeted.
In the early days of the internet I wasn't as careful about posting my email on message boards or guestbooks as I am now. Scammers used web crawlers to find emails so it was only a matter of time before I started to receive scam mail. Did some research and discovered scambaiting was a thing.
Found Eater via: Scamorama (Lads from Lagos) and Ebola Monkey Man. Shiver, was baiting Joe Eboh <a href ="https://419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm">Church of the painted Breast</a> around this time. After reading that I was hooked. I spent quite a while reading various baits and finally joined 419 Eater. |
_________________ "No amount of semen donation will save this situation" Sanny Sanny
"We must disagree to agree" Raji Musa
If it's LADS you want. GoTo: http://www.yopmail.com/
and sign in with either ladmail or kentbrockman
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Juan Freizwidatt
Associate
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Posts: 20834
Location: Hanging out at In-n-Out
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Mon Aug 26, 2019 6:06 pm |
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My experience is virtually identical to windypops'. I received snail-mail letters in the business I ran in the early 80s too. Once I got online years later those infrequent letters became a flood of emails. At some point I read an article about them, and for the first time I realized there was actually a name for these -- 419 -- and I also discovered there was a lot more variety among them than I thought.
I started searching and found my way to scamorama.com in 2003. I spent a couple of weeks reading posts and laughing my head off. (Those were the days when comedy baits were the gold standard -- it was much later that I started appreciating straight baiting.) I decided "I can do that!" so I jumped in with my first bait. My main goal then was to do a bait worth publishing, and I did. In retrospect, that wasn't a bad first bait but I would definitely do a lot better now. I was in a big rush to wrap it up and post it, so I deliberately ended it way too soon. I also burned the lad, which is something I quickly learned never to do.
I did a bit better in my next Scamorama bait. I still burned him, but at least I stayed in character.
From there I found my way to Eater and I realized I had found my home. That was in April 2004, and I'm still here. |
_________________ "SATAN WILL KILL YOU . BECAUSE YOU ARE A DAUGHTER OF MERMAID"
"HOW DOES IT SOUND TO YOU THAT ANOTHER PERSON IS DEALING WITH YOU AND ASK YOU TO CONTACT ANOTHER PERSON AND NOW YOU SAID THAT YOU WANT TO DEAL WITH THE OTHER PERSON WITHOUT THE KNOWING OF THE PERSON THAT ASK YOU TO CONTACT THE OTHER PERSON"
I apologize again that I will lick the dust from your sandals - Shorty
x4: Shorty
x 16:
US lad w/Capone: ( )
- ATL>DC>ATL>Vegas>Seattle>ATL>San Diego>LA>ATL>Seattle>ATL>WY>ATL>Aspen>ATL (21K+ miles, $11K+ expenses)
Shorty w/bohigal:
- Lagos>Abidjan
Random lads:
- Douala>Korup; Lagos>Cotonou>Parakou; Cotonou>Niger border; Cotonou>Pendjari>jail in Tanguietta; Asaba>Abuja; Accra>Tamale
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Esox lucius
Baiting Guru
Joined: 26 May 2010
Posts: 2922
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river!
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Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:35 pm |
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I got my own PC shortly before I retired from LE 11 years ago. Of course I was aware of letter and online scams due to my job but once retired I found a UK based baiting site (forget the name) where this baiter had invented a UK village of characters who conversed with lads. A lot of stuff was done by Fax in those days and the published baits were hilarious. I think he got bored and the site finished but up popped 419eater and unlike the 'burn the scammers' sites it had rules and tips how to progress baits to safaris, bank accounts etc. I joined here and it's been 'Hotel California' ever since |
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(Br Joe)
"..May your unborn kids don't grow and may you be burnt to ashes asap ! " CCS
"..Sir we have given you more than 5 different accounts yet you still complaining " SCB
" YOU LOW LIFE SATANIC AGENT, FORWARD THESE MESSAGES TO YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER, THEY WILL DEFINITELY ENJOY READING THEM." RG |
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sparky905
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jul 2017
Posts: 2107
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Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:10 am |
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On a throwaway email account I rec'd many scam letters and one day decided to reply and play along. It ran for a few weeks, and over 100 lad emails. This led to me researching these scams, and I found Eater along the way. What a surprise to find people doing this in an organised manner. What surprised me was that while I was content to waste my lad's time, here I found there was an actual end game to baiting. People wanted to find mules. Report pigs. Shut down lad networks. It was eye opening into a more complex and dark world I probably knew was there, but gave little thought to. |
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"Lucky" X6
"George", "Dr. Egobia" Rev James Smith Lawson Dike
" I can sue anybody for deformation of character" scammer Fred Unuobia losing his patience with endless questions |
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bearkat419
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 4445
Location: Houston, TX
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Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:04 am |
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Windypops you are braver than me to mention that site here. That was where I discovered baiting. Glad to say I found a more productive community to go about it the right way. |
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windypops
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 6059
Location: Planet X
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Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:06 am |
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^ Nooooooooo! That was the other lot. Who shall not be named. Now thankfully gone.
Scamorama and Ebola are perfectly legit. |
_________________ "No amount of semen donation will save this situation" Sanny Sanny
"We must disagree to agree" Raji Musa
If it's LADS you want. GoTo: http://www.yopmail.com/
and sign in with either ladmail or kentbrockman
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windypops
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 6059
Location: Planet X
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Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:16 am |
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Juan Freizwidatt wrote: |
I received snail-mail letters in the business I ran in the early 80s too. |
They must have had access to copious supplies of Yellow Pages back then. And had an uncanny knack of knowing the ups and downs of various trades or businesses. And would target them relentlessly.
That was back in the good old days when you could give them a working fax number. So nascent baiters would direct them to downloading ginormous files where possible.
Eeeeee Lad! |
_________________ "No amount of semen donation will save this situation" Sanny Sanny
"We must disagree to agree" Raji Musa
If it's LADS you want. GoTo: http://www.yopmail.com/
and sign in with either ladmail or kentbrockman
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lakeside77
A chaff in the USA
Joined: 11 Jul 2008
Posts: 2700
Location: Out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old
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Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:07 pm |
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I, too, encountered scam snail mail in the late 1980s. My brother in law got one at his business address. The envelope had a hand-written address and was directed to "CEO, [name of BIL's business]." Inside was a mimeographed letter (has anyone seen anything mimeographed lately?) with a corrupt Oil Ministry official format. It was not very convincing.
I first heard of scambaiting in the early 2000s when an article in The Guardian called it "the internet's newest blood sport." I was in. |
_________________ ls77
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Father Frank
I must let you know that am sick and tired of all this whole bull sheet do you know my ass is on the line - Jonh Raymund
i want to say i am very sorry for the Mother that gave Barth to you -- Jim Ovie
. . . it is disrespectful,malicious, an ILEDAN EYE,to our corporation and embarrassing to my secretary as he was messed up by your action. I thought I was assisting a true American gentleman without knowing that I am trying to help one of the most chaffs in the USA. --Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh
. . . I hate you with all my Live, you may not understand the Laval of hatred I have in you -- Dr. Lambert |
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MorganleFay
Elite Baiter
Joined: 28 Mar 2015
Posts: 1916
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Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:47 am |
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I was scammed, which I don't like to think about too much. However, I must have spoken to someone about this very needy lad in Ghana who was begging the wheels off my personal financial carriage for the sake of his five-year-old son when I was directed to search online for stories of romance scams. I found Scam Warners and went on to find Eater from there.
I seldom bait, though have taken on one or two romance lads. However, I suspect I still have some residual stuff going on from when I gave away all that cash, even though it was five years ago, so I prefer to support other baiters. |
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Birlic
Baiting Guru
Joined: 07 Oct 2016
Posts: 4933
Location: In the Chapel
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Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:04 am |
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3-4 years ago, my sister was received many emails from a romantic scammer. He sent flowers and candy to her and promised his eternal love.
I found this whole story very suspicious, so I started searching the Internet for similar stories... I found the Eater forum and that's where it all started.
I have no any regrets, because I managed to know some good people and I haved big fun here. |
_________________ Let the lads come to me!
- A lot of & many ; ; ; ; 4x ; 3x ; ; 35x ; π° ;
- My travel agency: Accra-Tamale; Akure-Kamba; Akure-Bohicon; Bamako-Siguiri; Banjul-Basse; Banjul-Dakar; Banjul-Karang; BeninCity-Lagos; BeninCity-Seme; Brikama-Basse; Brikama-Dakar; 2xBrikama-Karang; Brussels-Lausanne; Cotonou-Accra; Cotonou-Djougou; Idiroko-Aneho; 2xIdiroko-Cotonou; Idiroko-HillaCondji; Lagos-Abuja; Lagos-Bamako; Lagos-Bida; 7xLagos-Cotonou; Lagos-Lome; 2xLagos-Seme; Owerri-Abuja; Warri-Cotonou; |
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windypops
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 6059
Location: Planet X
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Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:50 pm |
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lakeside77 wrote: |
(has anyone seen anything mimeographed lately?) |
Not since I left college in 1978. But the smell lingers. And I inhaled. |
_________________ "No amount of semen donation will save this situation" Sanny Sanny
"We must disagree to agree" Raji Musa
If it's LADS you want. GoTo: http://www.yopmail.com/
and sign in with either ladmail or kentbrockman
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lakeside77
A chaff in the USA
Joined: 11 Jul 2008
Posts: 2700
Location: Out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old
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Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:13 am |
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^^Hey!! You left college the same year I finished undergrad. It took almost three years to get the purple out from underneath my fingernails. |
_________________ ls77
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Father Frank
I must let you know that am sick and tired of all this whole bull sheet do you know my ass is on the line - Jonh Raymund
i want to say i am very sorry for the Mother that gave Barth to you -- Jim Ovie
. . . it is disrespectful,malicious, an ILEDAN EYE,to our corporation and embarrassing to my secretary as he was messed up by your action. I thought I was assisting a true American gentleman without knowing that I am trying to help one of the most chaffs in the USA. --Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh
. . . I hate you with all my Live, you may not understand the Laval of hatred I have in you -- Dr. Lambert |
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windypops
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 6059
Location: Planet X
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Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:26 am |
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^I had grease under mine. HND in mechanical and electrical engineering. Back in the day when it was possible to fix just about anything with Murphy's screwdriver (that's a %@!king big hammer to you ) and WD 40. |
_________________ "No amount of semen donation will save this situation" Sanny Sanny
"We must disagree to agree" Raji Musa
If it's LADS you want. GoTo: http://www.yopmail.com/
and sign in with either ladmail or kentbrockman
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Lake Amour
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 17 Mar 2017
Posts: 524
Location: The Orphanage
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Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:13 pm |
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I had bookmarked a somewhat famous 419 site maybe 15 years ago, laughed and promptly forgot about it.
Then, a few years ago, an elderly family friend got caught up in a romance scam. In searching the internet to "prove" he was in a scam, I found this site. Read through a few baits and thought I might have the sense of humor to do this, so it began.
Last I heard, the elderly family friend is still in the scam and out at least $15k. I tried and he cut off all contact. Haven't seen or spoken to him in about 18 months, unfortunately. |
_________________ Mr Hump Here's Audio Book Collection
"Some of my co workers are beginning to say that you are making a fool of me but I strongly believe you" - Mr Hump Here
"You and your orphanage has destroyed my perfect life" - Mr Hump Here
"Also beside the rear entry as a quicker way to get Fellatio, is there any other thing you need?" - Mr Hump Here
"EAT SHIT AND FUCK YOURSELF WITH RUBBISH." - Tom Sawyer
Team Humphere |
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alienhunter
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
Posts: 34
Location: Jersey Channel Islands
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Thu Nov 21, 2019 6:27 pm |
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I read some of the early baits and it got me interested! |
_________________ Father Rastus Odinga Innuendo of the
Church Of Christian Kinship
Blessed are the worshippers of COCK
churchofchristiankinship.co.uk |
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