My first bait and some interesting shenanigans

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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:23 am

Just so nobody asks about this, I have read all of the site guidelines, the email accounts I am using are not connected to my personal ones, and I am not using personal information.

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PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.
This is to notify you that we have received your kind email, and it's full contents, and everything is well clarified, Meanwhile, we want to use this medium to express to you that you have been approved as the rightfully beneficiary / Owner of this Fund us$5.5millions, by the ECO-BANK Service Authority (ECO-BANK) Benin Rep.

I am Dr. Paul.Wolfowitz, in charge of your transfer which will be taken place as much as you send the Affidavit of claim fee of $220 on your behalf as you are opportunity of paying the fee which is $220USD
We anticipate your understanding to the above mentioned regards the sending of Affidavit of claim fee of $220, to enable us proceed on establish an international online Bank account on your behalf in our Bank, so that your expected fund will be deposited in, and proceed of wire transfer to settle in your personal bank account in U.S.A: Note you are hereby require for immediate send of Affidavit of claim fee of $220 today immediately you receive this message because your transfer have already map out so any thing your doing now do it fast as fast because delay is dangerous ok.

Take note that you will have to Stop Communication with every other person if you have been in contact with any. Also remember that immediately you send the Affidavit of claim fee of $220, nothing more! Nothing less! And we guarantee the receipt of your fund to be successfully transferred to you within the next 48hrs after confirmation receipt of the Affidavit of claim fee of $220 ok, Note: Everything has been taken care of.
Therefore. your advise to follow the instruction immediately and go to western union or Money gram and send the requested fee immediately because the President of World Bank Group instructed us to let you know that we should transfer the $5.5million directly to your account within 1hours we receive the Affidavit of claim fee of $220 ok.

Now we are waiting for you to make the payment through Western union Or Money gram with the name of our cashier Mr. Eugene Ekene Obalim.

Receiver____________ Eugene Ekene Ob@lim
Country______________ Benin Republic.
City_____________ Coton0u
Text Question_________What is good?
Answer_____________ Good reputations.
Amount_______________ $220. 00

Please, sender's name and MTCN is highly recommended.Thanks for Your Cooperation.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. [email protected]
Payment Senior Officer

It's pretty much the first one, but there was some before this. For context, my character is a 59-year old investment banker who is clueless about modern technology. Here is when I start trying to force him off-script.

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I am confused by these services. For Western Onion, what types of onions do I have to send? There are so many types at my local Whole Foods. Do you want organic or non-GMO as well? It may be hard to mail the onions into your country, since there are some restrictions.
How many grams of money do I have to send for Money Gram? Money is pretty light, so I presume that I will have to send a lot of it. I will have my assistant start weighing my money immediately so I can send the precise amount.
Are you sure that mail would not be easier?
My assistant is in charge of all of these personal financial transfers; you can contact him at **** for more information.

I took these gags from another thread. The lad repeated a lot of emails from before and did not grasp that I was thoroughly confused until this one:

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PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.

I receive your email, consign your question, (1) you should go to the
email I sent to you, you will see the information, copy the
information out on the paper and go to money gram office around you,
ask them to help you send money out, they money gram Office will give
you Form to fill , and after filing the form, you will give them the
form back together with the money that you want to send out, again
after sending the money finish ask them to write you the reference No
on paper: and don’t allow another person to see it,also remember that
how much you are going to send is $220 only OK.

The lad was nice enough to give some thorough instructions. Unfortunately these aren't simple enough for my character. The lad also tells me to use RIA money. Here is where I start complicating things, and as far as I have gone so far:

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I am so sorry to inform you of this, but my spiritual leader has advised me from making business deals with people that are not a member of my religion. It is called the religion of the wise camel. There is a simple application process, but once you join, my spiritual advisor and I will be more than glad to make deals with you. We will also inform the other members of our religion to work with your bank in the future. If you are interested in joining my religion, please contact [email protected].

On another note, do I still have to send onions if I use RIA money? There are so many new financial systems compared to the old days... How many grams total should the 220$ be? I sent my personal assistant to the local Moneygram office, but they were under an investigation due to corruption. Apparently one of the employees was siphoning off money from people's transfers. They said they thought they would be done within a day or so.

I have already set up the religion/cult of the wise camel; I have a 15-page document with all of the teachings. Since I have already forced the lad off-script, I hope that he will offer to join the cult. I have plenty of plans then.. Twisted Evil

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:52 am

Welcome to Eater, Mr Mystery, and it looks like you're off to a good start!

Keep stringing this guy along for as long as you can but just be aware -- Benin lads are notoriously impatient so, if this guy drops you, don't take it personally. Just pick up some other lad and try the modality with him.

It sounds like you've got some good long-term ideas but, of all the creatures you could have chosen, why did it have to be a rat-bastard camel?!?

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 2:54 pm

Because wouldn't it be fun if he had to go somewhere via camel? Where he didn't know the area or speak the language?

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:09 pm

More emails:

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Attention:****

PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.

I have to inform you again, that we are not playing over this, I know
my reason for the continuous sending this notification to you, the
fact is that you can't trust any one again over this payment for what
people doing for others, but I want you to trust me, I cannot scam you
for $220 it is for bank processing of your payment, the fees of $220
is clearly written to you before, I did not invent the bill to defraud
you of $220 it is an official bank payment processing fee, and the
good part of this, is that you will never, ever be disturbed again
over any kind of payment, this is final.

So therefore tell the Money gram office that you know who you are
deals with, Or if you can not be able to send the fee through the
Money Gram Office, kindly go to RIA Money, and send the fee
immediately, noting like onions, go ahead and send the money through
RIA MONEY, if your interested to receive your fund $5.5MillionsUSD,
and again stop telling people about this transaction, because some
people are evil, when they see a good thing is about to coming to you
like, if they see way to kill you they will kill you and pretend, like
they did not know what happen, so Mr. Justin Roberts Mathew I want
you to keep everything secret consign this transaction, because people
are too weaked.

Listen: to join your religion is not problem to me; I will join your
religion after you make the payment, so therefore you advice to go a
hand and send the money through RIA MONEY OK.

Now we are waiting for you to make the payment through RIA MONEY Or

Money gram with the name of our cashier Mr. Eugene Ekene Ob@lim.

Receiver____________ Eugene Ekene Ob@lim
Country______________ Benin Republic.
City_____________ Cotonou
Text Question_________What is good?
Answer_____________ Good reputations.
Amount_______________ $220. 00

Please, sender's name and MTCN is highly recommended.Thanks for Your
Cooperation.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. [email protected]
Payment Senior Officer

At least he is adding some personal bits in the middle. It is rare that they specify "noting like onions" in their messages. My response to get the lad to join my religion before the deal:

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Although you seem very trustworthy and I have had positive dealings with your bank in the past, I cannot be completely sure, which is necessary for these sensitive financial dealings, that you personally are trustworthy. As the wise camel says, "A heretic has no aspirations, so do not judge the heretic. Instead convert them with force, such that they may be judged fairly. If they are not converted, let them be; their brains will be mango-shaped.” I do not want to convert you with force, and I am unable to. If you do not want to, then the deal is off. The process is simple. No money is required, and you will not need to give any information besides your photo and name so we can store it in the church database. If you are still interested, contact [email protected]. If you join, I will personally recommend your bank to all of my contacts in the church, since they deserve to know about a bank as reliable as this.

I still don't know how many grams of money I have to send via RIA money though. I gave you the weights of each one in another email, so can you please give me the precise ones?

The mango-shaped bit will make sense if you have read all of the teachings of the wise camel. I will post them once he decides to join the religion. Don't worry, there are plenty of videos and holy items that he has to make... Twisted Evil

If you want your lads to join some sort of church in your bait, refer them to the email address above and I will be glad to take care of them.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:34 pm

Time to introduce your rich chairman of the Evangelism Committee. Have your chairman offer an inducement of $10,000.00 USD (write it that way) to join your church of the wise camel. Remind him it is not a bribe but a gift from the church to a new member. Start by asking if he is interested and then send out the forms. Once those are back your lad is hooked and will do just about any ritual you can imagine.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:51 pm

My character already mentioned that he has a vacation home in the Bahamas, so it should be obvious that there is money floating around. If the lad is hesitant to join, then I can start offering some funds. Hopefully I have already given him enough incentive to join the church, but only time will tell. I have plans for a convention of the church to meet somewhere near Cotonou where he will be invited...

Substitute the zero in the email address for an "o", by the way.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:17 pm

Pay particular attention to this:

Lad wrote:

Listen: to join your religion is not problem to me; I will join your
religion after you make the payment, so therefore you advice to go a
hand and send the money through RIA MONEY OK.

He's a Benin lad; he's hungry for the short-term payment and he's unable to see the long-term gains of joining the church. You may need to get an edict from the muckety-mucks of your church that you are prohibited from doing business with a non-member. Of course, if the lad wants to join your church, that's a different story, and your church offers very generous donations to new members, especially to new members in parts of the world where the church has not yet been established.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:41 pm

Benin lads are frustrating.. always send out the emails asking for $39 or so..

Its hard to get any to bite. even when telling them you don't trust WU anymore after losing $3500 to a bad WU clerk trying to pay the taxes for a sweepstakes from the Studebaker Lottery in London.

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:16 pm

This is what Pastor Town Selles sent out to his lads. I have changed the name of his church to yours. Many lads have literally dug their own graves, stripped down to their whitie tighties, dressed in a white gown, built and put on a flux capacitor, spread ketchup and mustard on themselves before they had another lad dump 5 liters of water on their heads.

Once the lad and the Pastor have become acquainted the Pastor's computer freezes and the Church Administrator/Evangelism Committee Chairman/high muckie-muck reboots the computer and sees the correspondence with the lad. The muckie-muck calls the Pastor on the carpet and the Pastor sends out the following email message.

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I cannot help you at this point due to the constraints of the Wise Camel bylaws. We can only assist our members.
Just a quick thought, the Wise Camel Church is offering a baptismal gift of $10,000.00 US Dollars for new members willing to profess their faith and show their love of the Wise One. In this way you can become a member. It is only a gift and not a bribe or financial inducement to pretend to be a follower of the Wise Camel if your heart is not ready.
I wonder if you would be interested. This is very important and much time must not pass before we conclude this.

God be with you,
Pastor Town Selles

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:00 pm

^^^ And, of course, the lad is going to ask for payment in advance. And, of course, even though you would love to do this because you know of the lad's true heart and dedication, the muckety-mucks will not permit this. You see, the church has been burnt in the past by faithless heathens who professed their belief, took the money, and ran so now the Distribution Committee cannot authorize any payments to Initiates until they have completed all of the Holy Rituals of the (Rat-Bastard) Camel...

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:44 pm

The lad contacted the pastor. Time for the fun to begin...
Here is the pastor's first response:

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Thank you so much for responding. In the past, people rarely wish to join the religion, but it is glad to see that you are open-minded. It is a good sign for any future business deals that transpire. First, go to this link: https://docs.google.(com as you would expect)/document/d/1E3eViK7E2JjyNisHWyYV38eoVUXKUMxZZOz4-wjUh-0/edit?usp=sharing. It is the first body of the teachings of the wise camel. For the first step, read the first two teachings and answer these questions directly in your next email (my computer has problems with attachments):
1. Can you drink glacial water?
2. Is a mango buried in dirt virtuous?
3. Why does the blue cloud not eat mangoes?
4. Are celery sticks the embodiment of a proud virtue?
5. Why is 5 a virtuous number?
Justin has informed my about your correspondence in the past. Unfortunately, we have plenty of funds to assist you, but our policy as stated earlier means that we can only support full members of the church. The process will not take too long. Also, please fill out this form with your personal information (I feel as if you are going to be the only person at your bank that is open-minded enough to join):
Full name:
Age:
City of residence (full address is ideal but not necessary):
Photo (please attach the photo directly into the email at the bottom like I did):
Phone number (personal and business):
Thank you so much!

Feel free to look at the doctrine. Hopefully the lad will bite. For my first try, I'm really happy that the lad has bothered to respond once he realized that I wouldn't be handing out my money randomly.

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 8:05 pm

I have not had a response yet from the original lad, but another lad showed up also from the same bank asking about a different deal. This is very confusing to my character, and the two have been told to contact each other to clarify.

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Congratulations For Your Funds Online Transfer

Your funds has been deposited to the ECO BANK plc for online transfer and we the entire Federal High Court Of ECOWAS has made every necessary arrangement to transfer your funds to you via E-online bank transfer since you were unable to receive your funds after every stories that you heard so far and all the unnecessary payment that you have been making,so the whole ECOWAS (Economic Community Of Western African States ) Has concluded to compensate you with the sum of $1 Million Dollars plus your due total funds of $16.5 Million United State Dollars making your due funds valued sum of $17.5 Million united state dollars , Your funds has been agreed up to be transferred to you Via E-online transfer, this method of transfer is where by you transfer your funds to your nominated bank account by your self ,so contact the bank with this below information.

Director: Mr G@rry Edward
Eco Bank Plc Benin Rep.
Website: Http://Ecobnk.Net.Tf/
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +229-98272977
Address: Rue du Gouverneur Bayol Cotonou Benin Republic

Contact him now for the creating of your new E-oline Account for easy transfer to your choice account any were around the world.bear it in mind that the only fee that you are to send is sum of $ 205.00 Usd
for the creating of your On-line Bank account for you,so you are to contact them along with the payment information for easy procedure of this transfer.below is the information that you are going to use to
send the fee through western union or money gram money transfer.

Receiver's Name:........ JOHN ANANWODE
Country:*.................... Benin Republic
City:*....................... Cotonou
Amount:*................. $205.00 Usd
Text Question:*....... Code
Text Answer:*........... 00229

Get Back to them with the payment information as below

Sender's Name:*..........
MTCN:*..........

I am looking forward to hear from you once you receive this email for clear confirmation of your files.

Thanks For Your Co-operation
Bar.P@trick Williams
www.ecob@[email protected]
(FHCE)

If all goes well, they will contact each other and I can get another recruit to my church. My character has asked the same questions about Western Onion and how many grams of money he needs to send.

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 8:17 pm

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Website: Http://Ecobnk.Net.Tf/

The lad provided you with a nice fake bank website here. Very Happy

You can post the fake website in our Fake Site Forum where one of the site killers can dispatch it. Or, you can post it there and one of the site killers would be happy to show you how to kill it yourself!

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:27 pm

I get the feeling that the original lad twigged, but it seems a bit early to say. The lad has sent messages like clockwork at around 2 specific times, and he has not done so today. Hopefully he is too busy studying the wise camel doctrine. I will just update this thread with my adventures with the various staff at Ecobank.

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:04 pm

Ok, the site is now posted in the Fake Sites Forum. The site should be out of commission soon.

So, you will be able to have your Lad explain why this bank cannot keep its website operational! Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:10 pm

Go, Nigel!!!

And, congrats to Mr. Mystery, too!

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:11 pm

Potentially a few different ones. I plan on referring all of the Ecobank lads I find to each other and watch the chaos unfold.

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:18 pm

I think my first Ecobank lad twigged once he realized that the church membership would take some work on his part, the second one is going to go down the same path, and I have a fake driver's license from somebody in another bait.
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This lad requested that I travel to Spain to work out a business deal; I offered to send my personal assistant instead, and he said yes. I am waiting on flight information. Unfortunately, my personal assistant does not speak Spanish, so there may be some issues there. And I know that the lad is most likely nowhere near Spain, but it should still be interesting.[/img]

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:33 pm

Baiting is like fishing with worms. If you feel the nibble you have to jiggle the hook just a little to see if he's on. If you swing for the fences when the fish is just mouthing the worm you will yank it right out of its mouth and not set the hook. The lad will play with you also to see if you are hooked and how big you are. Use that to your advantage.

Play with him a little before you set the hook. Dangle cash and introduce other characters that ask the same simple questions. Lads are lazy and will not fill out more than a few lines until they are firmly hooked. I will not ask for a trophy until I have had a few weeks worth of correspondence and at at least one serious form.

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:57 am

I am still trying to organize the meeting; it seems as if there have been a few issues with the flight that the personal assistant has taken. He was so thoughtful as to provide a hotel. Maybe I will send him to meet in the lobby.
I am still trying to see how effective certain strategies that I thought would be really annoying actually are, and I am not expecting these lads to stay on the hook for more than the time they need to send a "YOU IGNORANT SCUM" email.

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