A fun modality I've used in the past

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Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 4:32 am

Hey. I have done this a few times, and it's always...interesting to say the least.

Let's say the lad claims to work for the Central Bank of Nigeria. He sends you to WU or MG to send him some money. Return some time later and say "the money has been sent to you".

The lad will inevitably ask for the MTCN or Reference number. Respond "what's that?"...they'll probably be a bit annoyed at this point and they'll tell you what it is. Respond by saying "why do you need that number, anyway? You don't need any numbers, just put it in the bank as soon as it arrives".

At this point, the lad won't know what to think, so you can play out the string however you want after this. Eventually, you give the big reveal: you purchased an international money order and mailed it to the Central Bank of Nigeria or whatever.

The lad will have to scramble and come up with some reason why they can't cash it. You can accuse them of lying at that point, since it is an international money order. Tell them you asked the manager at WU/MG whether the money order was valid in the lad's country.

At this point, you can start to become suspicious of the whole deal. Tell them you refuse to do anything else with WU/MG, and that you need a bank account to do a bank transfer.

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 5:19 am

That's pretty good. I can see that driving them up the wall. I get a few of those letters a day, I'm going to try it out on a couple and see what happens Very Happy

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 5:53 am

Oh, I forgot to mention...when they ask you to cancel the money order and send the money, tell them you threw away the stub and thus cannot cancel it.

One time I had a lad pretending to work for Western Union. I told him to just go into the computer and cancel the MO (telling him a fictitious date and time that it was purchased, and then to just keep the money.

He responded back with "you have receive your money back for money order. Please sent payment by Western Union or MoneyGram".

I slapped him hard for that one. At that point, I told him I was very suspicious of the transaction, and I asked him to provide identification. What he sent me was by far the saddest attempt at faking an ID that I have ever seen. It looked like a four year old made it in Microsoft Paint.

So, I of course thanked him up and down for sending me his identification, and told him that it convinced me he really was who he said he was.

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 6:09 am

With the exception of the "used by scammer", this is unaltered. This is really what he sent me.

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 6:23 am

Not bad. I've got several like that too.

Every now and then when I'm bored I'll forward my catcher to another account and set up a canned response. Something like "This sounds interesting but too good to be true. Can you send me your ID and some documents so I know I can trust you." Then once a day or so I'll go through the mail and hit reply and drop in the canned response. About 1/3 of the lads will send back ID's, passports & documents. You can build up quite a collection of them in no time at all.

As a bonus, every time I do it I almost always find a few lads that are just begging to be seriously baited.

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 6:38 am

Oh, and I see your "Douglas Omotete" and raise you a "Harry Patter"

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 9:10 am

This technique can also serve with the "payment slips" for banks and that Lads yearn for - just put it in the post and voila!

Lads may ask you for a "tracking number" or ask you to retrieve the letter, thus showing they don't understand the whole idea of the postal service. This can cause some arguments and delays.

Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 10:09 am

I just finished a bait like that. A puppy lad told me to go to WU and send money to someone at a certain address in the USA. So I went to WU and got a money order, then went to the post office and found out that the address was invalid and uncorrectable. I asked the lad to fix the address; he corrected the street name, but not the ZIP code, then uncorrected it later. Then followed a few weeks of him not understanding what mail is and me not understanding what a WU transfer is. I also could not get him to understand that once I file the form to get the money back, I'd have to wait 30 days to actually get the money back. Less than two weeks later, he said "You don't need the puppy anymore. Am very sure you must have received your money back right!".

I'd download the bait and publish it, but the website's still up, and I have to complain to ICANN to get the registrar to shut it down, which would still leave a site in .us up. Also I have some other baits I'd like to publish but am not finished editing.