I'm getting scam mail from the 19th century !

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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:37 am

Quote:

I am MASTER NICHOLAS RADFORD,It is my pleasure to write you in respect of our Company THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FURNITURE MAKERS ,Furniture Makers' Hall 12 Austin Friars London EC2N 2HE.

Some Lad's been reading too much Charles Dickens methinks.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:42 am

They're real! He's got good taste in addresses, I'll give him that!

http://www.guildmark.org.uk/content.aspx?Menu=9&PAGE=91

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:48 am

I'm almost tempted to bait him as Martin Chuzzlewit with my daughter Little Nell, but I'm not sure I'm well enough up on Dickens to get the most out of it.

That's how my baiting brain (demented as it is) works. The Lad sparks a weird thought and I'm on it like a ferret up a drainpipe.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:54 am

Go for it. You can always get the info you need from sites like bibliomania.com. Or Wiki! Wink

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:59 am

Dam you Hekate Laughing

- I'm already in baits as a female Russian fashion model, a Russian mobster, a trawler captain and I can't remember the rest. Adding a bait as a Dicken's character is too much to resist. I'll see how far I can push him into a Dickensian world of gas lamps and Hansom cabs.

It's a cheque mule scam operation, so if he threatens me with Interpol I'll counter with Sherlock Holmes. Laughing

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:02 am

Whatever you do fro this lad, he's bound to come back with his begging bowl saying "Please Sir, may I have some more?"

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:43 am

GomerPyle wrote:

Dam you Hekate Laughing

Oh come on, you know you love me really!! Laughing

If you need an accomplice for this one, I'm in! I'm a civil servant - I write in Dickensian English all the time! Laughing

@it wasn't me - how right you are! Wink

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:26 pm

And I wrote my master's thesis on Dickens and have tons of reference materials too, so I can join in as Dombey the rich man if you like.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:58 pm

Okay - I've tossed it into the Surplus Mail Forum

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=863556#863556

Just as long as I'm the only Martin Chuzzlewit applying.

Team baiting a cheque mule scammer on a Dickens theme - mmmmm Laughing

- hilarious.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:05 pm

Quote:

It's a cheque mule scam operation, so if he threatens me with Interpol I'll counter with Sherlock Holmes.

Why not Inspectors Lestrade, Gregson, or Athelney Jones?

*** BANNED *** Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 140

It's behind Throgmorton Street. For fans of old-time radio, that should bring some memories...

L-E-E-E-E-ROY!

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:46 am

I might bait him as a Freemason 'The Worshipful Master of ..."

I didn't know we had a Lodge in Nigeria, hope he's up with his squares and compasses and has his funny handshake.
Should be really confusing for him.
Lets see, the working tools of a Furniture Maker are ...

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:45 am

AH, memories - I used to use a Masonic handshake on guys I met in a business capacity - the look of shock on their faces was hysterical!

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:09 am

I am no longer active in the craft but I've been up the ladder far enough to be able to use it and still safeguard the secrets.
Now, a suitable name and rank is required.
Gmail is your friend.

Elite Baiter Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1702

oh how one yearns to waste majestically colourful dickens on such woefully inadequate pets.

The pets will without obligation be quite confounded by such elegant utterances.

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:00 pm

I'm onboard as Edwin Drood.

Trophy Videos · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:56 pm

This sounds like it's going to be a good one, GomerPyle. Now if anyone can get him to dress up in the garb of the period.... Laughing

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:19 pm

Can I take him on as Mr Micawber, and harrass him by promising that I can't WU him now but 'something is coming up' and presenting him with endless IOU's? Can I? Can I? Please?

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:43 pm

Dash it all - someone already had Martin Chuzzlewit at gmail Shocked

There are some weird people about - that's all I can say.

http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/quote_main.shtml

I'll try to use as many of these quotes as possible. It should make as much sense as they normally do.

I got this one in for starters

Quote:

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues -- faith and hope

@SlapHappy - Cheque mule scammers aren't normally up for dressing up and stuff. It's usually when they come looking for their money you can play games- and Oliver and Fagin will play their parts - I'll see if I can blame Jack the Ripper.

Trophy Videos · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:18 pm

I have a sneaking suspicion that there money will disappear.... Very Happy

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:12 pm

I'm quite proud of this. It's almost straight baiting - in a way. Rolling Eyes

The Dickens quote I used is in red, and doesn't look too out of place, though the whole e-mail is talking way over a Lad's head. I find these scammers can be very picky and suspicious, so I plan to pick longer and longer quotations to slam dunk on him if he doesn't play ball (oops mixed metaphor).

Quote:

Dear Master N|ch0las,

I could only consider joining you in this exciting endeavour if you had the full permission of your parents to enable us to join together for the profit of us both.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

If you can satisfy me on this point we can progress to a commercial partnership of which we may be both proud and well rewarded as to our aims and mutual financial benefit. For this purpose I provide the information you ask me to submit

DRIVEL CRAP & PIFFLE

Please be so good as to provide your own information in a similar format

Your obedient servant

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Oh, I like how you picked up on the " master " Gomer
Would a lad really know thats a formal term for addressing a child.
No matter, gave me a giggle.

When I furniture makers I thought.... chairs... then Chippendales... then male dancers...oooh.. then went lie down in a darkened room Laughing

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