2 SAFARIS. Deported from Chad; then to Northern Benin.

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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:06 am

Great baiting as usual guys, although it is a shame the lad did not take the train to Parakou.

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:03 pm

Britannicus! You add such an awesome dimensions to these baits, and your calls are funny as hell! Have you really only been doing this for a year?

TM, you, and Dr Mike are like the 95'-96' Chicago Bulls (Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman)!

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 3:58 pm

Someday I can walk in a park.... sit on a bench in the sunshine.... and gaze at the statues honoring Mista Babangoh and Mr. Geoffrey.

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:52 pm

Great work getting this lad to safari again! Not often you can get a lad to go on a second safari within a month. You truly are the safari masters. Very Happy

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:53 pm

This one, the phone calls particularly made me laugh. Great work all. So nice to see the lads getting out and about so much in the new year

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:29 pm

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! The noise from the street was deafening as the metalworker repaired something that looked about 50 years old. Gilbert was straining to hear his phone and to understand what was happening. This African guy who was supposed to be searching the city for him.....was actually in.....in.....no, that couldn't be true!

Quote:

"Why do you choose to stress me?! Why do you choose to waste my money?! Why do you choose to do that?!"
"Geoffrey, they are in Ivory Coast. You didn't tell me that I should come to Ivory Coast. I am in Benin"
"I am now in Djougou. The journey took more than 3 hours; not 30 minutes like you said"
"I'm not in Ivory Coast, Mr Man. I am in Benin Republic. Thank you very much"

Lads' Respective Locations.

Djougou, Republic of Benin. Pantheres FC Stadium.

Korhogo, Cote d'Ivoire. Grande Mosque.

ITINERARY:

10 January, am. Gilbert finds a taxi car to drive him to the real location of the Hotel, the north westerly city of Djougou. The "only 30 minutes" journey promised by Geoffrey actually takes over 3 hours.
10 January, pm. Frustrated and seething, Gilbert is dropped outside the Pantheres Football Club Stadium in Djougou. (Happy memories of Alex Kelvin's 'Hell Safari').

THE AUDIO
https://soundcloud.com/scammer-saturday-10-pt2/gilbert-in-benin-day-2

Quote:

The Players:

Travelling Lad: Gilbert from Accra.
Chad Hotel Manager: Mr Babangoh.
Benin Hotel Manager: Mr Randy.
Hotels Owner: Mr Geoffrey.
Mr Labowski's Lad in Cote d'Ivoire: Franklin from Accra.

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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:37 pm

Poor BOI. Great to see him having such a nice New Year.

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Jun 2015 Posts: 1738

What a great new modality.....

ROFLMFFAO. Laughing

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:38 pm

Respectfully Sir, In light of what keeps happening, I think you should consider renaming SH as follows:

Upshitcreek Hotels

As an enticing extra value for money offer - Bush canoe trips complimentary to all guests. FREE paddle provided.

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:12 pm

We need a drinking game for this.... everyone takes a shot every time he says, "Djougou".

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:21 pm

A crossover safari bait! Very Happy

Great work.

The lads' confusion was hilarious!

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 24 Dec 2012 Posts: 699

Very nice indeed Smile

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:16 pm

Excellent work as always.

Are the Ivory Coast lads still on the hook?

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:52 pm

Great audio Laughing

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:57 pm

Lots of folks would enjoy seeing the country side like he is doing. What's his gripe! Laughing

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:59 am

TM, Britannicus and co.: where do you get these world class mugus? Just from a regular catcher account, surplus forum, etc.? Very Happy

Was this originally a gold lad? He seems pretty far from his original script.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:24 am

Parokou - Djougou - Korhogo. You can really pick the destinations, TM!

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:07 am

"Why you choose to wreck my life?" Laughing

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:33 am

Absolutely brilliant.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:44 am

modokmind wrote:

...could you provide a link to the calls where you tell the lad about people from Tunisia & Algeria as well as the one that your cohort tries to chop?

The former was the infamous Mike 0bidi. I miss Mike. https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=222879
The latter was Ike: https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2172117#2172117

Ser Davos wrote:

Are the Ivory Coast lads still on the hook?

I believe so. That is Mr Labowski's Bait: https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=272042

Haruna wrote:

...Just from a regular catcher account, surplus forum, etc.? Was this originally a gold lad?

I can't recall exactly where Gilbert came from. He was a Gold Lad, but with a twist. He wasn't offering to sell Gold per se. Rather, he purported to have a huge amount in storage and would probably have asked for storage or customs charges to have it released.

...and finally. Just in at 0923 hrs in Accra:

Quote:

My dear friend Geoffrey,

i write to in form you that i am back to Accra safely. Thanks for every thing. i can understand the hand writing on the wall. Any way nice doing business with you.

Regards,

Mr. Gilbert

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:35 am

@ Haruna,
If I remember correctly, Gilbert just contacted me out of the blue selling his wares. He must have gotten my E-mail addy from some "Suckers" list somewhere.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:03 pm

Wonderful work as always TM!

As I'm sure you recall, the old Safari baits had a complaint resolution modality for lads who were angered with the way they were treated by the hotel managers. Do you think something like that be a way to rope Gilbert back into the bait?

I edited the Hotel name as this forum is not behind a login - fh5

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:18 pm

As I mentioned in my earlier post, the journey from Cotonou (Benin) to Parakou in the north had to be covered by road; however, it took much longer than Mr Geoffrey and Mista Babangoh had expected. Mr Gilbert, their valued, prospective business partner, reported that he sat in a hired car for eight hours (after having travelled seven hours from his home in Accra (Ghana) to Cotonou! When Geoffrey and Babangoh heard this they looked crestfallen! They were deeply troubled, probably even more so than Mr Gilbert himself had been. But life is not always a bed made of roses, they admitted to themselves; and so, after wiping away tears of sorrow, they soldiered on ... consuming the 5-course, Michelin-rated meal in front of them.

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Hi fellow Baiters, as Britannicus to you, Babangoh to others, I feel it appropriate to stress something here.

Analysis: I believe that for such an apparently purposeful conversation to go on for such a long time between two individuals who aren't even in the same nation, three preconditions had to be met:

1) Getting the lads into a situation in which the only issue they would want to speak about was to locate the other or to be located.

2) Elevated proficiency in call handling in conjunction with unbelievable presence of mind.

3) And finally, I need to give some credit also to our unwitting scammers: What really helped here, but which was not necessarily a given, was their remarkable imprecision in communication, without which this would not have been possible!

My favourite comment from Gilbert, elicited by Geoffrey:

"I came to Chad. Nobody receive mi at di airport. I refused entrance. I went back to Accra. You aks mi to come to Benin. I aks you why not Cotonou? You said no, Parakou. I get to Parakou. Di address is not existing. No such hotel is in existanse. You also aks mi to come to Djougou. I am in Djougou. No such hotel is in existanse."

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:40 pm

I echo Britannicus' words. This is truly epic. My favorite parts of the calls are generally the ones with RT hailing abuse on the lads, but I'm getting more and more fond of these. B@b@ng0h is truly the icing on the cake, and TM is just so smooth. I have no idea how you keep from laughing out loud.

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 17 Aug 2014 Posts: 90

Both Lads talking to each other....epic manipulation of the calls and their stupidity.

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