Scambaiting terms in different languages?

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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:52 pm

I go to a Hispanic church and would like to talk about baiting in Spanish, as this quarter the church is focusing on an area of Africa which includes the West African scam belt. There are baiters who speak German, Finnish, Dutch, and various other languages. How do you talk about baiting in those languages?

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:57 pm

Can you run your thoughts through Google Translate and get your points across?

(Yupppers, two more cents please)

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:20 pm

No. Google doesn't know how to translate "scambaiting" or "baiter" into Spanish, and the translation it gives for "scam baiter" doesn't make sense.

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18312

Other languages have terms for fraud, or to describe what we do, even if there are not direct translations for some of the terms we use in English. Do you speak Spanish? If not, I'm not sure how you're going to share information in Spanish, but if you'd like help with translations you can always post in Scambaiting help with a request for help from a Spanish speaker.

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:46 pm

Now might be your chance to add to the language. is there a word in Spanish for baiting; like badger baiting or bear baiting? If not then standard terms like "social engineering" would be appropriate.

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:43 am

In catalan I use "ensarronar" literally, to put someone into a sack, meaning to trick, to put someone in an embarrassing situation through deceit. In spanish, I guess you could use "encerrona" as a synonim of "bait" which means pretty much the same, but the verb... Can't think about one. Maybe engañar/joder/pillar a los timadores, but that's not nearly as beautiful.
In french I just know that baiting is croque-escroc, "chow a scammer". Pastor Frank, being from Montreal will be able to tell us more.
When I speak in german with Robet Heinrich, we just use germanised versions of english terms (e.g. Baiten for baiting)

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:56 pm

Wiktionary has both senses of the verb "bait" ("put bait on to attract" and "annoy") but not translations for the second. Wikipedia has an article on bull-baiting, which is "hostigamiento de toros" in Spanish. So we could say "hostigamiento de timadores".

"Bait" is from Germanic, so using it in German doesn't sound too strange.

"Xlura" is Lojban for "bait" in the first sense.

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:02 pm

Going down the spanish route how about 'hostigamiento de mugus'

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:29 pm

Quote:

encerrona

f. Situación preparada de antemano en que se coloca a una persona para obligarla a que haga algo en contra de su voluntad:
consiguió salir airoso de la encerrona.

Situation prepared beforehand in which a person is forced to do something against his will.

Baiting Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2010 Posts: 2197

^^Or. el prisionero español everybody knows that one.

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