What are some of the personas you've guys used as bait?

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 17 May 2017 Posts: 23

Just curious to see if you guys had some retired characters or personas that aren't in circulation any more. Nothing current, I'd not want to spoil the hunt by a lad seeing your current aliases.

I've used Charles Xavier in the past
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters.

Ned Stark
Land Baron and Warden of the North.

Phil McCrotch
Florida retiree and investor of small businesses

For phone scams involving IRS scammers I used to use Saul Rosenberg
A semi blind chronic hemeroid sufferer

You guys got any funny ones you don't use now?

Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 4:17 pm

I use former presidents of the US, plus a few of the founding fathers' names, or those of the American Revolution. I've also used (and retired) names from Oscar Wilde plays, particularly (and snarkily) The Importance of Being Ernest. Cool

419Eater is my life Joined: 27 Jan 2015 Posts: 331

Some of my past female characters are:
Molly Ringworm
Melba Toest
Mahtza Rella
Juicy Fruit Newton

One of my favorite male characters was Pappy Joe Twistinwind. He was an American Indian with all kinds of tribal rules he had to follow, including never setting foot in a Western Union or Moneygram. Mr. Green

Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 5:21 pm

Some Are current and some aren’t. Without full names ‘The Google’ wont reveal too much:

Trucker John and his dog Sgt. Yorkie

Skanky Darla who loves new shoes, crabs, naked Twister and massages from Carleeto the pool boy

Candy a part-time drunken pron Star

Milburn an expert on shoe cams, naturalism and is the world’s leading manufacturer of Veeblefetzers

The Jizz a music producer, pimp, drug dealer plus he also does some nasty things…

Pastor Shit Bahls a mentor with the Church of FUK

Charles the Chocolatier whose parents died in a horrible fudge packing accident

Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 5:35 pm

I like senile old men, kids that hacked their rich parents account, andv single mothers with seriously ill kids. All are great ammo when ethics debates come up.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 17 May 2017 Posts: 23

Some of these are hilarious! Great stuff!

I have a noob question though.

What are the little symbols for at the bottom of your signatures? I noticed a pig a phone a little black Thompson sub machine gun. Where can I look the meanings up? I know they are badges or medals more or less. Bit where do I find out about them?

Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 7:41 pm

My names are unremarkable - the only one worth noting (and it is a recurring name in my baits) is Melburne Drysd@le, who you may remember was a character on the TV show the Beverly Hillbillies. He shows up rather frequently as a corrupt banker.

My characters tend to work in hospitals or hospices (why? I don't know). These medical facilities tend to specialize in the treatment of end-stage halitosis or chronic lycanthropy.

A lot of my characters live in the bucolic town of Upper M$ndacity, which is either located in Vermont, West Ohio, or Kent in the UK (you may not be aware of this, but Kent is near Yorkshire).

My characters live on Prev@rication Avenue.

No scammer in my experience has ever understood the meaning of the town's name or the street's name!

Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 8:06 pm

@ Wookiecookie. This thread should help to explain the icons:

https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118861

Not quite a Newb Joined: 17 May 2017 Posts: 23

@oscarpiles thank you very much! Everyone's been very helpful and friendly to a rookie!

Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 8:18 pm

^I hate everyone equally but you have a cool username so I calmed for a bit...

Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 8:41 pm

My main character is a 93-year-old man confined to a bed in hospice on the island of Lanai in Hawaii. No western union or moneygram and RIA won't service the area, mighty handy.

If I get a lad ripe for some major abuse I add the hospice nurse (the victim also thinks he's his attorney) who tries to engage the lad in stealing millions from the old guy. Hilarity often ensues.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 17 May 2017 Posts: 23

Haven't gotten there quite yet. But any one in the states that grew up on the 80's will know Mcgruff the Crime dog. It's used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies in America

"Scruff Mcgruff Chicago Illinois..sixohsix five two!" That was his song.

I think it would be pretty funny to use him as bait. Kids could write a letter to Mcgruff back then and the address was the lyrics to his song. The post office would deliver your letter right to scruff.

Fitting I think. Let some lads go straight to crime stoppers.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Fr. Juan has been my go-to since I opened my first free Juno email account. He leads the Holy Church of the Eaten Fish. He's slightly sketchy with mob connections that lead all the way to Rome.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 12:55 am

I used to bait as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard. I clearly let the lad know that I was communicating via sub-space transmission, so I could blame any delays on signal loss while I was warping to another solar system. Commander Ryker and Lt. Worf were often brought in as side characters.
The lads never batted an eye! Shocked

Another was Rev. Emory Burkhalter (I got the name out of a physicians directory), leader of The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Motion. One lad actually found Jesus, and asked me for spiritual guidance. I counseled him for about three months before he went silent.

I've also baited as a one-legged midget hooker.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 4:09 am

As my username suggests, almost all of my baiting personae are characters from The Great Escape: Roger, Hilts, Hendley, Colin, Ashley-Pitt, Sedgewick. The only exception is my fake lad character Usman, who is named after one of the first lads I baited.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 8:55 am

I used to use silly juvenile names like Jack Off and Dick Head for my own amusement, and similar names from German and Dutch.

These days all my characters are like Kitty's: named for historical figures in their home country or characters from classic literature. If called on it , very easy to say "yes, I was named after them". I also like using Chinese characters with very common names that are completely un Googleable. Almost always they are immigrants living in the US or UK which can create additional "challenges" useful in the course of a bait.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 10:21 am

Usually my baiting characters are average Joes with some peculiarities to fit my plots.
There's a Cuban emigrant (sometimes to the US sometimes to Spain) and his wife, an English gentleman... I tend not to make them too peculiar, if I'm baiting straight I find it adds nothing to the story and it may just annoy the lad or make him suspect you're a joker. If I'm planning something else, then I fit them with the necessary background, but in general, I'm afraid my characters are rather bland.
An exception is, of course, my fake lad, who is rather stereotypical (rude, sexist, pushy, buys single malt just to water the plants with it... you get the gist).
And even if I haven't used him in a long time, there's Mr. Manuel, a Spanish youngster working as a WU/MG clerk in the UK, who annoys all lads beyond measure.

ETA, I usually have fun with names of places and banks. Either I make them up or I choose real towns with hilarious names "Venta de Baños", which in old Spanish meant Inn at the Bathplace (probably there was a hot source nearby) but now it would mean "Toilets sold", for instance. My bank is Cohechores Unidos (Bribers United).

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 10:28 am

My favorite character will always be Claira who was both a spoiled rich brat and an accountant of questionable ethics.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 10:59 am

I settled long ago into the personae of Captain Malcolm Reynolds, retired US Marine, and Camille (Cammy) White, vain blonde photomodel.

Occasionally I've been Brad (dyslexic tour guide); Mick Taylor (either a serial killer or Cammy's bigoted alcoholic deadbeat father, as required); or Roscoe White (Cammy's brother in the SASR); and either Nicolae or AJ, Cammy's boyfriends.

Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 4:15 am

My first character was a middle aged woman called Ethel Dickstuffer who targeted love lads. My fake Church had an admin assistant called Fanny Quimm and I also had an Indian girl who targets au pair scammers whose name in Telugu translates as Sweet Vagina.

Nowadays, my characters either have nondescript common names for straight baiting or like f5, abusive names translated into German, Dutch or Italian (usually some derivation of Goat/Sheep Abuser)

Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 5:34 am

Gay millionaire safari camp owner. Psycho safari camp manager (later turned into 2000 year old gay vampire). Botanist at resort. Senegalese mercenary. Israeli commando. Wife of Senegalese commando. Deliverer of money, who disappeared. Various Hindu and Buddhist women who fell in love with lad, and died. Bankers. Muslim banker in Algeria. Owner of mercenary company. Second in command of mercenary company. Several "Pastors" in secret organization. 20 other bit characters.

And that was all for one lad.

Multiple characters give your bait depth and enable you to continue for a long time. Problems with one character? Kill him/her, and move forward.

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3876

^^^
make walid alive again Wink

turdboi loved him... and we loved the idea of turd rotting in some rathole, scratching his head, thinking about what walid actually tried to tell him.

and you are right, bernie probably was the best bait-character ever. where every other character tried to comfort him, bernie just threw out a bunch of insults to him and yet turdboi folled his instructions (mostly).

Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 6:51 pm

I once provided a character named Kelly Hosеman for one of Next Victim's baits. NV's character works in the oil industry; a kelly hose is part of a drilling rig.

Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 7:38 pm

I've baited as James Phelps, the namesake of the lead character in the 1966-73 Mission Impossible series. I created him when a lad claiming to be from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sent me an email with the logo of the Impossible Mission Force (same logo that pete515 uses as an avatar). My Jim Phelps contacted him and demanded why he dared to misuse the IMF logo. Jim Phelps has shown up in several Scambaiter Saturday calls.

Kim Tuduk is a Korean national living in Taiwan. He needs money to get home to Korea and responds to loan lads. The lads who quote their advance fee in generic dollars (i.e., they do not specify US dollars) get a transfer slip with the fees in New Taiwan dollars, the local currency. At an exchange rate of about 32:1, it causes the lad great anxiety and many arguments. BTW Toduk is Korean for "thief." I originally created this character to pose as a North Korean who had no idea what Western Union is and had to navigate several layers of bureaucracy to make a bank transfer.

Park Elkeu (Elkeu is Korean for "moose") is in an unspecified East Asian country and is a mastermind involved in several international criminal enterprises. His employee is Yang Guizi ("foreign devil" in Chinese) who goes behind Park's back to make the payment to the lad. Park finds out and has Yang liquidated before the payment slip can be transmitted. Lad then has to deal with an angry Park.

Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 10:49 pm

I usually bait as a truck driver in the Rocky Mountain states, who is named after a famous ww2 general. I use the remoteness of my working area as an excuse for having no cel phone, but internet is available at the truck stops. I think a lad must googled my name once, because he started adding the general's middle initial when mailing me.
I once baited a lad as Obi Wan Kenobi, owner of the largest wookie ranch in Montana. The money was going to come in handy, as one of the wookies had recently torn off one the arms of my partner Han Solo,crippling him.
And then there was Spock, a dealer in kivas and trillium. Laughing

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