419eater.com

[Ducky]

Genius. (http://www.419eater.com/html/ahmed_sadiq.htm)

Also, there is one in the archives where they get a scammer to fall for Gillian Anderson.

I am inspired.

[nails3jesus0]

there are some scambaiting forums for you to try it out yourself. there are also safety tips on the 419eater website.

Hell, I had a scambaiting email address, I sent last measure to them, but never got too into scambaiting.

[David Swidler]

419eater.com is fabulously entertaining. I especially like the way Shiver MeTimbers intersperses themes of pop culture that no African would get.

[Ducky]

I agree David, it's friggin genius!

[Reno]

I've done a few baits meself. Mentioned them somewhere here before. Never had any published on 419eater though.

[Orangutan]

funnily enough it was through 419eater that I found this site many moons ago. I hardly ever go there now.

[Locknar]

419's can be fun.... I've been a professional cook living on a house boat, a Star Ship Captain (yes, CAPT Kirk as a matter of fact), a murderer, and a host of others.

My best one...I was independently wealthy, and lived in NYC...."traveled" to Nigeria and stayed at the airport hotel....flew back, and was killed...came back as my "estate laywer".

[TheDoLittle]

I do baiting occasionally. My personae is an old pervert who has a farm where I raise Jack-a-lopes. Right now there are at least 6 people still waiting for their 2 ton shipments of Jack-a-lope meat packaged in "Texas Smeg Sauce".

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David O. Little
-=The DoLittle 8-)=-

[YourSpleen]

I quite enjoyed being an elderly Asian man, because it let me write up nice responses to the scammer, run it through babelfish to whatever language I felt whimsical about, and running it back to English, and then sending that as the reply. It was truly priceless to see semi-literate scammers and utterly destroyed Engrish cross paths.

Any time you get them off script is good, simply because they have to pay personal attention to you, and that costs them their own time.

As far as I know, I still have a voicemail account for one "John Luke Picard" somewhere.

[Locknar]

Ah...running through babelfish (et all) - nice touch :)

[kmortis]

I quite enjoyed being an elderly Asian man, because it let me write up nice responses to the scammer, run it through babelfish to whatever language I felt whimsical about, and running it back to English, and then sending that as the reply. It was truly priceless to see semi-literate scammers and utterly destroyed Engrish cross paths.

Any time you get them off script is good, simply because they have to pay personal attention to you, and that costs them their own time.

As far as I know, I still have a voicemail account for one "John Luke Picard" somewhere.

If you ever want to save a step, just use this (http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/). It runs multiple passes of Bablefish for you. It's great to make Pakistani Homeopath-like dribble.

You get stuff like this (I bolded the passage I used)

I completely had that is to the plea, old Asian of the man, because it
let it to prepare to scammer more pleasant of the answers, to execute
it of babelfish the language yet, of that approached whimsical and
English he with the end still to execute themselves and that one would
think about whereas the answer that he then transmits. They were
really priceless, scammers to the germ-extremity-format and the ways
of the movement the destroyed end to see completely of off the track
of Engrish.

Just trying to make you life a little easier.

[Uncle Feedle]

As one of the first people to join 419eater, I was a forum member there for several years. Initially there were only a few dozen of us. Now of course, the member list is vast.

I was 'Charlie Fake'. As a baiter, I ran many baits, and had a few published here and there. I was particularly fond of 'safaris'. This is where you trick a scammer into making a long pointless journey at his own expense.

My best work was when myself and others ran a bait in which we tricked a UK-based scammer into driving up from London to Glasgow (about 380 miles) for no purpose other than our own amusement. I managed to get the guy on video at the meeting site, including filming the moment where he is told on the phone that the whole thing is a prank. I also created fake CCTV pictures, among other things.

You can read the bait in the Letters Archive. It is titled "The Road To Nowhere". The video is in there too.

Eventually I decided to quit 419eater, largely due to the level of censorship from the forum moderators. It was becoming ridiculously politically-correct and thoroughly over-moderated for my liking. I still enjoy baiting from time to time though!

[TheDoLittle]

You can read the bait in the Letters Archive. It is titled "The Road To Nowhere". The video is in there too.

Actually it was that write up and video that got me interested in doing scambaits!! Though the one where those guys go to Darfur in an attempt to take the laptops and money from the priests doing charity work in the warzome was the clencher for me.

I too quit the forums. It's pretty bad when you ask for help with a bait and all I got was a lot of flack for asking for help.

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David O. Little
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