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Scam baiting as G***** W B***
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I figured there hasn't been a thread about scam baiting in a while, and I honestly find it fascinating. Not to the point where I'd do it myself and keep up with updates, but I like going to their sites and forums. It's essentially like the P-p-p-powerbook, except done on a constant basis.
Given their mission statement of an every drop in the ocean matters approach to actually preventing scams/delivering karma, one would wonder if it's a justification for wasting that much time on what is essentially obscure forum humor.
When I checked 419 Eater today, I saw that someone managed to convince a scammer he was Bush because the scammer had cc'd president@whitehouse.gov. He got him to stage performances ad self finance a studio recording project for a Nigerian version of YMCA, and got the guy to travel on his own expenses to another African country, thinking Air Force One would pick him and his friends up and set them up with US Passports and a musical career with "L***** V******"
http://www.the-numpties.info/the_village_people_numpty.html
While I wouldn't believe the scammer thought he was dealing with Bush, it seems pretty obvious he got this guy to jump through a lot of hoops and spend a lot of money (as well as taking cam whore pics)
Yet somehow I'm inclined to believe the scammers go along with the counterscamming for their own entertainment- using email for a living has to be boring and everyone finds stupid diversions on the internet.
Given their mission statement of an every drop in the ocean matters approach to actually preventing scams/delivering karma, one would wonder if it's a justification for wasting that much time on what is essentially obscure forum humor.
When I checked 419 Eater today, I saw that someone managed to convince a scammer he was Bush because the scammer had cc'd president@whitehouse.gov. He got him to stage performances ad self finance a studio recording project for a Nigerian version of YMCA, and got the guy to travel on his own expenses to another African country, thinking Air Force One would pick him and his friends up and set them up with US Passports and a musical career with "L***** V******"
http://www.the-numpties.info/the_village_people_numpty.html
While I wouldn't believe the scammer thought he was dealing with Bush, it seems pretty obvious he got this guy to jump through a lot of hoops and spend a lot of money (as well as taking cam whore pics)
Yet somehow I'm inclined to believe the scammers go along with the counterscamming for their own entertainment- using email for a living has to be boring and everyone finds stupid diversions on the internet.
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He wants to do it as GWB and see if he gets away with it.
Look up P-p-p-powerbook, you'll get a laugh. Also look up 419eater because it's a good read too.
Well technically it'd probably be fraud
against someone already committing fraud
Kind of like murdering a murderer. Or burning an arsonist.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
What if no money changes hands?
Regardless, you're all a bunch of dick-fuckers with no sense of humor. I imagine most of you running around your city going "JAYWALKER THAT'S ILLEGAL MOTHERFUCKER MWRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH".
Hell, go for it if you like. The odds of being prosecuted over it seem pretty small, but that doesn't mean it's not a risk. Just have to ask yourself if it's a risk worth taking.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I stand by my assertion that many of the more vocal of you are similar to the MWRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH example I provided earlier. Except I'm sure you don't say anything out loud, just under your breath.
"MWRRAAAAAAAAARAGH THAT FUCKER JAYWALKED I WISH I COULD ARREST HIM MYSELF MOTHERFUCKER MWRAAAAAAAAAAAGH"
Supposedly this is illegal as it's fraud.(citation needed) Discuss the semantics of trying to have a small-claims issue across two countries that don't have a similar legal system.
And what are these Scam-baiters doing? Ruining the scams of Nigerian Mobsters. Costing them money and pissing them off. Yeah, we are kill-joys for suggesting that this might not me a bright idea.
People who waste their time with just email / camwhore them don't really put anything at risk.
Sometimes I wish I could find out who a person is who uses free email addresses. You're putting way too much stock into their abilities. I'd be hard pressed to put anything more downloaded the bat! and set up some scripts from friends.
Always.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
It's like the little red-headed step-child I always wanted.
Yeah, and TAL and Ira, while trying to remain neutral, were pretty clearly disgusted by these baiters and what they were doing.
Bad joss man, bad joss.
Actually, 'two wrongs don't make a right' sums it up much better.
The man in question was attempting to scam a church. And later attempted to scam someone who he thought had a daughter dying of cancer. I was disgusted by the scammer and eagerly anticipated his cumuppance.
I think doing this is potentially risky, though not very, and I have a problem creating a moral equivalence between a guy trying to soak a naive housewife for her life savings, and a guy toying with such a scam artist and forcing him to waste some time and money. The committing fraud part is stupid and illegal, but I'm not sure it's necessarily immoral.
I think that about sums it up?
Throw in a few more abortions and something about Obama.
This sums up my feelings about it. Way to go bear.
Most likely they probably paid someone to have them put it on themselves and then took a picture of it. They're notorious for that. They're also notorious of owning brothels full of women/paying prostitutes and taking pictures of them holding white cardboard so they can do bad photoshops of a "Hi there [shithead] I love you" sort of pictures.
I'm glad someone's doing it because it's funny and I don't have sympathy for scammers. And these guys seem to be tolerated by law enforcement (and I believe have on occasion provided them with info? not sure about that though) so I'm not concerned for their safety.
I do have trouble believing they get the scammers to bite in the more outlandish baits, like the one I linked. I think the scammers play along because they're bored.
some are photoshopped some are real but all are of random people posing for a few naira and not the scammers themseves.
this one is a classic though
i bet you hate telemarketers and chinese farmers too....
A block of cheese I think. Some put fish on their heads. It's all to join a church and get donation money to start a local church there.