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protokatie:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 31, 2009, 02:03:27 pm ---Well, if you're going to do this, at least don't fall prey to the same joke most of the 419 Hunters seem to get played on them.

They troll the scammers into doing things for them, before revealing the game, and then the scammer always does a fess up and talk about how successful they are at scamming people.  The hunters ALWAYS believe it and post their stuff far and wide thinking they're protecting us from an elaborate and far reaching scam.

Let's see... a man who attempts to make a living by tricking people out of their money... that tells the hunters that he's vastly wealthy as a result of his efforts.  Perhaps he's trying to get the hunter to buy into his lucrative scam?



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Never heard of this happening. (Not saying it hasn't). The idea for a baiter is to make the scam artist follow the baiter's rules, not the other way around. My rule for it is as thus: If I know I am dealing with a real scam artist, I will never bend. They will do what I need them to do, and will be presented in a way that makes it look like I will still give them money. If it turns out I am not dealing with a scam artist, but someone who is legit, I will simply leave. I am sure there have been some baiters who have come across legit "lads", and this is unfortunate. Luckily for us, it is only a minor inconvenience for the few legit people who look like scammers. Also, any legit person or entity would be like "WTF!" when it comes to some of the demands that baiters ask. (Such as taking a pic of yourself with a sign that says something odd).

Ummon:
Sounds like a lot of work. On that note, you know, it's a lot of work being a scammer. And you could consider it a sort of evolutionary element - weeding out the smart and emotionally unattached from the dim and sappy - it comes to mind that a proper society might actually commend such folk. ??

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