My new (not arcade) hobby!

[protokatie]

Well it looks like I now have two highly addictive hobbies.

Thanks to another poster on this forum, I was reintroduced to 419eater (after like 4 years!) and now I am hot on the trail of trying to land lads and have fun with them (with an intermediate "ultimate" goal of getting a carved c64 in the process).

Hell, I even have my own anonymous fax/VM line, web site (for my new "church") and a private (no WHOIS) domain name.... All this within a week of seeing a "particular post".


All I have to say is: DAMN YOU! I had forgotten about this site and what it did so I wouldn't get addicted to it!

Argh. Well, wasting the time of scam artists does have it moral positives... But I'm only into it because it is a sport like fishing... Let's see who catches the biggest fish.

Guess I will have less time for BYOAC, since it is now 419 fishing season. (Ill still be around, not like anyone here had any attachment to me )

[Hoopz]

I know it's all fun and games, but I'd really hesitate at messing around with organized crime. 

I used to have a hobby of messing with clearly mentally unstable people online (and still poke them here occasionally) and after the second or third guy that was calling family, work, ISPs, police, et al I decided maybe it was time to find a new hobby.

 

Or maybe just trying to be nice?   

[RayB]

Hell, I even have my own anonymous fax/VM line, web site (for my new "church") and a private (no WHOIS) domain name.... All this within a week of seeing a "particular post".

You know, fraud works both ways. That guy may have "had fun" with that 419'er, but technically he commited fraud himself.

[protokatie]

Hell, I even have my own anonymous fax/VM line, web site (for my new "church") and a private (no WHOIS) domain name.... All this within a week of seeing a "particular post".

You know, fraud works both ways. That guy may have "had fun" with that 419'er, but technically he commited fraud himself.

Yeah, I wont actually be getting anything from my baiting, just wasting the time of scam artists so they don't have as much time to scam real victims...

[Kevin Mullins]

I've only played that game while fishing for a Russian bride.   

[Ummon]

Guess I will have less time for BYOAC, since it is now 419 fishing season. (Ill still be around, not like anyone here had any attachment to me )

Alas, secret admirers are...ah...secret.

[protokatie]

Guess I will have less time for BYOAC, since it is now 419 fishing season. (Ill still be around, not like anyone here had any attachment to me )

Alas, secret admirers are...ah...secret.

You trying to hint at something, maybe say something on your mind? Is there something you know but should share with the class?

[HaRuMaN]

Hell, I even have my own anonymous fax/VM line, web site (for my new "church") and a private (no WHOIS) domain name.... All this within a week of seeing a "particular post".

You know, fraud works both ways. That guy may have "had fun" with that 419'er, but technically he commited fraud himself.

Yeah, I wont actually be getting anything from my baiting, just wasting the time of scam artists so they don't have as much time to scam real victims...

You contradict yourself:

(with an intermediate "ultimate" goal of getting a carved c64 in the process).

[Ummon]

Guess I will have less time for BYOAC, since it is now 419 fishing season. (Ill still be around, not like anyone here had any attachment to me )

Alas, secret admirers are...ah...secret.

You trying to hint at something, maybe say something on your mind? Is there something you know but should share with the class?

Hm Hm Hm Hm. Just obscurely speculating.

[protokatie]

Hell, I even have my own anonymous fax/VM line, web site (for my new "church") and a private (no WHOIS) domain name.... All this within a week of seeing a "particular post".

You know, fraud works both ways. That guy may have "had fun" with that 419'er, but technically he commited fraud himself.

Yeah, I wont actually be getting anything from my baiting, just wasting the time of scam artists so they don't have as much time to scam real victims...

You contradict yourself:

(with an intermediate "ultimate" goal of getting a carved c64 in the process).

Yeah, I gave up on the idea of getting anything from these guys, as I found the idea to be against the very reason why I am fighting them. Although, a wood carving of a C64 would be nice

[protokatie]

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?

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. ??