419eater
Scambaiting is something that I've been doing for some time now. It's very fun, allows you creativity, and helps fight against a crime that drains billions of dollars annually from victims across the world.
The basic idea: find a scammer (any scammer can do). Create an account that does not use your personal details. Write back and string him along as long as possible. There are always problems and the problems are always the scammer's fault.
Advanced modalities ("modalities" is a word that scammers are fond of, and hence has become used in the baiting community) include having the scammers fill out fake forms, take photos of themselves, produce and mail artwork (wood carvings are popular), and "go on safari" which involves getting the scammer to travel somewhere, preferably across an international border.
The point is to drain their time and resources and have them concentrate on you rather than on an actual victim.
Scambaiting
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Re: Scambaiting
So you are trolling baddies now. Good job.
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Felix the Cat
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Re: Scambaiting
I've been trolling baddies for a while.rattle wrote:So you are trolling baddies now. Good job.
This forum is so easy to troll it's hard to resist, what with all of the easily trollable people on here who will not be named but whose names everyone knows, and the mods all being hippies and wanting to let everyone express their ideas, dude, *toke toke* whoa this weed is really good, dude *toke toke*.
REGARDLESS WE ALREADY HAVE A THREAD IN WHICH WE DISCUSS TROLLING THE FORUM, IT IS CONVENIENTLY LOCATED HERE.
ITT: SCAMBAITING.
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SwiftSpear
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- Joined: 12 Aug 2005, 09:29
Re: Scambaiting
Haha, foundation for the ethical trolls of America.
I like the setup that one guy in the letters section has. Get them to send art on the premise that you're offering artistic scholarships, and then string them along as long as possible, then communicate with them impersonating a cop who caught some guy running a fake art scam and get them to fill out a bunch of police forms about how they were victimized.
I like the setup that one guy in the letters section has. Get them to send art on the premise that you're offering artistic scholarships, and then string them along as long as possible, then communicate with them impersonating a cop who caught some guy running a fake art scam and get them to fill out a bunch of police forms about how they were victimized.
Re: Scambaiting
Humpcatting for me.
It's similar to bear blasting.
It's similar to bear blasting.