Scam Baiting Techniques

Primary goal of scam baiters:

  • The primary goal of scambaiting is to distract the scammer and to stop the scammers operation. One goal of scam baiting techniques is just to waste a 419 scammer's time. If the scam artist is talking to a baiter they are not talking with a possible victim. These ways of scam baiting are referred to as "straight baits".
  • Other goals of scam baiting is to carry the pleasure of baiters and their readers. To that end, a general status symbol among scam baiters is the collection or display of a photographic "trophy," a picture apparently taken of the scammer, typically while holding custom made signs, or in odd poses with exact props (such as placing a fish on one's head). Other trophies could include documents such as oaths and the pseudo legal documents, taken as the 419 scam as a step forward towards a hopeless goal.
  • Scam baiters filch nearly $200 million from Americans annually and make some of their victims to suicide. But Nigeria's notorious e-mail scam may lastly have met their match and the results can be hilarious.

Combat between Scammers and Scambaiters:

Everyone with an email account had received at least one letter from a desperate person in Nigeria who claims a large amount of money. But desires help with expenses in order to regain it. Over the years, thousands have fallen victim to this fraudulent appeal.

But some were decided to fight back against these scammers. They are called scam baiters and they decided to give scammers a taste of their own remedy.

Scam baiter tricks to bait the scammers:

They would claim to have sent the scammers to a Western Union office frequently to collect the allegedly sent money or to get scammers to book hotels for them. Others have had the criminals turn up at hotels, docks and the airports expecting to greet their intended victims. In such cases the comedy is actually extended by asking the scammers to request characters with odd or punning names.

Scam baiters have also begged telephone calls from scammers. These calls are frequently intended to be entertaining and to just waste the 419 scam mail senders time and money on an overseas call. Many audio recordings could be really found on sites dedicated to scam baiting, documenting the conversations of the baiters with their scammers. More ordinary is the practice of supplying the criminals with premium rate numbers and asking them to call you repeatedly, citing various reasons why the hypothetical victim is unobtainable.

419 scam baiter:

A further addition in to the scam baiters armory in the scambaiting, is to expand by stages the range of characters talking to the 419 scam baiter until he or she is faced by a battery of peculiars, each demanding more and more of their time. Such characters have built-in wholly fabricated personalities; imaginary and also legendary characters such as Bruce Wayne, The Thane of Cawdor, Marty McFly, and homer Simpson and with fitionalized versions of living or deceased celebrities such as Mr., David Lee Roth, HRH Princess Margaret, and plus Marion Morrison.

The joke for those in the know lies in endlessly protracting such as ridiculous communications, including many numerous in-jokes, all even as building a strange tangle of supporting detail to stall any doubts.

Rich resources:

The-dark-side-of-internet
The dark side of internet
Author: Paul Bocij
Publications:2006
Description:scam baiting involves trying to turn the tables on those who operate 419 frauds. The main aim of scam baiting is to cause the gangs behind 419 fraud to waste money, time and their effort.
web-stalkers
web-stalkers
Author:Stephen Andert, Donald K. Burleson
Publications:2005
Description: Protect Yourself from Internet Criminals & Psychopaths. It explains about Scambaiting which has a scoring system. All scambaiters keep a running total of how much money the scammers has wasted on postage.
cons-and-frauds
Cons and Frauds
Author:Michael Benson, John L. French
Publications:2008
Description: Cons and frauds explains a variety of the bait and switch scam. Bait and switch occurs when a store advertises a sale to draw customers into the store and then instead of giving the promised discount.

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Scam Baiting Techniques

Primary goal of scam baiters:

  • The primary goal of scambaiting is to distract the scammer and to stop the scammers operation. One goal of scam baiting techniques is just to waste a 419 scammer's time. If the scam artist is talking to a baiter they are not talking with a possible victim. These ways of scam baiting are referred to as "straight baits".
  • Other goals of scam baiting is to carry the pleasure of baiters and their readers. To that end, a general status symbol among scam baiters is the collection or display of a photographic "trophy," a picture apparently taken of the scammer, typically while holding custom made signs, or in odd poses with exact props (such as placing a fish on one's head). Other trophies could include documents such as oaths and the pseudo legal documents, taken as the 419 scam as a step forward towards a hopeless goal.
  • Scam baiters filch nearly $200 million from Americans annually and make some of their victims to suicide. But Nigeria's notorious e-mail scam may lastly have met their match and the results can be hilarious.

Combat between Scammers and Scambaiters:

Everyone with an email account had received at least one letter from a desperate person in Nigeria who claims a large amount of money. But desires help with expenses in order to regain it. Over the years, thousands have fallen victim to this fraudulent appeal.

But some were decided to fight back against these scammers. They are called scam baiters and they decided to give scammers a taste of their own remedy.

Scam baiter tricks to bait the scammers:

They would claim to have sent the scammers to a Western Union office frequently to collect the allegedly sent money or to get scammers to book hotels for them. Others have had the criminals turn up at hotels, docks and the airports expecting to greet their intended victims. In such cases the comedy is actually extended by asking the scammers to request characters with odd or punning names.

Scam baiters have also begged telephone calls from scammers. These calls are frequently intended to be entertaining and to just waste the 419 scam mail senders time and money on an overseas call. Many audio recordings could be really found on sites dedicated to scam baiting, documenting the conversations of the baiters with their scammers. More ordinary is the practice of supplying the criminals with premium rate numbers and asking them to call you repeatedly, citing various reasons why the hypothetical victim is unobtainable.

419 scam baiter:

A further addition in to the scam baiters armory in the scambaiting, is to expand by stages the range of characters talking to the 419 scam baiter until he or she is faced by a battery of peculiars, each demanding more and more of their time. Such characters have built-in wholly fabricated personalities; imaginary and also legendary characters such as Bruce Wayne, The Thane of Cawdor, Marty McFly, and homer Simpson and with fitionalized versions of living or deceased celebrities such as Mr., David Lee Roth, HRH Princess Margaret, and plus Marion Morrison.

The joke for those in the know lies in endlessly protracting such as ridiculous communications, including many numerous in-jokes, all even as building a strange tangle of supporting detail to stall any doubts.

Rich resources:

The-dark-side-of-internet
The dark side of internet
Author: Paul Bocij
Publications:2006
Description:scam baiting involves trying to turn the tables on those who operate 419 frauds. The main aim of scam baiting is to cause the gangs behind 419 fraud to waste money, time and their effort.
web-stalkers
web-stalkers
Author:Stephen Andert, Donald K. Burleson
Publications:2005
Description: Protect Yourself from Internet Criminals & Psychopaths. It explains about Scambaiting which has a scoring system. All scambaiters keep a running total of how much money the scammers has wasted on postage.
cons-and-frauds
Cons and Frauds
Author:Michael Benson, John L. French
Publications:2008
Description: Cons and frauds explains a variety of the bait and switch scam. Bait and switch occurs when a store advertises a sale to draw customers into the store and then instead of giving the promised discount.

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