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Scam Baiting Techniques

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 way of scam baitings are referred to as "straight baits".

Other goals of scam baiting 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 scamr as a step forward towards a hopeless goal.

Many scam baiters would also 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.

In 419 scam baiting techniques, 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.

There have also been recognized cases of scammers tattooing themselves at asking for of the baiter.

A further addition in to the scam baiters armory in the scam baiting, 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 then homer Simpson; and with fictionalized versions of living or deceased celebrities such as Mr. T, 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.