I get weird looks when I tell people about baiting

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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:37 pm

@ chipmunk

How's that pick up line working for you? Laughing

Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:41 pm

My friends find it outrageously funny that there would be anyone who would fall in love with me instantly and let me take advantage of them!

Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 8:17 pm

My wife periodically asks me "are you still screwing with those people?"
I just reply "oh yeah, them? sure am!" and thats it for a few weeks. The guys at work think it very funny, but they are secretly hoping someone will show up an arrest me. That would then clear the way for a new boss...

Master Baiter Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 176

In Brasil we get a lot of phishing emails and spam. The 419 scam letters are not well known here, because of the language, I guess.

So it is very difficult to explain what I am doing. I have to explain what are these emails, who is sending, what they want, what I am doing.

When I finish explaining all of these, people just say:

a) and you are having fun with this?
b) you are crazy!
c) wow! this people are really organized (about this forum)
d) poor nigerians!

I stopped telling people. The answer I wanted was "can I become a baiter?" Smile

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:32 am

Being in Brasil and being a Baiter that gets a lot of phishing mail is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman..

If they are not in the mood then f*ck 'em I'll just watch football and scope out the chicks in the stands.. Laughing

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:51 am

Funny thing about me is that this past March, I was interviewing with Microsoft in Redmond WA USA when one of the interviewers (the one who took me to a lunchtime interview at a Mexican restaurant in nearby Bellevue) asked me what my hobbies were. I told him baiting scammers was one of them and we spent the next hour or so talking about it.

During our exchange, I could feel that several nearby patrons were listening intently on our conversation. In the end, two of the patrons approached us and asked me several really good questions about the motives and modus operadi of Nigerian and Romanian scammers. Turns out, both of them were law enforcement officers: one was a sheriff's deputy from the King County (WA) Sheriff's Office and the other was an U.S. BATF Agent.

I think that Seattle WA-area people are a lot more open-minded to new ideas than many of the people here in Texas. Smile

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:09 am

People geuninly do think I'm crazy already (due to my urge to blow things up, and my ridiclous coffee consumption) but nobody seems to get it. I just cant explain it well enough.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:09 am

I'm picky who I tell. My family knows, they're fine with it. Very select few at work know. I told my trainee and she thought it was hilarious and expressed interest in doing it, though she has no time..

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:12 am

They all think I'm crazy and I don't want to confirm it. Cool

Master Baiter Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 213

all the people thought i was carzy untill i got a cheque scrammer mail me out a fakey and i framed it amoung my other accomplishments - now i am asked a lot of things but the but without the "crazy" tag anywhere...

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:49 am

coronalight wrote:

They all think I'm crazy and I don't want to confirm it. Cool

I think you're crazy too!

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:59 am

I have shown some of my church ritual trophies.
half of the people have told me that I would go to hell for screwing with peoples minds.
The other half have asked me, What in hell do you tell these people that they actually do this crazy rituals Laughing

So now, I just keep my little secret Cool

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:09 pm

I've told a few people. My brother thinks I'm wasting my time (but it's my time to waste), my cop friend thinks I'm playing with fire, and my wife quite rightly thinks I'm an idiot.

Of all the people I've told, everyone gets a few laughs out of the material, and two of them have even started baiting.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 11:10 pm

My wife just shakes her head. My step sons don't get it, or don't care. I don't even mention it anymore.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:47 am

My 15 yr. old (boy) thinks I am very important in the world of good as I have forwarded the ones originating from Canada to our Royal Canadian Mounted Police (www.phonebusters.com).

My husband just shakes his head and tells me I am improving my computer skills and thinks I am making myself more marketable in the financial world. He has raised his eyebrows at some of my trophies, though he has never asked what I demanded or "sent" to receive such juicy ones. Some things are just plainly left unsaid!

My sister keeps phoning me with scenario�s - the last one was hiring employees for a fudge packing plant in the Ivory Coast.

Two of my friends are praying for me to find a life.

My mother keeps looking at my fake website every day and wishing it were true.

My daughter's friend just thinks I am crazy.

My daughter tried to explain my hobby to her boyfriend's mother. She does not call me anymore.

It could be worse. I could smoke too!

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