Snoskred On Scams

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Just did my daily blog rounds..

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I read probably 20-30 blogs a day. This can take up significant time, except when nobody has said anything and then you just close the tabs. Not pointing fingers anywhere in particular of course, but FFS! Say something, say anything as long as it’s something!

Today I have a lot of thoughts which I really don’t want to share with you. I’ve shared them with my other half. We’ve bounced off the walls for a bit and then eventually made a decision. I wanted to share them with Sephiroth but he’s nowhere to be seen, probably asleep. That’s ok but when you get online please skype me.

It’s been a rough 24 hours. Things have been very unhappy at work this last couple of weeks, and quite frankly it’s been making me ill. You’d know from some of my blogs that there have been issues. You know I’ve had evil tonsilitis. You don’t know there’s been a lot of stress and migraines and various other unpleasantnesses.

You don’t know that today, I went to work all fired up and ready to be a part of things only to be kicked in the teeth, yet again, for the 50 millionth time. I don’t need that in my life. Nobody does. And my parents do not need the stress this situation has placed on all of us. The other half can handle it. He somehow doesn’t get cut to the bone by the nastiness. I do, and it hurts.

I know the solution to the problem is to remove the poisoned apple from the barrel. As yet, my Dad does not seem to think he can do this. So the current solution is to remove myself from the situation until the apple is extracted.

The thing I will share with you – I am now staying home and baiting. No more work for me at this stage. If the situation at work changes, maybe this will be reconsidered.

You may not have heard this vicious rumor, but if you have the following text is especially for you. In other news,

apparently I am the genesis of all evil in the scambaiting world.

I’d be ok with that, if I actually was. You see there are people who think I spend all my time plotting against them, that I talk other people into being my spokesperson, and that I am “generally spreading disaffection” wherever I can.

Let us make this clear, once and for all.

I am not holding any grudges against anyone. THIS MEANS YOU TOO!

What do I spend all my time doing? Hmm.. baiting scammers, taking their calls, helping other baiters with their baiting projects, mentoring, blogging, reading blogs, listening to music, visiting nice beaches (see below blog), watching movies (not often enough!), cooking, cleaning, ironing, and various other chores plus a million other things. Don’t forget, playing pool. ;) Oh, and being mesmerized by the glitter lamp. That probably takes up 50% of my time ;) hehe

The people who think I would rather waste my time plotting against them instead of doing any of the above are seriously disturbed individuals. If you have ANY proof that I have been doing this, let’s see it. And not the “Oh this person said” or “That person said” shit you’ve pulled before. Actual written quotes.

I know there are none. I know you can’t do this. I know WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS GET BACK TO BAITING. Stop this monthly drama crap, quit the bullshit, BUILD A BRIDGE AND WALK OVER IT NOW.

Because *I* did it LONG AGO. As did other people you are holding grudges against. You say we have an agenda? Perhaps you are the ones who do. You want to know what’s on my agenda? Baiting scammers. Is that on yours? If not, WHY NOT?

All I want to do is bait, and get on with my life. I don’t care about any of those people who think they are so important that I am sitting here thinking of ways to hurt them or get back at them. I just want to hurt the scammers, not people I once thought of as friends.

Of course I’m sad that they weren’t really my friends – or were my friends as long as they thought they could control me. Of course I have regrets about how things turned out. I’m NOT perfect and I never claimed to be. I can be a pain in the ass. You know what though? Nobody else was doing the things that needed to be done. So I had a couple of choices – delegate and hope people helped, or just do it all myself knowing it would get done. For the most part I chose the latter.

I work hard, and I get a lot done. This threatens people who would rather sit around and talk shit. That’s fine.

Just leave me the hell alone, and I’ll do the same for you.

Now Robin, back to the batcave. Let’s bait some freaking lads people!

Gossip, scambaiting, wrong world

As I type this..

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I am actually scambaiting just over 2,400 scammers. But how do I find the time to bait so many of them at once? It’s because one of my scambaiting friends has produced something which allows you to bait lads with just 3 clicks. I can’t really say much about it out here in the open. It’s got some telephone numbers hooked up as a part of it and I have forwarded a couple of them to my phone.

Some lads rang me yesterday because the something had sent them a mail telling them another scammer wanted me to pay money to them via Western Union and they wanted to stop me from paying (so they could take my money!) and they were quite determined to stick to their rules and regulations – they wanted me to send ID before they would allow me to fly to Spain to collect my trunk boxes. I wanted to fly to Spain this weekend and I didn’t really have time to be scanning and faxing so we got into quite an argument about it. So today I sent them this little mail.

You remember that other guy I told you about? He got back to me, he seemed to know of my troubles with your security company man, and he got the owner of the company to call me. I’m going there on Saturday like I wanted to, I don’t have to send any ID, and I can pick up the consignment. It’s all under control.

See what happens when you speak to the owner instead of faffing about with assholes?

I suspect this will send them into quite a panic. I am expecting a call soon.. ;) I couldn’t really yell at the guy because it was about 2am my time when they called me so I hope they call a little earlier today and then I can really get mad.. ;)

In other Snoskred news, I went to the local sports club for a drink tonight with the other half and friends, and they had an Australian Poker League tournament on. I like poker but I didn’t like the fact this seemed to encourage every young man under the age of 30 to turn up at the club. It was really busy and I couldn’t get near the good pokie machine that always gives me money. ;( While we were there the other half announced to my Dad that we have a pool table. I expect they will wander down soon to look at it.

And, I made a cake. Yay!

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Oh NO!

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A scammer has just sent me this.. ;) I have removed the lads name so he can’t google it.

Just for a bit of background, he’s sent me a fake check. For almost 500,000 in fact. I don’t have a pic of it online yet. Since he sent it I have not replied to any of his emails and he’s freaking out.. ;)

The email subject – Atackers closer

Please note that i have been attacked by men of Mr. (His boss’s name) over your ceasure of his monies that was sent to you through check.Am indded very surprise that you could treat me this way having taken you in confidence and thought you are a transperent woman.

Am just writing you because they have promised come for you also to attacke you on your Island saying that you must pay with blood if you wants to paly games and fast one on them.

Better get to him and explain what happened to his money which he said you cleared and ceased.

You can get back to me if you wish.

Oh right, well I’ll be waiting on my island.. which is about 200kms from where I really live.. ;) and nobody lives there.. hehe but you know, I may have a telephone number for this guy. Im gonna have to give him a call..

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The 419 Letters Repository

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Hi everyone. You’ll note a couple of changes to the sidebar over there —> one of them being the addition of the 419 Letter Repository. This is a project I’m pretty excited about at the moment, getting 419 mail published on the web so that potential victims searching for an email address, scammer name, fake lotto info, telephone numbers, even just a sentence found in a scam letter will lead them to a site which identifies it as a scam. It’s not the only site on the net doing this and the others are fantastic as well but the more the merrier. Each scambaiter gets a different cross-section of emails from the scammers – and you would receive different scam mails to what I do, etc.

>If you do get 419 scam emails please I ask you to forward them to me so that they can be published – the email addy to send them to is – 419scammail@gmail.com – and I thank you in advance for your assistance.

The second thing you will notice is way down the page, just past the sun moon and stars weather square – there are now links for support for scam victims, information on 419 scams, and links to scambaiting websites. I put those together for the 419 repository and then figured why not add them here as well. :)

blog housekeeping, scambaiting

Scambaiting in a nutshell

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What is scambaiting? This one’s for the non-scambaiters visiting here.. ;)

Basically it is where someone pretends to be a “victim” – ie someone who is going to pay these scammers money.

You play along with their scam for as long as you can, wasting their time and hopefully their money – by getting them to make calls to you, of course you have to play it safe and not give them any real details.

Thanks to the internet and Skype In, you can get them calling you and you can talk to them. That is something I used to do a lot, but these days I am mainly a text baiter.

The more scammer time wasted by a scambaiter who knows it is all a scam, who will never send any money, and who will ask simple yet idiotic questions designed to make the scammers do actual work answering those questions, the less scammer time can be spent on real victims.

internet, scambaiting

Exposure.

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I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the girl with the one track mind saga. It’s a blog on the internet where a girl has been pretty intimately blogging details of her life. Somehow it got turned into a book and the girl decided to release it under a pseudonym – however, she may have forgotten for a moment that she lives in the UK, and that is the home of tabloid journalism. A newspaper found out her real name, who she really was, and then published those details.

I feel really sorry for her – I can’t imagine blogging that sort of stuff, let alone having everyone from your parents to everyone in your entire country then finding out you wrote it, and reading that kind of personal stuff.

That and another incident which I have been reminded of have led to this blog about baiters and our potential exposure. I personally would feel *safe* if my real information got out on the net, because I live in a country where there’s not too many lads, but I would be plenty not happy all the same. For some of the baiters reading this who live in the US, Canada, UK, Amsterdam and possibly even South Africa, there’s a lot more potential for harm actually finding its way to a baiter who is exposed.

So when any of us tell other people information about ourselves, we *trust* that information won’t be given to others. There’s been a couple of occasions where I have *deliberately* led fellow **baiters** astray about who someone actually is. Once it was for a joke, which the baiter himself came up with, and several of us went along with. I believe there are still some baiters who are completely unaware that it was a joke – I do not believe the baiter involved ever got a chance to dispel the myths about himself. Not because he didn’t want to, but because he got busy. And they *were* brilliant myths.. that was a heck of a lot of fun, that joke.

Once it was because unknown to other baiters, we have an incredible secret in our midst, which myself and only the baiter involved are actually aware of – as far as I know. There’s very good reasons to keep it secret and I certainly do not intend to share the secret here but the reason I mention it is.. underlying everything there has been a fear that it will get found out somehow. Looking at the One Track Mind blog, I cannot imagine the aftermath if it were to be exposed.

Those of you thinking you know what it is, you’re dead wrong. To make sure you realise this, I will now state that the secret is who someone is in real life, not who they are on the internet. Just so you know.

And now to other topics of lesser import.

1. Pride and Prejudice. I read it again. What a surprise, huh? I love this book. I actually have a big book with all Jane Austen‘s books in there – Sense and Sensibility, P&P, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan and Persuasion. I bought it for $20 a couple of years ago. The amount of times I have read it, I would hate to think. This is the book I always read in between other books. This is the book I always pick up when I go to bed, want to read a little, but am too tired to start a new book. The language is so soothing. It is almost as good as Shakespeare but my Shakespeare book is way too heavy to hold up in bed. :(

2. Indiana Jones and the temple of doom. I was playing this at work today and a kid who was about 8 years old got scared by it. Hello? What closet has this kid been sheltered in? So his Mother says to me “You should have something a bit more kid friendly on”. I said, this IS kid friendly, it’s PG rated, and most of the other movies I have which “look” kid friendly are packed full of swearing. I can’t play animation because it makes the screens look terrible and we’d never sell any. So while I was doing the invoice, she kept telling this kid not to look but he was mesmerized, and he was starting to get a bit freaked out, so I said to him, hey mate, don’t worry, he’s Indiana Jones and it all turns out fine in the end. It makes me wonder what kind of movies (if any) this kid is allowed to watch at home. It was the bit of the movie where the little kid has the voodoo doll and is stabbing it while Indy is fighting some guy. If something as simple as stabbing a voodoo doll makes this kid freak out.. I fear for his future in this world. BTW I am gonna order this, too.

3. I just watched Girl with a Pearl Earring. There’s never enough Colin Firth. Even the 6 hour Pride and Prejudice did not contain enough of him. The movie was good though.

That’s it for now, off to bed. Night all.. :)

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