Welcome back to the Vampire.. :)

I slept for what seemed like forever, because I was really tired and I felt like I was getting the flu, sore throat, nasty headache. I think it was something like 16 hours. But hopefully this will mean I am back on a somewhat normal schedule. I’ve been sleeping days and staying up nights for over a week now. If I am really honest with myself, I am a night person.

So if you’re wondering why you haven’t seen me on your blog and why I haven’t commented as I usually do, it’s because I was dreaming of being in this big bike race down a road that wasn’t finished yet with all the kids I hated from school.

While I was asleep the other half went to work and got the plans for their new kitchen sorted out, then went to the pub and won a meat tray and $40 on the pokies. Seeing as this meat tray made its way here now that we have a bbq, I have pictures for you! ;)

meat

So on todays agenda (Yay I finally have one!) is a nice drive – possibly to check the post office box and see if there’s more fake scammer checks for my check wall. It’s pretty windy so I am not sure a beach is in my future, we might go to Warrawong and maybe visit JB Hifi instead, and spend the found $40 on dvd’s – I have a shopping list! Undoubtedly I will leave it at home. I want to get a plate set for outside which is not ceramic. I like plastic myself, but melamine is an option.. ;) Then back here to cook meat and comment on 50 zillion blogs ;) Be good ya’all.

Aussie Culture, scambaiting, Who Is Snoskred

Depression etc.

Everyone gets depressed from time to time, I think. I have struggled with it myself. I’ll be honest, it looked to me when I was at the bottom of that hole that I would never be able to climb my way out of it, but I did, mostly by my fingernails.

My really good friend Sephyroth is
struggling with depression at the moment.

I’m a bit upset because some scambaiters have treated this friend of mine badly. You should be ashamed of yourselves for how you treated this very good friend of mine. Someone who has always been there – not just for me, but for *anyone* who needed help and asked for it. Someone who now does not do a lot of the stuff he could do simply because you have shown him time and time and TIME again that you do not appreciate it. That you just treat him like my “lapdog”.

Sephy, I know this is not going to be easy but I am here for you and you will come out the other side of this. I am so proud of you for standing up and admitting when something is wrong, and now moving forward to working on a solution. It might not happen overnight, but it will happen.

Guys, you may not know this, but Sephy is the person I turn to when I need help. It might be something as simple as searching for something on the internet (which I am terrible at but thanks to his help am improving) or something as complicated as helping me organise a spreadsheet to keep track of which lad I am baiting with which address from which country. He is also an incredibly talented baiter, and is currently baiting a couple of lads as my character tyr@ and I am just doing the voices on the phone calls.

When you and I work together Sephy, lads suffer. That’s what it is all about, working together. The fucknuts seem to have forgotten that. They would not know how to work together if they found themselves all tied together in a bag at the bottom of a swimming pool, and they would all drown. You and I wouldn’t mate. ;) We’d work to find a way out, together. Just like we will find a way to dig you out of this depression.

Thank you so much for always being there to help me. You don’t know how much I appreciate it. And I believe you really are an Aussie on the inside – being there for your mates is something this country is based on.

depression, people talking about you, scambaiting

Not political..

I might not be around much over the next few days, as my favourite Aunt and Uncle jet into town late tomorrow, so we’re off to Sydney to pick them up and bring them back here for a few days of tourism South Coast style.

I was just reading around the blogs and stuff, and I realised that I have not really said anything about Australian Politics. This is a good thing, because I believe politics polarises people. There are some bloggers who are left, some who are right, and some who are green, and some who are all that and more. I’ve avoided the whole topic for the most part because I don’t want to piss anyone off by shoving my beliefs in their face like bloggers sometimes do.

I don’t care what your political beliefs are, ya’all. They’re yours, and you get to have them, as does everyone else. I hope you can extend the same courtesy to me if and when I choose to state what mine are. That won’t be now, because to be honest I really don’t have a great amount of strong feelings one way or another about politics these days.

I sure did have some back when our good friend and self proclaimed saviour Pauline was around – I was very much against everything she stood for. That’s because I believe what she stood for was – point at some group of people, tell everyone “That’s the reason for all the problems in your life” and then have people go whoa, she’s so right, why didn’t I realise it before? But you can’t point a finger at a group of people and blame everything that is wrong in your life with them existing and say, if they did not exist, my life would be perfect – that just isn’t true.

Realistically, Pauline was a creation of two Davids who put words into her mouth, I believe. I don’t think she really believed any of the stuff she said. That was kind of given away by the obvious vacuum in her head anytime people asked her stuff – if she didn’t have a canned response all ready for it, she ummed and ahhed and just had no clue.

However, I hope she doesn’t find out where I live, I’ve used her name to bait the scammers and I have a shitload of checks on my wall with her name on them, and though they are all fake she might think she can use them to start up another party.. ;)

But the scariest thing about what Pauline did was the people who jumped on her bandwagon. I was at the protest in Adelaide, and I saw a 12 year old kid get beaten up by members of a very scary hate group because he dared to throw an egg Pauline’s way. It wasn’t reported (I think the reporters themselves were terrified of that group of people to be honest) but it was extremely scary.

Speaking of beliefs, I am really disappointed. I wanted to find out what religion I am using the Belief-O-Matic and it wouldn’t work for me! I tried for some time but it kept having an error. It’s still not working, so I am still without a religion. Oh well. Let’s hope the world don’t end over the next few days and maybe the people will get it fixed or something..

>Be good while I’m off touristing, ya’all..

About Snoskred, scambaiting

More stuff..

Yes, the quest to have the world’s longest sidebar continues.. we now have a lovely clock, and more planes.

It’s too windy to go outside and dead spiders, so instead a few little chores round the house and an afternoon listening to music and trying to clear the massive backlog of emails is on the cards. You can see the results of the mail reading here later today when I get around to putting it there but in the meantime there’s the results of mail reading from Sunday there at the moment..

I tell you, nothing gets me laughing like these scammer emails.. it’s hilarious stuff! Here’s a random one – after 18 emails back and forward he says –

  • We Knows The Serious Contender Who Are Financially Capable To Help. You Are Not Trusthworthy,And I can Proceed With You If You Are Ready To Come For The Signing Of The Release Order Documents In Accra Ghana.

Perhaps We Should All Use Capital Letters For Every Word We Write Too?

scambaiting

Current Playlist

Yay, the server is back up. So yesterday I spent a little time going through the mp3 files we have, and I have made a playlist. My recent track listings from last.fm mainly consisted of Nirvana for the last couple of weeks, that was really the only music I had available to me, though I do love them plenty, it’s not the only thing I listen to. Over the next two weeks this should change significantly.

I find that music tends to keep me sane and happy, so I like to listen to plenty of it. The darkest times in my life have always seemed to be when I stopped listening to any music at all.

So my plan for today is play music, and read scammer emails. I’m gonna post a bunch of them to the scambaiter blog so make sure to check it out ;) And YAY for Bon Jovi, and Kylie Minogue, and Robbie Williams, and A-ha, and Guns and Roses, and INXS, and Silverchair, and U2, and Metallica, and Nirvana!

My signature on Scambaits always contains some song lyrics and I’m sure I’ll come across some new ones today, I like to change them often because what I am thinking and listening to often changes. ;)

music, scambaiting

Time for a laugh.

So yeah, it’s been a bit of a bad week in blog world. People missing out on jobs, people saying goodbye to loved pets, and various other unpleasant happenings.

I’ve actually had a fairly reasonable week here, with the exception of –

  • not being able to find my good paintbrushes and sequins,
  • not really having any clue what I want to do with myself now even though it seems my parents are happy to pay me to stay at home, bait, blog, and watch Dr Phil and Oprah.

So today to have a bit of a laugh, I’ve been looking for some funny stuff I can link you to, or post myself, and I found this list of Carson Kressley quotes. I really think he’s funny. :) Or perhaps you’re in the mood to create your own Darkly Gothic poem? You might want to make a madlibs.

And take a look at this blog post by my mate Sephy over on the scambaiter blog which contains the most hilarious email ever written to a scammer, in my opinion..

funny, scambaiting

100th blog!

Yay, that was fast. The blog is only a month and a half or so old. You may not get Quality here folks but you sure get Quantity. :)Speaking of Q words, I believe the following explains precisely why some scambaiters have found it difficult to cope with me. A quote from the book Black Box

“This exaggerated respect for a pilot is greater in a hierarchical society, or.. when the junior member of the crew has been schooled in automatic obedience to his superiors in the course of military training. I believe that Qantas’s success in remaining virtually accident free throughout the years owes a lot to a peculiarly Australian factor: the willingness of Australians to stand up to their bosses. In their non-hierarchical society subordinates are culturally encouraged to feel free to challenge their superiors. In airline management terms this leads to a healthy tension between air crew and management, who cannot impose their ideas as easily as they can among more obedient races. If an Aussie crew member thinks a plane is potentially unsafe he will not hesitate to say so, loudly and frequently. This could do more than any conditioning to save lives”

I believe this is why a few (and a very few at that) people had issues with me. I have strong beliefs, and I do speak them, loudly and frequently. If I believe something is wrong, I do not hesitate to say so. But you know, it’s their loss. I don’t see anyone stepping up to do much these days – it’s all talk and no action and many of the people I recruited to work as a part of a team are back to working on their own with no help or team to back them up.

Even worse than that, there’s little training for any new people coming onto the scene, to the extent that people are now worse off than they were when I got into scambaiting originally. No mentoring in dealing with victims and their issues, not even given the tools to do the job with, right down to email accounts that are safe for them to warn from. If people make mistakes, they then get slapped hard and/or kicked in the teeth for it. It’s no wonder people aren’t putting up their hand to help victims. I would not – in fact I am one of those people back to working on my own.

I have a bit of a blog burning inside me that’s going to come out sooner or later. Have patience, it will get here. :)

In other news, my attempt to have the longest sidebar in the history of blogging seems to be stalling somewhat. I need to find more things to put there. If you’re a blogger reading this and you have something in your sidebar on your blog, please throw me a comment. :)

scambaiting, Who Is Snoskred

These sequins may come to you as a surprise.

I should explain the joke, for the non-scambaiters. Scammers often start their mails –

  • This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and
  • become great friends and business partners.
  • It gives me a great deal of pleasure to write you this mail and even when it might come to you as a surprise
  • THIS MESSAGE MIGHT MEET YOU IN UTMOST SURPRISE
  • I know you will be surprise to receive this mail
  • It is indeed my pleasure to write you this letter, which I believe will be a surprise to you as we have never met before
  • Please, kindly pardon me for any inconvenience this letter may cost you because I know it may come to you as a surprise as we’have no previous correspondence

So we scambaiters find this line kind of funny. ;)

Anyway I got inspired today and created the sequin banner that you see above in photoshop. It was kinda fun ;) I might make more of them, and even take my own sequin pics to do it, we’ll see..

In the meantime, today’s DVD shelf –

dvd4
This shelf contains a mixture – some with commentary, some without.

movies, scambaiting

Doing my head in..

Ouch, I have just been working on a scambaiting task so complex that my head hurts and I had to stop! I can’t even explain it to you, it’s just too hard. I’ve been working pretty hard on baiting stuff all day actually.

So then I go to look at pretty pictures instead. But all the pretty pictures have disappeared from the network drive and now I can’t find them! ;(

Last night I watched about half of the Apollo 13 commentary track and it was fascinating. I think I might go watch the rest of it soon. If my head doesn’t explode first. I’m just going to do the blog rounds for the day..

Commentary Tracks, scambaiting

Just did my daily blog rounds..

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