Okay, here is my quick and dirty website to show my scambaiting efforts so far. I only started near the end of May, 2004 after reading some of the baiting efforts of others.
The two principle sources of my inspiration are:
Usual formatting applies:
Their letters are in blue.
Mine are in red.
[In-line commentary in bold green]
I currently use two characters:
Ima Choad is a Buddhist lady who runs a charity in LA to educate the
public on vegetarianism. She expouts random Eastern mysticism nonsense often
and refuses to use a cell phone as it would disrupt her "inner harmony". Her
charity, Californian Office of Quelling Unethical Eating (COQUE) obtains
sizable donations from sundry celebrities. [For the
unitiated, choad is an archaic term for penis.] The image used
is a local celebrity in Australia of relatively little note.
Peter Jackson [Actually, no, not the New Zealand film
maker - Peter Jackson is a common brand of cigarettes in Australia] is
the CEO of COQUE cigarettes which has recently expanded into the American
market. Peter is too deaf to use the phone (and, of course, we can't trust the
PA with such sensitive info, can we?). Peter's alter ego is none other
than the Cigarette Smoking (Cancer) Man from the X-Files.
I can't wait to make a religious leader just as soon as I obtain a scam-mail
asking for donations!
More will come, including a split-personality Bruce Banner (with a personality
with Tourette's Syndrome).
Note: Cheung Pei and Mary
Johnson are good starting points for learning about Ima Choad and
Douglas George is a good primer for the Peter Jackson character.
That way I do not have to repeat comments on common photos, etc.
Scammers under fire are (in alphabetical order):
| Image | Name | Initial Date | Most Recent Date |
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Chen Liuyong | 21/05/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Cheung Pei | 01/06/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Douglas George | 19/05/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Ian Shipman | 19/05/2004 | 02/07/2004 |
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Jeffrey Rice | 30/05/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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John Owen | 01/06/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Joseph Anusi | 19/05/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Joy Rioh | 12/06/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Jun Cheng | 11/06/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Mary Johnson (Page 2) (Page 3) | 19/05/2004 | 03/07/2004 |
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Sieu Wang | 07/06/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
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Steve Rafah | 22/05/2004 | 02/07/2004 |
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Wang Qin | 14/06/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
Note: The turd pictures will be replaced if/when they send a trophy worthy photo of themselves (i.e. not some fake photo but fitting my request).
Also, remember that dates are in dd/mm/yyyy format (like normal humans do).
Modus Operandi:
You will notice that I throw in words that often don't fit or purposely misspell things; I am not an idiot (well, I probably am but not in this context, okay?). I like to rabbit on a bit here and there and make them read as much drivel as I have to. People who know me know that I love stupid puns and I feel that you will come to realise that as you read my efforts. I often swap surnames and first names to try to catch them out. With the "supposedly" Asian ones, I use the second name as the Christian name, even if the sender is most likely not aware that is how things are done there.
I never change the subject line and always leave all previous message text in the reply. I prefer to make them put the effort in and to waste their time downloading the unnecessary, redundant prior conversation as that will always end up costing them more time and effort. It is no skin off my back as I have a 1.5Mbps link. Of course, I do not bore you gentle readers with the extraneous crap, however.
I do not reformat their posts to me, except that superfluous carriage-returns are automatically discarded. Oh, I also remove any automatically generated ads from the bottom of the messages - why should their ISP's get free coverage?
By the way, I fully realise that an intelligent recipient of my responses could
deduce from the timestamps that I am not in the US but these folks are just way
too eager and/or dim to work that out...
I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoyed making them.
| ChaosWorrier |
Last Update: 04/07/2004 |