Posted on 03/02/2019 7:10:56 PM PST by DoodleBob
Does somebody want to transfer millions of dollars into your account?
Does someone want to pay you to cash cheques and send them the money?
Met a new friend/penpal on a friendship/dating site who's asking you for money?
Has a dying person contacted you wanting your help to give his money to charity?
Have you sold an item and are asked to accept a payment larger than the item amount?
IT'S A SCAM!
Don't fall for common scams like this - fight them!
So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves.
It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community.
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Oh, to have the knowledge to do that. Be still my heart.
Don’t ever answer a number you don’t recognize. The minute a human picks up, as opposed to a machine, they’ve got you and will sell that number to a 100 more scammers.
The worst are Apple Inc. and Holiday Inn. I’ve never owned or will ever own an Apple product and don’t stay at Holiday Inn. Half a dozen calls a day from them and I’ve never picked up. Supposedly, those aren’t the real company, however, if they aren’t then these big mega huge companies with their hundreds of lawyers should be able to fry the scammers using their company name. Even if they don’t have much legal standing to stop variations on their brand name, they could certainly tie the scammers up for years. They don’t so that’s even more reason not to buy their products.
I must say, reading through one of the scambaiter reports was more fun than reading a good book. I read the one called “Book Worm”. It’s fascinating to see how the African scammer is then scammed himself and actually falls for it thinking he is going to get paid for an audition for a audio book company. He ends up reading and recording the entire “HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy” and sending it to the baiter.
“1060 West Addison? That’s Wrigley Field!”
I figure if it’s important enough, or someone I want or need to talk to, they’ll leave a message.
I enjoy wasting THEIR time and building up their hopes for making some $$ off a rube. I always use the same hick name, ask them if their offer is through Costco (it always is), ask if i need a passport to go to Mexico, etc.. I seem to be getting fewer calls as time goes by.
Yeah, Kitboga is my fave. He’s a hoot.
There are other hackers that do “call flooding” or lock the scammers out of their computers.
Yeap, the Blues Brothers gave me that idea. Of course scammers never catch on though when they got a return call from Keith Moon they cursed me and hung up.
Ping
Being a real estate agent I sometimes get calls from unrecognized numbers, folks responding to ads or signs or referred to me by past clients. But the trick is to pick up the call and remain silent for several seconds. The robo-dialer will interpret it as a macine and hang up, while a person there will usually say something..."Hello? Hello?"
Some companies are on to that. I got a call from a pretty good chat bot and recently have been getting floods of voice mails from a recorded message. I guess they know at some point you are going to listen if just to erase the messages.
The best is when he sticks the Memz or Wannacry virus on the scammer’s computer and it starts going crazy.
I like it when he calls them ugly names in Hindi after he locks them out.
Indians are funny when they cuss.
And riled up.
That’s great.
Lowbridge does rule!
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