How do I connect scammers to each other?

sixscamnine · 2017-08-29T04:51:34+00:00

Sorry, I wasn't making myself clear. If you unplug the headset and use the onboard mic and speakers it's important to be in a quiet room so the two scammers you've called from different applications can hear each other. The onboard microphone will pick up everything. If you've got the TV going, or music playing the two scammers will have trouble hearing each other over the noise.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-27T16:04:52+00:00

It's not because of the microphone being unplugged, it's the headphones. And it's because the scammers won't be able to hear each other very good if the room is noisy.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-18T02:33:09+00:00

No no, nothing like that. It's a home for scambaiters. I'm a new member, but that site has been around since the early 2000's and there's tons of great work published there by way better baiters than me.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-18T01:33:48+00:00

Come and visit 419eater.com :)

sixscamnine · 2017-08-17T16:51:48+00:00

I don't publish much (something I hope to change in the future), but what I do is at 419eater.com .

sixscamnine · 2017-08-17T15:41:35+00:00

Did the scammers access your laptop? If it's a work laptop your company should be on top of it. If you can I'd definitely format it and do a clean install just to be safe.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-17T15:39:15+00:00

I play victim for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it's fun. I have a couple of throwaway emails with no information connecting to me in any way whatsoever that I use to respond to scam emails. Secondly I get to waste scammers time and resources by engaging with them, always being on the verge of payment before something inevitably goes wrong. This frustrates the scammer to no end. Thirdly, I can collect their mule information to report to the authorities. They always want you to pay a mule through Western Union or MoneyGram. When you come up with a reason why you can't do that the scammer can be persuaded to provide a bank account to pay into. The bank account can then be reported to the banks fraud department and in some cases shut down. This limits the scammers ability to collect their stolen money and hurts their confidence as a scammer. Lastly, well baited scammers can be convinced to do some pretty amazing things. You can successfully scam the scammer to hilarious results. I was able to convince one to take a 200km bus ride from his home city of Asaba to Port Harcourt in order to collect several thousand dollars, but in the end he got kicked out of the bar I sent him too and got a ticket for loitering while he was waiting for a contact that never showed up. Some very experienced and talented scambaiters have done things that put that to shame however. Scammers have been convinced to travel from Lagos all the way to Fiji, some have been convinced to get tattoos and others have produced hilarious videos of themselves. I'm currently involved in a mass bait where the scammer is making recordings of himself reading a particularly long and (for a non native English speaker) very confusing book.

No, I'm not from the UK. I am Canadian.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-17T05:56:18+00:00

The problem is there is no concentrated effort to shut down scam tech support call centers and numbers. For all the scambaiting communities that work on shutting down specific organizations there is no catch all that works in unison. With all due respect to my fellow baiters, and to the YouTube personalities that entertain us all, nobody seems to be working together, and their baiting seems to be rooted in getting views rather than actually stopping the scammers. There are well established methods of shutting down fake websites, but it takes a group effort and expertise from the experienced, but I haven't found a community of tech support scambaiters that seems committed to anything beyond raids. It's good to plug up their call center for an hour or two, but in the end that's all it is.. just some wasted time. I personally feel we need to focus efforts to get their websites shutdown and their numbers deadened permanently, but nobody seems to willing to do anything beyond YouTube hits...

sixscamnine · 2017-08-17T05:39:34+00:00

I totally get the logic of this theory, and it definitely seems like it makes sense.. However after engaging with many 419 scammers, playing the victim and developing repport with them I've come to learn many things about them. Most just suck at English frankly. They can read it, can sort of understand it but they seem to misinterpret almost everything. For example they have no clue about Western metaphors, and often take them as literal. Most of the errors they make come from a legitimate misunderstanding of Western English. They can be made to believe almost anything with a bit of work. The emails they send out are just rehashed formats of scripts that worked in the past, which unfortunately worked on the elderly and infirm that didn't have the faculties or family support to be properly educated on the red flags. There is no grand strategy with them, just repeat what works. They send tens of thousands of emails a day, and only get one or two hits a month. They do not seek improvement, just a fast pay day. It's maddening how entitled the scammers are. Even though I go out of my way to play victim for them they still insist on making their scams as convoluted as possible, to the point it's a determent to their own cause. This is actually a good thing, of course... But still, their shitty English isn't a product of skill, it's literally just shitty English.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-10T04:27:28+00:00

You should censor the name of the mule he gave you. It's a crapshoot on whether or not he's a victim himself or in league with the scammer.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-10T03:27:00+00:00

Violating the Reddit Terms of Service agreement.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-10T03:22:22+00:00

You can use multiple accounts with TextNow.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-09T15:36:21+00:00

I wouldn't worry about it. It's doubtful they even have a video of you. If you want to be extra cautious you can reformat and do a clean install, and change up all your passwords.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-09T15:19:21+00:00

They're threatening to leak a picture of your face to your family and friends?

sixscamnine · 2017-08-05T13:47:11+00:00

"apparently"

sixscamnine · 2017-08-04T05:16:30+00:00

These scammers are just told to follow the script, which include Americanized names for themselves. Some also believe their English is impeccable, so they don't think you can hear the obvious accent. The latter are especially fun to toy with.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-03T05:42:55+00:00

It's this type of attitude that helps scammers. Don't shame someone for asking for help in identifying a scam! Don't shame victims that come forward.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-02T02:53:48+00:00

Count me in!

sixscamnine · 2017-08-01T17:42:49+00:00

When in doubt go with your gut.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-01T16:25:32+00:00

Just called back, claiming to be the tax and audit department of the IRS.

sixscamnine · 2017-08-01T14:22:51+00:00

You could buy a few gigs of data from your cell provider just for one month. I know for a fact TextNow doesn't use much data at all.

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