Scambaiting in a nutshell
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.
I have a couple of baits published.
That gives you more idea of what it really involves. The first one involves a church that I created, Mariah Carey, facepainting and Glitter. The lad sent me some fabulous pics, it’s worth having a look at. The second one went on for about six months, and involved such characters as Andrew G and Guy Sebastian from Australian Idol, and also Usher. The photos I was sending of my character were mostly of Delta Goodrem. I’ve had the most fun I’ve ever had baiting It’s a laugh festival.
If you want to give it a try yourself, scambaits has a mentor program in their forums, so you can make sure to bait safely which is really important.
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I run my own website (www.scamtypes.com) that details scams and fraud on the internet and just recently came across the concept of scambaiting through that.
Some of the reverse scams people have pulled, and the pictures they’ve got, are hilarious. I’ve got to try and get some pics for my site now!
I’m going to enjoy reading your scambaits - they look very detailed. Keep up the baiting, Lee.
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