About
Who Is Snoskred?
Snoskred is a 30-something woman who currently lives on the South Coast of New South Wales.
What Does The Word Snoskred Mean?
Snoskred = Avalanche in Norwegian. It is quite the unique name. Tip to bloggers just starting out - choose a name nobody else is using - then people will always know it is you!
Where Did Snoskred Come From?
Snoskred was born in South Australia. For the first 20 years of her life she lived with her parents. She then moved into a share house where she was the only girl - vs 4 boys! Consequently she began to feel love towards a clean kitchen and bathroom, and develop a phobia for germs which still haunts her today.
Where Is Snoskred Now?
Snoskred lives on the South Coast of New South Wales - approximately 3 hours drive from Sydney and 3 hours drive from Canberra. Of course in her Ford XR5 Turbo, it takes a bit less time than that. 
What time is it where Snoskred is?
What Does Snoskred Do For A Crust?
Currently Snoskred does blog hosting for fellow bloggers, runs a tourism related small business from home and occasionally a bit of part time consulting work.
Who Does Snoskred Live With?
Snoskred lives with her partner, known to the blog world as The Other Half. He is male, mid-thirties, and devastatingly handsome. At least Snoskred thinks so. Perhaps it is best not to tell her any different. Snoskred also lives with the Big Kitty and the Little Kitty.
Is Snoskred Her Real Name?
No. Snoskred believes it is unwise to give out your real information on the internet at the best of times, but when you are a scambaiter it can be even more dangerous.
Snoskred uses this alias in order to protect herself - should you be doing the same? The answer is more than likely yes. The internet is a strange place and there are some “stalker” types out there. Contact Snoskred if you want more information on how to protect yourself online.
When asked to give a first and last name, she always uses Snoskred Avalanche. It is very obvious to people that is a fake name, Snoskred does not hide the fact that it is a fake name, and if people ask why she is happy to explain it.
Why Doesn’t Snoskred Use Her Real Name?
The short explanation goes something like “I baited the Nigerian scammers, and they would love to know who I really am - they might end up on my doorstep”.
The longer explanation - too many details for most people! - is that three Nigerian scammers spent time in a South African jail cell, because of a sting that Snoskred was a part of. Snoskred had one Nigerian scammer arrested by the secret service in New York - he was deported from the US. Snoskred was also a part of a group who assisted the South African police in investigations including kidnapping of scam victims. And, Snoskred got some Nigerian Scammers to paint their faces, with butterflies. And a few other things, too..
Snoskred has collected over 5 million US dollars in fake cheques from the scammers. Generally in law enforcement circles it is believed that it costs the scammers 10% of the dollar value on the cheque - they have to pay that to the people who counterfeit the cheques. If that is true, I have personally cost them over half a million dollars.
So What Is Her Real Name?
Snoskred isn’t going to tell you that online. If you build a relationship with her and get to meet her someday, that is when you’d find out her real name.
What Is A Scambaiter?
There’s some posts about scambaiting on the blog, the best one to answer this question would be Scambaiting In A Nutshell.
Why does Snoskred refer to herself in the third person?
I am the number one search result for Snoskred. How I got there is partly because of referring to myself in the third person. It is a useful “white hat” (ie not illegal or dodgy) way to get your blog higher up in the ranking for your name. For more info see this post.
Where Else Can I Find Snoskred?
Snoskred’s Scambaits and scambaiting audio files can be seen via the below links - be warned some of them include swear words and inappropriate images for a workplace. They are generally not appropriate for people under the age of 18.
- Tyr@ Vs Alf Olds
- The Lad Formerly Known As
- Holy Church Of The Sacred Butterfly
- Quincy Almost Naked (Not Work Safe)
- Fake Checks from Scammers
Snoskred has a website with her scambaiting audio collection - so you can hear her voice but be warned, she likes to swear at the scammers!
Snoskred is an administrator on The Mudflats Forums - you can usually find her online there.
Snoskred also has a set of online forums though these don’t get used too much these days. You can feel free to visit and join as a member, and who knows, maybe you can be the catalyst for a rebirth of posting in the forums!
Snoskred also has photographs online at Flickr and you can view them here
Snoskred occasionally posts on the Whirlpool forums as TarynK - a name she used to use when warning scam victims. She now uses a male name for warning scam victims by email. She still uses the Taryn name when warning by phone and this was inspired by a work colleague who was named Taryn and used to spell her name out to customers with great patience. So when I use the name it is a reminder to be patient.
Snoskred Skype
What Is The Weather Like Near Snoskred?
(note this is not where Snoskred lives for safety reasons)
What Books Does Snoskred Own?
Here is a small selection of Snoskred’s Books. You can see all her books by clicking here.
How Often Does Snoskred Check Her Email?
Generally 4 times a day if she is at home. Sometimes she has her email program open while on the computer and you may get a faster response, but that little envelope popping up can be distracting.
How Many Email Accounts Does Snoskred Have?
Well over 50 - scambaiters get a lot of email - more info on scambaiting further down the page. She uses Thunderbird with POP3 in order to collect them all at once.
How Often Does Snoskred Reply To Comments?
Snoskred used to reply to comments all the time, but these days finds herself struggling to get everything done. She does reply to contact forms so if you want a response that may be the better way to get in touch.
What Programs Does Snoskred Use Daily?
Snoskred uses Mozilla Firefox to surf the internet, Mozilla Thunderbird to read email, Skype to keep in touch with friends online, Winamp to play music, PhotoImpact and Gimp for Windows to edit photographs, Audacity for audio editing, Editpad Lite for text file editing, OpenOffice for all word processing, spreadsheets and creating PDF files and finally NVU for creating webpages. You may be interested in this blog post by Snoskred - The Best Free Stuff On The Web
Snoskred Favourites -
Favourite Book - Pride and Prejudice
Favourite TV Shows - The West Wing. Dexter, Project Runway, Top Chef
Favourite Movie - William Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet
Favourite Food - Pizza
My Question Isn’t Answered Here.
Contact Snoskred via the Contact Form and ask it, chances are she will add it to the about page. You can also ask by putting a comment on this page.
