Still… I’ll be impressed if this can be strung out much further. I mean, this is really at an impass right now- you’ve lied and told him that the WU money can be picked up, and it clearly isn’t. To keep this going more than a bit more, I think you’ll need to give him the illusion of progress, maybe by preparing another way to get the fake money to him. Honestly, mailing it could be worth it. How much does it cost to mail a letter to Nigeria? If it’s just one stamp, filling that with porn would be hysterical and economical.
I doubt that one scammer cares that much about others.
But it’s still likely he’s stringing you along. At the least, he’s putting in minimal attention at a remote possibility that it might pay off. That’s why the quality of the English gets worse and worse.
Scambaiting is old hat. Most of the scammers probably know about it, and it’s not even that amusing anymore. Even if he knew that you were posting all of this on some message board, he probably wouldn’t care.
The real question is: “Who is wasting whose time?” This thread has gone on for, what, five pages?
This is weird. Not related to the Dr Brunton/Sandra Dickson thing, but happening at the same time (and I’m not going to play this one for a long time, so it’s not worthy of its own thread…
I received this the other day:
So I replied, as usual, with:
And received in return:
To which I replied:
The attached file was the PDF containing** the hairy arse photo**.
I didn’t expect, therefore, to receive this:
Now, I’m sure this probably just means they didn’t even bother to open the file I sent them - but if so, that’s quite an interesting insight into their methods…
Being Dutch, I’m just a little bit miffed that these folks impersonate my very dear own Dutch Staatsloterij. :mad: I wonder if that means they have some strawman located in the Netherlands.
But I’m surprised at the method too. Wasn’t that “form” you were to fill out supposed to contain the very info the scammers are looking for?
I don’t think so - I played a while with one of these scammers before - giving them false contact info (that actually was the address and phone number of a police station in London) - I was thinking it would be an identity theft scam, but it turns out it’s just the old advance fee fraud - I think they ask for the contact details first, so that they can phone up the victim and lean on him/her to try to force it through, but only if things move too slowly by email.
Wait! Dr Brunton is back! - responding to my message (in post #211 up there) with:
A man of few words, to be sure.
Now, I’m certain he hardly believes me at all, but is just going through the motions on the very slim hope I am in earnest and it’s all been just bad luck (or maybe he’s just playing the game here). Anyway, it’s a chance to get him to look at one more offensive image, so let’s see what I can find…
These things are like franchises, I think, and they have willing participants across the globe - your original scammer probably bounces you around to other associates around the world.
