Scambaiter – Jesus is watching you Peter

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This one started when I got an a message from a gentlemen claiming to be “manage of ghana gold miner compery of ghana”.

Scambaiter – OMG they killed Kenny!

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Susan Linda aka beautylove2g5 is another one of my yahoo friends from Accra , Ghana. She has been boring me for a while.

Scambaiter – my father is late pa timson adedokun

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Bimpe was another scammer who found me through tagworld. Her profile shows she was justing looking for someone to ‘rake care’ of her.

Scambaiter – Butterbabys Bullshit

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I am happy to present to you another chat log with a scammer. Our victim this week, Butterbaby pretended to be a female American Car dealer but was really a fat Nigerian bloke called ‘Prince’ Joe Eboh.

Scambaiter – Seriously Annoying Lover 84

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serious_lover84 was one the first people to contact my via my tagworld profile. At this point is is claiming she loved me and asking for little presents like 100 dollars or 2500 dollars for a plane ticket.

Scambaiter – I love you, please help me transfer some money.

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It’s amazing what happens when you have your Yahoo Messenger details listed at Tagword, You can fall in love in an hour just to have some evil robots spoil it all.

Scambaiter – Fun with bots – CAPS LOCK

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Here’s another cross dressing bot, this time dannygarret was trying to convince me it was called Rebecca. I’ve got to hand it to this bot, it didn’t even get flustered with CAPS LOCK, CRUISE CONTROL FOR THE COOL.

Scambaiter – Fun with bots – I’m on Fire.

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A big problem with the believability of these bots is that people will always find it difficult to believe a user with the ID rupertoneill64 is really called Alexis.  Also these bots refuse to help people when they are obviously in serious trouble.

Scambaiter – Fun with Bots – brb

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As I discussed in the last Scambaiter Bot post, these Bots aren’t very convincing. This bot was exceptionally stupid, because in the first instant message it sent was so illogical it would convince even the most inexperienced user that it was a Bot.

Scambaiter – Fun with Bots – Marissa explains it all

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Scams come in all shapes and sizes, but they are usually ridiculously poor. The latest type of scam is a series of rather pathetic bots which infest Yahoo Messenger. These bots pretend to be a sexy young lady who wants to meet you, just before giving the a link to some awful website. If you click [...]

Scambaiter – Bimpe – The Return

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Bimpe was a scammer I’d spoke to before, but said she didn’t love me anymore after a disagreement over an Elephant. This time she had some to forgotten all about that.

Scambaiter – talkmebabe – Talk to Me

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talkmebabe (we could only assume they meant to pick the user name talktomebabe) is another person who randomly contacted me via Yahoo Messenger, but instead of wanting to give me love this time I was going to be offered a brilliant part time job.

Scambaiter – Joyce Kuzagbe – Thick as pigshit.

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Joyce Kuzagbe was a random who just started talking to me via Yahoo Messenger one day. Unfortunately she wasn’t too bright.

Scambaiter – Fun with Bots – Don’t remember?

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I’ve just found this Conversation with fredricwagner32 in my archives. This is my first encounter with one of these bots, and it has all the classic hallmarks; Male ID but a female name and an urge to plug some awful dating site.

Scambaiter – fiona2f2 – Awesomio

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Fiona2f2 claimed to be a lady called Fiona Kane, who I chatted to a number of times. Most of those chats consisted of her demanding that I answer he two seconds after she finished typing and her generally being stupid (boring stupid, and not the good stupid which is funny stupid).