By Glen on Jan 5, 2009 in Article, Scambaiter | 0 Comments
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.
By Glen on Dec 29, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 1 Comment
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 [...]
By Glen on Dec 22, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 1 Comment
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.
By Glen on Dec 8, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 0 Comments
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.
By Glen on Nov 24, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 1 Comment
Joyce Kuzagbe was a random who just started talking to me via Yahoo Messenger one day. Unfortunately she wasn’t too bright.
By Glen on Nov 17, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 0 Comments
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.
By Glen on Nov 5, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 0 Comments
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).
By Glen on Oct 27, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 4 Comments
I came accross Lola Benson on Face-Pic (it says a lot for Face-Pic that her profile is still on there six month later) after she sent me the following message
Hello how are u doing today i am so happyu to hear from u well i will like to talk to u through yahoo IM on abuchi_lol1@yahoo.com
So we [...]
By Bill on Oct 20, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 9 Comments
Hello we are back again with another Scambaiter. This one is just a quickie, and involved a Gentleman called Peter Smith replying to advertisment for a room for rent
Hi, I am highly interested in making payment for the room you advertised for rent. I want to make the payment on behalf of my Daughter who intends to be [...]
By Bill on Oct 14, 2008 in Article, Scambaiter | 1 Comment
Hello all, it’s been a long while since we had a good Scambaiter. So here we go again, this time with someone calling themselves ‘Miranda Lawrence’ who wants to buy a car.
Good Evening,
Thanks for your quick response and am also excited to hear from you the car is still available for sale and thanks for the information you just gave about the car and am quite delighted to hear from you the car is still in great conditions .