Post by littlekitty on Jan 30, 2022 18:39:55 GMT
Hey guys I'm not sure where best to put this story so I'll put it here under General Discussion, if admin find that it's best somewhere else please feel free to move it.
I have once sent a scammer on a wild goose chase - I'm not a scambaiter but had a few opportunities and, given that I've fallen victim to a particularly nasty scam (more elaborate than 419 or romance scams) that resulted in life changing consequences for me, I'm of course always happy when a scammer gets their time wasted.
So, this scammer contacted me from Egypt and pretended to be so in love with me, and then it was ever such a typical thing - brother is sick, needs a heart operation, needs money, blah blah blah.
Now - I am originally from Egypt (lived most of my life in the UK though) and know the system there!!! So initially I challenged the scammer and told him, basic medical care is free in Egypt, and there is a world class heart clinic in Aswan that provides free medical care for Egyptians. Scammer: "my brother doesn't want to go to Aswan" etc. So I thought, right, I'll have you, mate!
At first I pretended to agree to marry him and to come to Egypt with lots of money for his brother's treatment. I played my role so well, I told him in all detail how I was "selling all my possessions", "resigning from my job" and all.
I then told him that I was doing other things as well to make more money for his brother, so for example I said I was going to this church and they were doing fundraising events to make money for the brother etc (at the time I was really going to this religious place and that gave me the idea).
Finally I was "on my way" to Egypt - needless to say, something happened on the way and I "missed the plane". I could have made him stand forever at the airport waiting for me, and I considered that, but I wasn't finished with him yet.
Next, I "agreed" to send him a large sum of money, I think it was over £700 (British Pounds, not Egyptian Pounds) - a massive amount of money in Egypt. Via our favorite, Western Union, of course. In the meantime I went to my local Western Union office and asked how a transfer works and explained that I'm playing a hoax on a scammer (that was before Scambait Central and other scambaiting channels came about so I didn't know how it all works). I then gave the scammer a fake MTCN. Off he trundles to the WU office - now, he was from this village near Luxor, and my home town is Luxor, so I know it would have taken him a good 2 hours to get there and back (forget about efficient public transport in Egypt, lol). Back he comes - he had gotten laughed out the office.
I didn't want to let him go just yet so I said, oh they must have given me the wrong number, I'll go back and see what happened there.
Another fake MTCN it was of course - after another wild goose chase of easily 2 hours, message comes "there is something wrong here" ... I only thought, yeah I bet there is, mate, I bet there is something wrong there!
And with this, I blocked him.
His own fault - he sure was particularly stupid, trying to scam a fellow Egyptian (it's not like scams are something unusual in Egypt so everybody knows that sob stories, at least when told to strangers, are usually fake) - and trying to tell me that he needed money for medical treatment when medical care is free (possibly only for poor people, not sure on that, but free anyway as it's government funded)!
I had a lot of fun with that one - I actually missed the fun after it ended, lol... he had the cheek to contact me later from his real social media account but I blocked that too.
But I leave the scambaiting to you guys who know what you are doing, I don't have the equipment or the knowledge to fully protect my personal details so I prefer to listen in to Mr Pricky and the team baiting.
I have once sent a scammer on a wild goose chase - I'm not a scambaiter but had a few opportunities and, given that I've fallen victim to a particularly nasty scam (more elaborate than 419 or romance scams) that resulted in life changing consequences for me, I'm of course always happy when a scammer gets their time wasted.
So, this scammer contacted me from Egypt and pretended to be so in love with me, and then it was ever such a typical thing - brother is sick, needs a heart operation, needs money, blah blah blah.
Now - I am originally from Egypt (lived most of my life in the UK though) and know the system there!!! So initially I challenged the scammer and told him, basic medical care is free in Egypt, and there is a world class heart clinic in Aswan that provides free medical care for Egyptians. Scammer: "my brother doesn't want to go to Aswan" etc. So I thought, right, I'll have you, mate!
At first I pretended to agree to marry him and to come to Egypt with lots of money for his brother's treatment. I played my role so well, I told him in all detail how I was "selling all my possessions", "resigning from my job" and all.
I then told him that I was doing other things as well to make more money for his brother, so for example I said I was going to this church and they were doing fundraising events to make money for the brother etc (at the time I was really going to this religious place and that gave me the idea).
Finally I was "on my way" to Egypt - needless to say, something happened on the way and I "missed the plane". I could have made him stand forever at the airport waiting for me, and I considered that, but I wasn't finished with him yet.
Next, I "agreed" to send him a large sum of money, I think it was over £700 (British Pounds, not Egyptian Pounds) - a massive amount of money in Egypt. Via our favorite, Western Union, of course. In the meantime I went to my local Western Union office and asked how a transfer works and explained that I'm playing a hoax on a scammer (that was before Scambait Central and other scambaiting channels came about so I didn't know how it all works). I then gave the scammer a fake MTCN. Off he trundles to the WU office - now, he was from this village near Luxor, and my home town is Luxor, so I know it would have taken him a good 2 hours to get there and back (forget about efficient public transport in Egypt, lol). Back he comes - he had gotten laughed out the office.
I didn't want to let him go just yet so I said, oh they must have given me the wrong number, I'll go back and see what happened there.
Another fake MTCN it was of course - after another wild goose chase of easily 2 hours, message comes "there is something wrong here" ... I only thought, yeah I bet there is, mate, I bet there is something wrong there!
And with this, I blocked him.
His own fault - he sure was particularly stupid, trying to scam a fellow Egyptian (it's not like scams are something unusual in Egypt so everybody knows that sob stories, at least when told to strangers, are usually fake) - and trying to tell me that he needed money for medical treatment when medical care is free (possibly only for poor people, not sure on that, but free anyway as it's government funded)!
I had a lot of fun with that one - I actually missed the fun after it ended, lol... he had the cheek to contact me later from his real social media account but I blocked that too.
But I leave the scambaiting to you guys who know what you are doing, I don't have the equipment or the knowledge to fully protect my personal details so I prefer to listen in to Mr Pricky and the team baiting.
