Questions for scambaiters?

When you email a scammer you can usually view all the previous replies below by scrolling down. Also, with the email service I use, you can choose to view all the emails sent from one particular address. I never usually remember the emails I sent a week ago.

I never talk to scammers so I'm not sure how to keep track of calls. I take notes and put each email into a separate folder. You probably could take notes of your conversations. I really go into real detail of my characters. They have a back story. Likes, dislikes etc and they are like real people. I keep all the information, of them, in a word document.

Everyone please feel free to ask questions in this thread to Scambaiters anything you wanna know I'm sure one of the great scambaiters here will answer,I've had my questions answered if I have anymore I'll post them

The 'Outlet Chop' was invented in 2011 or 12 by my old baiting friend in Sweden, Dr Mike.

If you have a landline that you answer and discover a scammer on the line, is it ok to waste their time, so long as you are not revealing your identity in any way and not returning the call if given a callback number either in talking to you or a voicemail message left?


Edited to Answer - JustCold

booniestomper

It is never wise to bait or "waste" time with a criminal that has your real-life information. Doing so takes a dangerous risk. Is your landline service in your or someone else's real name? I don't know of any company that provides that without ID anymore. We are never going to try and tell you what you can or cannot do in your life - your life is your business, but we will not allow the discussion of it here outside of general baiting safety.

I never engage with any scammers or potential scam calls that come into any of my real numbers/emails. Unless I am expecting a call from a known person I never answer calls from unknown numbers or ID withheld, or respond to texts. If it is important then the person calling me will leave a voice mail or send an email from a verifiable address. Not many people have my number, apart from those that need to have it for legit reasons anyway, and mostly I have then saved to my phone book and the calls are announced by Siri - bless her. All my baiting is via anon character capture accounts. I use PAYG sim cards and spare handsets if I need to create a new number or whatsapp account, but rarely do as most baiting I do is via email.

I haven't experienced this that much. In fact with a recent group of scammers I baited I had to work to persuade them to contact me on WhatsApp. If I don't want to use it then I tell them I am an old man and I don't use it because I am a computer illiterate, or even that I don't know what it is, then they don't usually ask again. Maybe they put in some work to get a WhatsApp number that makes them appear to be from the country they are claiming and want to use the extra credibility? Or maybe they don't speak English very well and want to use a format where less formal language and shorter messages would be more common.

They bait victims into Whatsapp, Telegram, etc. because it costs no money for them to use these messaging platforms. They don't have to pay a penny to call, text or video call their victims on them. Secondly it allows them to verify if the victim is genuine or not. Its very easy for them to video call an victim while hiding their camera and confirm that its an real person. Also the phone numbers they use to create accounts on these platforms can be fake or non existent.

They don't fear that their emails get shut down fast, actually its an bad thing that it closes. It does a bad thing for the 419 scam warning sites and they just take their mailing list with them to an new email address.

Regarding landline service, you want to avoid that. Smart and educated scammers can find out your real life identity easily by just looking your landline up.