r/scambait

I suffered through another 8 screens worth of boring ridiculous fantasy love bombing, protesting all the while. I've spared you all that, and we return to something a bit more fun. Which always involves consulting with u/MadisonCembre and getting her hilarious ideas. Plus Queen u/delzbr on standby for her great fake receipts! As I piece together a way to perform a bitcoin transfer, we decide that Diane could be involved, along with a Jussie Smollet experience of our own. It is Chicago, after all, and who doesn't eat Subways on the sidewalk at 2AM there? Meanwhile, it's always amazing that these guys, with such limited banking experiences themselves, always think that even old fart Americans have online accounts. I mean, if we learned nothing in our long lives, we know that you go into the local branch and make a day of it! They know your name there, and you can chat them up while the angry line grows behind you. They will even help you order more checks 🤣. Tommy is in full on Squirm mode and it's clear they are "on his neck" to figure out why the money hasn't arrived yet. He easily gets a bitcoin wallet and the Adventure begins! NO SANDWICHES WERE INJURED IN THE MAKING OF THIS BAIT

He's still a Snooze Fest, but there really is no way to make them interesting while they wait for the transfer. At least he's busy giving presentations about the anticipated new "engine," which a simple googling assured me is NOT part of a BOP, which is essentially a stacked set of multiple valves. Meanwhile, you can feel the mounting pressure from his superiors, as he is mostly focused on the money arrival and wants updates. In spite of the tax filing deadline (which brings back nasty memories of the all-nighters of my first career, before computers existed. We had pencils, forms, huge adding machines and coffee tankers 🤪). They always use feeble love bombing to fill in the wait, and I always respond with total disdain. It interests me that at this phase, they are feeling rich while anticipating their share, and will add in buying you things (with your own money😯). The fantasies are real! I throw in some drugstore shopping/gift buying chum, but he doesn't bite. "What card?" was the best he could do. Hang in, things get more interesting in the next one. The "post-transfer lull" is almost over, and bitcoin is coming next!

I loved being annoying in this discussion.

Featuring my husband 😁

This was from a while back, one of my early baits on my fake Facebook. I did my usual, dropped a bunch of references to movies and shows Tom's been in into the conversation because it amuses me. They never notice.

Unfortunately, I get quite a few of these Snapchat requests everyday and figured out how to break it!

Oops, forgot to post this yesterday.

No worries, there's an IP grab and a nice Chase transfer at the end, courtesy of our Queen u/delzbr. Plus, mass deletions of boring yapping occurred (like on government documents released to the public). But I always start attacking when they think the transfer is done, since THEIR script seems to tell them to be attentive, feign interest, and love bomb during this period. I guess it's so you won't cancel the transfer somehow, and based on their "success," to also groom you for even more asks. Still, they never make any attempt at genuine conversation, and when forced, seem to always bring up skydiving and bucket lists 🙄. At least I got 3 loads of laundry done during this, and learned that I was supposed to be "packing" it which apparently means the whole process. Reminds me of years at the laundomats though. That did feel like a trip to Timbuktu.

This is another one where they are too misogynistic and disrespectful to women and it just goes down in flames until we block and report him.

So he finally sends a photograph (!!!) of an "invoice" sitting on an envelope, near a rental agreement form, all so casual. He must think that makes it seem more legit. Like it just arrived in the mail! It's pretty piss poor and it seems that China doesn't bother with Yuan anymore so no conversions needed. I guess they aren't showing the $10k his attorney paid already. I then set up many roadblocks as I put him through demands to get me a friggin printable PDF. Just cuz I feel like it. I like to imagine his anger as he asks for more help, and has no idea what Adobe is. I finally tell him I'll call the company to get it. After I've put him through all that, I start bitching about the difficulties in sending transfers to China, in the hopes of getting an American bank account. Which wasn't that hard, but unfortunately, it's at Chase and they don't take reports. It's in the name of a Virginia non-registered "company," and the address is just an apartment, so I start demanding the business owner's name for research. Later he gives it to me, and I find a his Facebook page. Nothing else anywhere. In the end, I finally tell him the transfer is on the way, and his relief is palpable. I so wanted to fit Irving into this, but tbh, my brain was still fried by his phone call, and I couldn't find my spot. You get a "feel" for when, and it just wasn't happening for me. Although, I'm at the one month mark with him and still trying today. Meanwhile, Madison has her own plans for him once I'm done, so it will hopefully happen one way or another!

Disclaimer: This in no way reflects how I actually feel about Sir Paul McCartney or the Beatles. I was completely making stuff up, purposely getting ages and timelines wrong, etc 😉

I was going to leave it at arguing about donating to charity until I had a literal shower thought about comparing net worths (my character’s not wealthy by any stretch) and having him donate the same percentage to my preferred charities. He did actually try calling after he mentioned it but I declined the call. I was hoping to get a fake contract and eventually a bank account but he’s gone silent for now. We’ll see if he comes back. These two parts are just in the span of yesterday and this morning.

He sent a message in Norwegian, and the wording was fine, but I had to make him switch to English for you guys. This time I’m considering warming up a bit, but it’s hard, since he’s constantly annoying me.

I've deleted a bit, but tried to prevent choppiness (as China Guy would call it?). Here we continue the arduous task of obtaining an invoice, which is of course my fetish for documents of any type. He wants to ignore it, but I hold fast, in spite of aggressive shouty caps. He also sends me an account, which has the legit name and address of a real Chinese company. I looked them up and they are a large manufacturer of tires and conveyor belts. I can only assume that someone else was able to open an account at that small local Chinese bank, while using their name. Hey, it's China. Who knows. Meanwhile, the BOP becomes a "fucking machine" so we don't need to drink so much anymore! He resorts to love bombing as a solution but it just doesn't work. Still gonna need that Invoice!

You asked for it, so here is the full story. I got taken aback by the solicitation for Dick pics, and kind of lost it after that. it devolved into some pretty raunchy stuff and I'm not good at that part. I'll try to do better next time 🤣