indeed.

it's a pathetic excuse for a shield, i know it.

list of the day

things i'm bad at:

• responsibility
• humour
• knowing when to give up
  

things i'm good at:

• screwing up my life when i was so determined not to
  

dead parrots and dumb scammers

lately, i've been getting into scambaiting. it's basically the fine art of wasting as much of those email scammers' time as possible by sending hoax emails from fake people back to them, and stringing them along. i'm not very good at it yet...i'm just in the early phases of my first bait, and i'm not doing anything funny with it. i'm doing a straightforward bait, just kinda playing dumb and naive, "i'm soooooo sorry he died in the plane crash and i'll do anything i can to help get the money out!"

some people, some of the experienced scambaiters, or the just plain funny people, do things that are awesome, things i aspire to as a rookie scambaiter. one of the things that a lot of baiters try to do is get trophies from their baits. usually these come in the forms of pictures--photos of the scammers holding up signs that say really silly things on them. although, sometimes it gets better. i think shiver metimbers, one of the baiters on 419eater.com, just set the gold standard of scambaiting trophies.

he got the scammers to make a video.

of themselves.

acting out the dead parrot sketch.

from monty python.

that makes me so happy. it's just absurd. it's...419 scammers! doing the dead parrot sketch! with a fake dead duck! it's just inspired.