If you would like comments regarding ongoing baits, please post them in the Main Scambaiting Forum instead. If you are looking for suggestions or help, please post under HELP, HINTS & TIPS
Leeting
Please do not leet names and ordinary words (including, for example, Western Union). When leeting "baiters' secrets" you will only need to change one letter in one of the words, for example Security $hield. Keep it as easy-as-possible to read!
It is preferable to post the initial email with details at ScamWarners with a link to it in your first post. To avoid Lad's searching the name they use or email address, you can omit his email address, and, if his name is distinctive, change his character's name to a more common one - like John or Ruth. Likewise, if your baiting character has a distinctive name and you don't want to risk it being Googled, then change it to Sarah or Peter or similar.
If the humor of your bait depends upon the funny name of your character but you want to hide your spelling of that name, instead of leeting it, change it slightly, making Ivor Stiffwun into Ivor Stiffwon or Ivor Hardwun.
Copying your emails into a text document and then selecting Find (or Search) and Replace will make this a much less tedious task!
Style
There is no fixed style of presentation that you are required to use. Aim for readability!
Here are some examples:
With quote boxes and commentary
With quote boxes, colours, and commentary
Plain, with colours
Plain, and partly created by voice recognition software
With a link to the published bait
The following may be helpful:
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[b]This text is bold[/b]
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[i]This text is italic[/i]
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[u]This text is underlined[/u]
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[quote]This text is in a quote box[/quote]
This text is in a quote box
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[color=blue]This text is blue[/color]
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[color=darkred]This text is dark red[/color]
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[color=indigo]This text is indigo[/color]
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[color=blue][u][i]You can, of course, combine them[/u][/i][/color]
Images
Please make sure that your images are no more than 600 pixels wide if you are posting them on this forum. You will need to host them first at IMGbb or Imgur or 4Shared or your choice of image hoster.
To post them here:
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[img]Your link here[/img]
eg:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/OzT1SxR.jpg[/img]
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/OzT1SxR.jpg)
Or you can add a link (also suitable for images over 600 pixels wide):
http://i.imgur.com/OzT1SxR.jpg
or:
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[url=http://i.imgur.com/OzT1SxR.jpg]Tattoo[/url]