New Face... Not New To Fraud & 419 Scammers

[tony marone]

Hello! I am an old time scam baiter. I started doing email baiting about 4 years ago. I got bored of doing emails, as that took to much time and the results were not rewarding. I was looking to get 'trophy' pics from the scammers and had a tough time to achieve my goal at the time. I then found out 419 scammers are in many Yahoo chat rooms. So I downloaded Yahoo Messenger and just went wandering around in some of the chat rooms. It did not take long for a Nigerian scammer to find me. That was over 3 years ago and I've never been the same since.
Now I am into phone baiting Barristers or Nigerian Banker for millions of dollars. I find it amusing to bait them with the old "ESEM" (Exact Same EMail) routine. If you want to know more about ESEM or ASEM, you can find out more on any of the scam baiting sites FAQ's, or PM me.
But now I have been doing a bit of victim warnings on my own. I was recommended by Paul Brady to visit this site and see if we can work together. I know Paul several months and talk to him regularly on Skype, exchanging ideas, scammer IDs, old scams with a new twist or helping victims or potential victims of fraud.
Glad to be onboard and hope to help out whenever possible.

'Tony Marone
Brooklyn, NY

[FW Admin]

Hello Tony and welcome to FraudWatchers.

As I'm sure your aware, we have many comments and queries from a vast amount of both members and visitors to our site. Any additional expertise in answering those would be most grateful.

[Rob]

Hello Tony, feel free to have a look around, don't hesitate to ask questions!

Funny, lots of new faces atm.

[ThatGrrl]

Hi there Tony, and welcome! It's always nice to see more people around to help :)

[Sarah]

Hi Tony, and welcome to the board. Feel free to post as little or as much as you want to. :)

[tony marone]

Thank you all for the warm welcome here. :)
I have referred several victims and potential victims to this site and to www.internet-love-scams.org as well. I really hope they took the advice and came here to see what they can do about ID theft issues, eBay accounts hijacked, sweetheart scams, and the old next of kin money transfer scams. Some of the victims say they have been in contact with the scammer for up to 2 years, and have been sending money all that time. I almost felt bad breaking the news to him that he was scammed out of almost $70,000. Yes, 70 THOUSAND dollars and was still going with the scammers directions. He is very lucky not to be in jail for 'bank fraud' after trying to cash a few very fake checks. Then, when I contacted him, he was in the process of receiving a $100,000 money transfer to a new account he opened up just for this transfer. He was to close it and inform the bank and the authorities of what has been going on.
Well, I have lots more horror stories, but i dont know if this is the proper place to discuss it.
Again, glad to be onboard and to lend a hand when needed.

'tony

[Daneel]

Welcome :)

Probably not a suitable topic for public discussion, in most cases. But I think we all have a few horror stories as well:
http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5983

[Shamfien]

Hey Tony!
Good to see you on here finally...have a look around and grab a chair..Im sure youll be an asset ;)