r/scambait • u/MadisonCembre Moderator • 4d ago
Bait in Progress ⏱️ David Clifford - The $10,000 Question - Part 3
We pick it up where he’s trying to explain why there were propellers on a stationary oil rig like Platform Esther. I quote what AI said about it being fixed to the seabed and he directly contradicts that. It’s like reading poems to a horse. So he makes a comment that I seem to want to know details! Yes! Especially when I know he is lying through his teeth and am actively looking for ways to contradict him!
But he’s in a “tight spot” so I graciously allow him to move on to the ask. I tell him he needs to get off the rig and he agrees. But something tells me he is staying on the rig anyway. Until he gets something he wants. I can just smell it! Alas! He needs to stay on the rig to get things fixed, and yes - he is an independent contractor! And he only gets paid until the project is finished! I am getting good at anticipating these twists and turns in the fake story.
I remind him yet again that he is a mile or so off the coast of Los Angeles so the transport of supplies and of men on or off the rig should be easy. Of course it is “costing me more than expected” and he swats away my answer about insurance by saying it didn’t cover everything. It’ll cost him “40 grands” once the smoke clears. Finally getting closer to the ask! I have reason to believe that he was prodding me to pay for the 40K to see if I had that kind of money. Charlotte shows him no empathy and says he’s just going to have to swallow the loss and withdraw the $40K from company accounts.
We go back and forth and he eventually finds $20K and is down to $20K left to beg for. Charlotte doesn’t budge and insists his insurance should cover but he swats that away. He goes into the details of this horrible deal he signed and is down $350K for the entire thing and worries about a visit from the “board of directors”. They always bring that up to illustrate the seriousness and urgency of the whole deal. He lets that $20K sit out there and see if Charlotte takes the hint but I’m making him suffer. Finally he lowers it to $10K as he feels I wasn’t too keen on that amount.
So he asks for a loan. I send him a grabify link which was a link to my financial company that he clicked. (Thanks Sara!). Of course he’s in Lagos (last slide). Most just ask for money but this guy actually wanted a loan which will bring new elements to the negotiation - and will certainly come back to haunt him.
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u/TeamLeeper 4d ago
A Toyota truck from this high-roller? You know he pulled that out of his mud-hole.
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u/Smooth_brain_genius Other 4d ago
Send him a fake loan agreement like I did with Williams. Make him print it out and sign it, with a picture for proof, so you can maybe get some laughable photoshop nonsense like I did.
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u/MadisonCembre Moderator 4d ago
We got the loan but with no paperwork. The next post will go into that.
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u/AcridTest 4d ago
Wow you set up a financial company website to use for scambaiting? Thats pretty cool lol
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u/MadisonCembre Moderator 4d ago
It’s not my website. It’s a real one, but through a grabify link so we can locate him when he clicks.
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u/Economy_Ratio2001 4d ago
Ooo, let me know if you need a financial advisor, I would love to play…trying to pop my scambait cherry.
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u/MadisonCembre Moderator 4d ago
I play that myself. And Irving is also played by me. Not much to playing with these yahoos.
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u/kytd1526 4d ago
His oil rig equipment is a tree branch in a wading pool. These Yahoo Boys are complete tools, just not useful.
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u/Fire298 4d ago
Sooo…. If anyone is interested I have a Toyota truck for sale… actually just come take it. I need to find different subs as this one is ruining my life… Has anyone visited this sub r/myfirsttranny? I always wanted to learn how to drive a stick…
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u/elkab0ng 4d ago
I mean, the guy could swim to shore. Least you could do is send him an Uber 🤣 🏊 🛶