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scambaiting 

Scambaiting is the "De Facto" sport you can practice with a webmail account. Practiced, since there are thousands of 419 scammers out there, stealing money to honest people. The main goal of scambaiting is tomake a scammer waste its time, money (if he is in an internet cafe), and patience into a "victim" who will not fall, thus preventing the scammer on getting his hands on people who might fall for it. Consists on doing the following:
1. Obtaining a free webmail account, preferably one which masks or does not display your IP when obtaining headers, and setting it up under an alias, be it a punning name or a legendary character such as Jack Sparrow, Forrest Gump, Marty McFly, Bruce Banner, and the list goes on, use your imagination.
2. Scam letters come and go. You can obtain them by accident or by seeding guestbooks with another email account(not very recommended).
3. Take one of the e-mails obtained, and reply.
4. Make him suffer like G did with nonsense questions, arguing over the legality of the deal, and try to make him go off script (since most of the answers are scripted) with a load of resources, such as imagination and experience.
5. If the scammer keeps on it, at the end you can just let him know that he is a scammer and end the deal, or play dumb.
As a note, if you are going to practice it, NEVER give your real life information (such as bank accounts, home address, telephone, et al), and try to be as creative as possible. There are many sites which treat about this subject which are worth looking.
Mike: Dude, I received these 419 letter.
Ike: Well, pass the letter to me, I will reply the bugger and make him waste his time, before your ignorant aunt falls for it. Those are frauds, you know.
Mike: Is that scambaiting you say to do?
Ike: Yeah. Very fun if you have enough practice.
scambaiting by Ivlivus Caesar January 3, 2007

scarecasting 

Similar to weather forecasting, but either a news source (company or individual) twists the forecast of a severe storm into a worst case scenario. This usually occurs well before a storm forecast has been solidly determined.
Person 1: The weather forecast on the news is saying Hurricane Irma is the next Harvey, and it's going to hit Charleston, SC.

Person 2: Irma is still a week away from landfall. It sounds like they're scarecasting. Don't believe everything you hear.
scarecasting by YankeesIsTrash September 4, 2017

scareiciting 

when something or someone is exciting in a fearful way
ex 1: “I was on the roof earlier for the first time bro. It was quite scareiciting”

ex 2: “Did you hear about name on the news yesterday? He was speeding down the opposite side of the highway, it looked scareiciting”
scareiciting by wise_asshole September 19, 2021

shamebaiting

The act of stating or doing something in the hopes that it will bring shame or mockery from others, especially from friends or otherwise close companions.

Shamebaiting is a word that roots from the term ragebaiting, where ragebaiting is intended to bait one into anger, shamebaiting is intended to bait one into disappointment.

One can shamebait by attempting to get into a community specific hall of shame, and thus getting called out for doing so.
John is absolutely shamebaiting us dude, like come on, "I guess I deserve punishments", like really?
shamebaiting by real_darkwing April 5, 2026