Step 1 - Your Persona

Although it's quite possible to bait without creating a full background for your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account, the more devoted baiters will find that it's a much more fullfilling experience to do so before hand. By deciding on information about your character (referred to as a "persona") before you begin baiting, you not only have a greatly reduced chance of giving conflicting information to someone (well, by accident that is), but it also allows you to give responses to commonly asked questions ("a/s/l," anyone?) right away, making your baiting more convincing. Remember, you want to draw the victim in enough so that when you finally comment on your cock/real age/etc. it'll catch them totally off guard, resulting in such quality replies as "What!? You mean *my* cock, right?" and "r u a girl?".

What do you need to get answers for? All the common things about someone that might come up. Where do you live? How do you interact with others (online or not)? What things do you like and dislike?

Having done the usual 12-year-old-girl-who-turns-out-to-have-a-dick thing for some time now, I finally decided to 'expand my horizons.' This persona is a young (14) yet post-pubescent goth chick named Veronica Miller from Seattle, Washington. She's into black and Sisters Of Mercy, and after convincing pederasses that she's a lonely, depressed girl who will do anything for love she really likes to pull out the strap-on and fuck them in the ass until they pass out, yelling and screaming the whole time about what worthless love-slaves  they are. And if that fails, I can always go back to the ol' cock-in-the-ass method of getting pedos to block me.

Step 2 - Your Screen Name

First, decide what message you want to present to your baitees before they even IM you, and think of a screen name (maximum of 16 characters) that will give that impression. The words sex, dick, cunt, cock, and variations of that are always good to include, as pedos and other sexually frustrated individuals will more quickly flock to someone named IWantToSuckYourDick than IAmAFedYouFuckingPedophile. On the other hand, if you're trying to present yourself as an innocent little girl who happens to like having netsex, something like Jenny5482 might be more appropriate.

With a name in mind, go to www.aol.com/aim and try to activate it. Unless your name is already spelled wierd, or contains out of place numbers, odds are you won't get it on the first try. Just keep fucking with the spelling until it works.

Seeing as I'm going with the whole goth thing, I decided to go with something along the lines of "girl in black." After contemplating a few different versions of that, I decided to go with a variation of "Sexy Little Girl In Black," so I could get the word 'sex' into my name as well as attracting more pederasses by pointing out the fact that I'm a little girl. Lucky for me, it was available, keeping me from having to think anymore (thinking sucks)

Once you've done this, follow the instructions for verifying your screen name via email, downloading and installing AIM, setting up your account and shit. If you've already got AIM installed, just verify the new name and set it up on AIM. I'm not walking you through this, so all you pussy whiners can go fuck yourselves.

Step 2 - Your Profile

Now that your account is active, you've got to set the bait by filling out your profile. Select "My Profile" from the File menu, and OK the stupid warning window that pops up. Next, check the box labeled "Allow people to search for me," then start filling out all your information. Uncheck the stupid "Allow only AOL Instant Messenger blah blah blah" box as well.

Once you've gotten the first screen filled out to your liking, click the Next button. You obviously want to be available for chat, so check the fucking button already. Choose your Interests, not only so they fit your persona, but also to get the most hits. The Communities/Teens, Meeting People Online/Romance, Meeting People Online/Chat, and Family Issues/(anything) Interests are all good 'default' choices, as they tend to attract a good number of morons. Chosing a religion Interest is another nice choice, even if you're not trying for religious baiting. Do whatever you think is best for your 'target audience'.

Click the Next button once again, and fill out the More Info section. Put pretty much anything you want in here, just to make your persona a little more convincing. Saying you like sex or getting dick in the ear or something is always good, too.

I already knew the basic info I was going to put down, although the interests were totally up in the air. I think the ones I chose are pretty appropriate, and might even get me a religious bait sometime.

You probably want to sign off of your account once this step is finished, as you're going to start attracting sickos and lowlifes like shit attracts flies.

Step 3 - Your Picture

Despite the fact that it's just as easy (if not easier) to steal someone else's picture as it is to say that you're a 12 year old girl, pedophiles still have a tendancy to ask you for a pic. It's probably more for visual aid while they're jerking off, but who cares - the fact still remains that you're going to want to get a picture to pass off as your persona.

If you don't already have a particular picture (or site to get one from) in mind, the altavista.com image/video/audio search engine is a good place to start. It's really good for this sort of thing - searching for "12 year old egyptian girl" (minus the quotes) got me Hooked On Cock's picture as the first result. Pretty good, eh?

Once you've got a picture in hand (i.e. you've saved it locally), you'll need to upload it to one of those shitty free webhosting sites out there. We here at Baiting.org use Angelfire, as you can link direct to pictures there without getting a stupid advertisement pop-up or any "cannot link direct" errors. Go create an account using either your new AIM screen name, or something pretty ubiquitous that won't instantly look out of place. Then again, we all use the /ca4/aimgirl/ login, and no one ever questions it, so maybe I'm overestimating the intelligence of pedophiles. Probably. Anyway, upload your picture to that account, remember the link, and that's that.

The idea for my gothchick persona originally came from some stupid page I stumbled upon following links late one night, so I knew exactly where to go grab my pic from. I got it, uploaded it to the aimgirl account, and all was well in the world.

Step 4 - Your Email Account

Although it's not necessary, setting up a fake email account for your persona is a good way to get reluctant baitees to send you pictures, addresses, phone numbers, etcetera, that they would otherwise be unwilling to give to you. We suggest NetAddress as they do not verify any of your user information, allowing you to basically set up an untraceable account (that doesn't really matter in this instance, although it's nice to know). Another.com is, well, another free email site, which I guess is better than NetAddress (thanks, Tim). Yet again the email name really doesn't matter as long as it somewhat makes sense; if you can't get an address that's the same as your AIM name, no biggie.

Thanks to the fact that my persona's screen name was like 16 characters long, NetAddress had no problem giving me the same email address. Woo!

Step 5 - READ THE GODDAMNED BAITING FAQ

Just to make sure you don't make any stupid fucking beginner mistakes, head on over to the FAQ and read it - I didn't waste my time writing it up for nothing. There are some very important things in there that you should know before you begin baiting, SO READ IT.

Step 6 - Let the Baiting Commence!

That's it! You're done! Go home!

Okay, fine...well, the next step should be pretty obvious to you, so I'm really not going to go into any detail about it. Simply sign on to AIM using your new baiting persona, and wait for the great "Blah has sent you an IM, do you accept?" grey message box to pop up on your screen. If you're reading this, I'm going to presume that you've already read a lot of baiting logs, so you should have a pretty good idea how to do it. Getting good logs takes a lot of practice and a really sick mind, so don't expect to be good at it right away. Shit, I'm still not any good at baiting.

Some things to keep in mind while baiting:

• Repetetiveness gets boring, no matter what you're doing. Try to think of new things to "do" with your victims.
• If you can't think of something new to do, there's always the old stand-by; Sodomy. There's something intrinsically funny about a little girl whipping out a cock and sodomizing someone with it. Hmmm...it's really more disturbing than funny if you look at it that way, now that I think about it, but oh well. The point still stands that it can make for a funny log.
• Don't let on that you're not serious about this! Nothing ruins a log as well as when it ends with you saying "hahaha now I get to show all my friends this, you fucking pedophile." It's funny occasionally, but it gets older than shit, quick. Remember; If you do this, there's almost no chance that they'll ever come back for seconds.
• If you're getting flooded with IMs, just don't accept the incoming messages you don't have time for. Odds are they'll add you to their buddy list and IM you later, so you're not wasting any potential source of entertainment by telling them to fuck themselves and leave you alone. On the other hand, some good logs start that way...
• Once you've got enough people going to tide you over for awhile, go and edit your preferences, and uncheck the "allow me to be searchable" buttons for your Interests and Personal Info. That'll cut down the number of incoming messages quite a bit.

That's all I can think of right now, I'll add more if I think of 'em later. Now get out there and start baiting, dammit!

-Dirk