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"You are correct it would not be a good idea to be in my bad books"- Big Al

 

Big Al poses in front of his house. This pic was sent to various women he fancied.
Big Al is banned at www.419eater.com, the very first scam baiting site that he joined.

"Bigal" (aka Big Al or BiGal) is the pseudonym of a 65 year old man who lives in Brisbane, Ausfailia. His claim to infamy comes from having been banned from a forum devoted to the discussion of scam baiting back in 2006, and pathetically trying to make a large noise on the internet about it since then. Like the ancient mariner, he engages anyone he meets online and relates his tale of woe, even when the audience makes active efforts to get away. He accuses random people on the internet of being responsible for his banning. He says he will expose the evil eater moderators for their evil ways of stealing, paedophilia or worse, and has been on the verge of sending everyone to jail for the past ten years. He is the Grace Saunders of the scambaiting world.

Big Al's claim to fame, described by an admin at a site he was banned from

Scambaiting is the art of scamming scammers out of their sanity by pretending to be a gullible victim, while tricking them into posing for silly pictures and travelling halfway around the world searching for imaginary money.

There are many communities dedicated to practitioners of this art, that tends to attract some very colourful individuals. On the one hand you have the usual batch of basement dwellers, internet humanitarians, trolls and faggots. On the other hand, you also get some people with hugely inflated egos and the occasional genuinely mentally disturbed tinfoil-hat wearing nutcase.

Bigal joins 419eater.com

On 2005 August 06 Big Al came across the scam baiting forum www.419eater.com and joined up. He was full of joy at becoming a member of this community that was actively making a difference to people's lives by preventing them from being scammed out of their hard-earned money.

His first post at the 419eater forum, on 2005 August 07:

   
 
Hi I am new to this forum but i am very impressed by what i have seen, over the last few months i have been baiting several scammers by myself and it is with great joy that i now have access to others who have done it better than i have so thanks for a great forum, Big al
 

 
 

— Big Al

By November he was hinting of dissatisfaction with the site, having come to realize that nobody at that discussion forum was recognizing his uniquely wonderful talents.

This is his last surviving post on the site, on 2006 March 04:

   
 
1,000 busted! awsome work by the "phonebusters" you folk are great, well done indeed Big Al
 

 
 

—Big Al

A few days after this post was made, Big Al was banned. They must truly have ripped him a new asshole, the way he has been acting butthurt over the incident ever since.

Big Al drops dox

He scours the web for the real life details of those mods and admins and then posts them on the web. He gets names, addresses and phone numbers. He would copy pictures off a facebook account. He then supplies these details to various unsavory characters he meets online with instructions to make their life miserable.

   
 
Big AL has threatened my family in a recent email to me- he has found names of close family members of mine. He is an Internet Stalker and I encourage NO ONE to email him, talk to him, or have any communication with him.
 

 
 

—Admin of a board that banned him

He uses those details to open accounts on kiddy porn sites and post ads offering illegal content:

   
 
As you have admitted to having mental issues, you sometimes make silly mistakes . and this is why one of my contacts found your email and phone number below on a well known Kiddy pron site. Where you were advertising an underage girl and boy for sale. stupidly using your work email as a contact.
 

 
 

—Big Al

An admin at 419eater describes Big Al:

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This is from the discussion on the arstechnica forum.

Big Al is an e-expert

In the short while that Big Al had posting privileges at eater forum, he demonstrated his total lack of knowledge, comprehension and tact. He was ready to jump in and offer advice on subjects he knew absolutely nothing about.

Someone was complaining about an old computer which hung half way when booted from a Linux install disk. This was due to an error related to missing or unrecognized USB devices, but the problem did not involve the hard disk in any way.

   
 
Hi S P i beleive that the old win 95 did not have usb support on it the later edition did can you get a newer version or win 98 disk? then just f disk and format with the new disk and you should load the usb drivers then you can put on other programs , I am not an expert so if any one corrects me that is fine but this should work Big Al
 

 
 

—Big Al

He was advised to use a light distribution which had less requirements on hardware resources, but Big Al has to butt in again:

   
 
if you put (format c:/s) in it should pick up the usb driver the S enables it to save drivers Big Al
 

 
 

—Big Al

The advice sought was about booting the computer with a Linux install disk, and Bigal was bleating on about formatting the hard disk with drivers for Windoze.

Love affair with Lotta

Big Al emphatically denies that it is his name and address under that avatar of an admin at the scam baiting discussion forum 419eater.com
Big Al also denies that he is this user #21005 at whirlpool forums in Australia.
Big Al is banned from scambaits.com
Big Al is banned from internet love scams
Big Al is banned from Fraudwatchers


While he was at 419eater.com, he fell head over heels in love with an admin there called "Lotta", ostensibly a female.

Scambaiters rarely disclose their true name, sex, or location. They dupe scammers into thinking they are dealing with a real victim, and when finally the scammers realize they have been duped they tend to get a bit pissed off. Death threats are common and desirable as trophies to put in the baiter's signature. Anonymity is a precaution against an irate scammer showing up at a baiter's door-step and making a trophy out of his ass. Bigal has never gotten a trophy out of a scammer. Never.

"Lotta" was really a boy in his mom's basement pretending to be a forty-something woman with three kids.

Big Al sent a photo of himself, love poems etc to this hirsute basement dweller behind "Lotta" and received positive results. Eventually he got to be so jealous that Lotta could not make a friendly remark to another user on the forum without Big Al throwing a fit via PM and email. He cooked up stories to make a rift between Lotta and other people who he imagined were too friendly with "her", and eventually they got tired of all this shadow play.

Big Al still hasn't realized that his love at 419eater isn't the mature woman in the few photos he was sent.

To celebrate the long fake love they had together, lotta still carries the name and address of Big Al in her profile, but Big Al has totally pwned her there since it is the name and address of a totally innocent man. The innocent man is also screwed because lotta is really not a dame, but he does not know it yet.

Somebody made an entry at wikimapia pointing to this address in Brisbane, Australia. Big Al joined up to delete the description that said "The foul mouthed creature who calls himself Big Al lives here".

He went further. He said that "the poster is lying" - but you could not see what exactly the lie was, since he had already removed the description he was complaining about.

Big Al comments on his wikimapia entry

Big Al pretends to be a woman - "Hoaxie"

Big Al is banned from 419eater again under the female pseudonym Hoaxie

Soon after Big Al was banned from www.419eater.com (on 2006 March 10) he thought of a really good way to get back - pretend to be female! Yeah, that would really work, and he would get the sympathy due to a woman.

Sadly, user "Hoaxie" was also banned.

He crawled back using other names and proxies several times - more times than anybody cares to count, and was found out and kicked out each time - sometimes even before making a single post. He is sensitive about this sequence of events, and when somebody says "someone" was banned many times without mentioning any names he takes it as a personal insult. As at a discussion board, here:

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The Clacton Meet

Big Al's signature at theranter

The next stop on this crazy train was scambaits.net, formed from the exodus of other refugees escaping the evil nazi moderators at 419eater. Employing the philosophy that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Big Al joined with this group of baiters (known as the Alliance) to continue hurting the lads and helping scam victims worldwide. Soon enough, though, he was banned from scambaits as well. It seems that Big Al was banned due to some events that developed following the Alliance meeting in Clacton. This was a group of people at the various scam baiting sites getting together, on Clacton-on-Sea, for dinner and drinks and swapping stories about scam baiting. Probably they discussed what a pain in the ass Bigal was being with his constant calls for attention, and tales of butthurt at the hands of the evil eater admins. The hammer fell simultaneously on all Alliance forums (Scambaits, Fraudwatchers, InternetLoveScams). Big Al still talks about the dark and dire conspiracy that was hatched at the Clacton meet in order to cast him outside, where there was darkness, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

   
 
Maybe it would be an idea for the admins to deal with the genuine crooks instead of persecuting and banning members who have only ever worked hard to assist and build up the alliance sites! but have the failing of wanting to stand up to them when falsely accused! However since the clacton meet we have seen the hassling of members who have leo connections or who would stand up to these sorts of things! Exactly the same as on eater! WHY??
 

 
 

— Big Al

Bigal does not know anything about what transpired at the 2007 meeting of upper echelon members of the Alliance in Clacton on Sea since he was not there, but this doesn't stop him from obsessing over it. His fucknuttery was well established prior to Clacton, and the sense of good will and pity everyone felt for Al had eroded, and his banning was in the works for some time. But Bigal had his own interpretation of the events. Here he accuses the alliance admins of making secret deals with the owner of 419eater at Clacton and throwing him out:

   
 
Following the decisions taken at the Clacton meet, and the secret discussions that took place between the Three and Twinkieman! it is now clear why the members who can think for themselves and are willing to stand up to them as well as the leo members, are being falsely accused and eased out!
 

 
 

—Big Al

His blog was hacked

The full text of the blog
Big Al explains that the picture on the blog is not really his.

He put up a blog, roninclean.

   
 
All members of the scam baiting communites are welcome to comment freely, without fear of their comments being deleted for speaking the truth!
 

 
 

— A. J. Ronin

In the height of irony, right below this first post, two comments had been deleted by the admin.

The fun did not last. Someone acquired the password by pretending to a female head over heels in love with him, and changed the contents to what we see there now.

He whined about it (as starfighter) in a google support group: google help - the email he used to post to that group was compromised, too, and he had to sign up another account to post to it as starfighter2.

Much later, somebody started a new blog cashbaiting-darkarts-volksanctum with his old posts. He whined to google and, as the first post was not answered, he whined again. He used the username Zylon this time.

Big Al joins theRanter

Bigal complains about somebody using his picture as avatar
Bigal whines again as his earlier complaint was ignored
Yes or No - That is the question
"Yes or No" - That is the answer, too.

After Big Al was banned from 419eater.com, he tried joining various other web forums set up to discuss scam baiting, and was banned from every one of them. He insisted that everyone drop the business in hand and discuss the grievous wrong the cretins! at eater had done by banning him. They found it easier to emulate eater's example, and ban him too.

theRanter discussion forum was set up by members of 419eater as a venue where they could discuss anything. It later became one frequented by the members who had been banned from 419eater. The attraction of this board was that it then had a no-ban policy.

Big Al, well aware of his reputation of having been banned from all the forums he had joined so far, was wary of letting his identity become known. He joined up as "Striker" and posted bland comments to be accepted there. He posted links to the "Roninclean Blog", and emphatically denied that he was the author. Then, feeling courageous, he joined again as "Big Al" about one and a half months later.

Even at the ranter, who were at odds with eater, Big Al's efforts did not meet up with the appreciation he had hoped for. He would post fragments of old posts, entire private messages and chat logs (some of them made up) without any explanation of context, and get angry and go ballistic whenever somebody asked him for enlightenment. He constantly referred to himself as the wronged party, and was always on the verge of making some momentous revelation that would be a bombshell, second in magnitude only to Gabriel a-blawin' 'is hawn.

It was here, at theRanter, that he announced that his computers had been hacked and keylogged, his passwords all stolen, and his blog hijacked. A few people there got together, played a trick on him and made him divulge his password: "419eater". He was using this same password on all his accounts. They made him believe they had full access to his computer and had installed a keylogger in it. He believes in this story to this day, and relates it as the way his photo was made known, and according to him putting his life in danger.

One of them took over the Roninclean blog and made the single post that survives to this day.

Big Al first explained that the picture on the blog was not really his. Then, when somebody appropriated it as his avatar he complained weakly that somebody was using somebody's photo against the rules. Then, he pulled out all stops and whined loudly that his own picture was on display, removing any doubt anyone might have had about it.

Later, on another forum, he used a picture of a member he had found on facebook as his avatar. He was asked whether he had the permission of that member to use the picture, and his answer was evasive. However, he was quite emphatic that it was a very simple question, easy to answer:

   
 
It is quite easy YES or NO ?? One answer has a total of three letters and the other has two? Surely it cannot be that hard to answer??
 

 
 

—Big Al

   
 
Yes or No. Happy now?
 

 
 

—Big Al

He was given a sub-forum at the ranter to post his rants in, and made a moderator of that forum. The regulars there then flooded it with crap posts, so that he could not keep the place organized. He deleted a few posts and got called out on it. His own posts were modified, and had little derogatory tag lines tacked on. When he tried to retaliate the same way, he was taken to task. His complaints were met with derision, and he was advised to "walk it off, pussy". He walked off.

He stopped posting at theRanter, accusing the admins of harassment by deleting and changing his posts. But he constantly keeps an eye on the activity there for any references to himself.

Crusade against anti-scam sites

He eventually started on a crusade against all those forums which had made the mistake of banning him, and stood by and cheered when a few sites seemed to be closing down.

   
 
State of play: Fraudwatchers - DEAD.

Anti419academy - Death imminent.
Scambaiters - on life support.
Internet love scams - weakening.

 


 
 

— Big Al

He seemed genuinely happy that these websites, set up to help the scam baiting community, and to offer resources to educate the public against falling for these scams, were in difficulty.

His usual modus operandi would be to join a scam baiting forum, and then interfere in its treatment of members. He would demand preferential treatment and demand that his moronic ideas be followed. Eventually they would get tired of this and ban him.

One method he used to close down a few such sites was to register again using a proxy and post a few inflammatory and racist comments against the scammers - saying that they were nigerian nigger monkeys, for instance. Then the forum would be reported to the hosts for being racist and discriminatory. He managed to close down quite a few sites this way before the others wised up and tightened their moderation of such posts.

He would later post material made up to show that members of these sites were actively engaged in scamming people. He accuses these websites of teaching their members the techniques of extracting money from gullible people by promising them riches.

   
 
I think that your eater masters may also want to thank you as well. Due solely to your posts I have now closed down an EXTRA 36 fake eater scam sites.

I am sure they will be very grateful to you for being responsible for them losing even more illegally obtained money.

Every time I come under attack from the eater lackeys, I will close down more income producing fake eater sites. There now that will make them happy eh?
 


 
 

— Big Al

Here, he is accusing the people at 419eater (his first site) of being responsible for putting up the fake online store websites in order to steal money.

Arstechnica article

The Technology discussion forum Ars Technica ran an article on Scams and Scambaiting titled Baiting Nigerian scammers for fun (not so much for profit) The comments on the article quickly became a discussion on the ethics of wasting someone's time, when he was straining to put food on his table.

   
 
I'm sorry to be a wet blanket, but I think this is nasty and immoral. Scamming isn't right, obviously, and the baiters' stories are admittedly often funny, but let's get real. The scam baiters are well-off Westerners (even if they happen to be poor, by global standards, they're relatively well-off). The scammers themselves are from the developing world, and they're just trying to make a living--in an awful way, to be sure.
 

 
 

—A liberal bleedin' 'eart member at Ars Technica

Four and a half pages of this sort of discussion, and Bigal made his appearance. He signed up an account as "Berrymike". The owner of 419eater was "Mike Berry".

   
 
There are many honest members on 419eater who do a good job. But they are heavily brainwashed into believing they are with a good forum.
 

 
 

—Bigal, signed up under the name of the owner of 419eater.com

These questions will save the world!

He was challenged by other members of 419eater who had registered at arstechnica forums, but he refused to admit that he was the bigal who had been banned from there, and had fifteen questions for them.

   
 
I have MANY more questions, but lets see how you go with asking these in the public section of eater. There are 15 questions that I would like posted on eater thanks.
 

 
 

—Berrymike

He really should have had a question # 16 - Why do birds suddenly appear when you are near?

As he was not a member of the website in question when he was asking those questions, it was really none of his business, but he asked them nevertheless. He wanted the answer "because 419eater is run by a bunch of crooks". He did not get it.

Big Al doesn't like the answers

After these questions were discussed by members of his old forum, Big Al dismissed them as unsatisfactory, and had this to say:

   
 
EXACTLY as I predicted many times, here comes the dogpiling and claims that I am crazy, as this is the only defense the eater mods have against the truth. So now as a direct result of this, I have posted on a site that has 3 0r 4 THOUSAND visitors a day. Have a nice day retards. RFLMAO
 

 
 

—Berrymike

The dot net fiasco

Big Al set up a web forum imitating 419eater - if he could not get to heaven, by gaw he was going to be all the members at a reasonable facsimile. It was named www.419eater.net - the original was "dot com", the imitation being referred to as "dot net".

Dot Net was to be the place where none of the faggotry that took place at dot com would happen. Anybody would be able to post as he pleased, and posts would not be deleted or moderated. It was easy to see what it would turn into - a festering pile of fail.

Here is bigal introducing his 419eater.net forum at 419legal.org, a site where he was an admin, "scammerslammer":

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A considerable number of members there had the same style of posting, and they were all incensed at the "evil eater mods". They all sported usernames that were ripoffs of moderators and administrators at eater dot com, and they posted names, addresses, phone numbers, and merciless abuse.

The 419eater people were running a scam warning operation too. They would somehow get into the email account of the scammer, get the email address of victims who were sending him money, then attempt to track them down and try to stop them from throwing their money away.

It was not an easy task. The victims had been promised untold riches and they believed it. They were already rich. There was just a matter of some trifling amount of fees, a bit of bribes, some chemicals to be purchased, and then their investment was coming back multiplied many-fold. This phase of scrounging for money for bribes was just a passing phase, a gateway to untold riches. It was a hard task bringing them down from cloud nine.

But Big Al's website said that these people were liars. The victims preferred to believe Big Al. These bad people at scamwarners had come to steal their windfall and their advice was to be rejected. So they continued feeding the scammers until their money was all gone, all their friends' money was gone, and nobody would lend them any money, any longer. Eventually the original 419eater forum was forced to sit up and take notice.

There was a problem - the website belonged to "Krokodile Dundee" of Australia. The names and addresses were fake. Email addresses listed were anonymous. "Dot net" was hosted in the USA. "Dot com" was based in the UK. The legal obstacles were formidable. Dot net was an unimpregnable fortress, and within its safety Big Al sat and hurled abuse at the evil mods who had banned him years ago.

The evil mods swallowed their pride and begged Big Al to take down this hate site. Victims of fraud were googling the persons offering help at eater dot com (and an allied site, scamwarners). Dot net assured these people that eater dot com and scamwarners were there to squeeze them out of whatever money they had left. Dot net said that eater dot com was the driving force behind the scam emails. Big Al trumpeted in dot net that dot com was the training facility for scammers and fraudsters.

Of course, Big Al was not the owner of dot net. Or so he said.

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Somebody protested that Berrymike (bigal in disguise) was being unjustly harsh towards 419eater. Bigal used his admin powers to edit that post, and proclaimed that Berrymike was right.

   
 
The post's by "berrymike" are the truth so will remain.
 

 
 

—scammerslammer, admin (bigal)

There was one tiny lead - one unfortunate individual, a nurse by profession, had let Big Al use his credit card to pay for registration of the domain. Right now his bank account is xxxx as it is being leeched by the lawyers he has to pay to sort out the legal mess he has landed himself in.

Big Al is not the owner. He has disclaimed all responsibility. He is happy, and that nasty nurse can go roast in the hell he has landed himself in.

The story is there, in all its gory details on the 419eater forum, but you have to be a member in order to read it.

Death of dot net

Lotta celebrates the death of 419eater.net

When 419eater.net was taken down due to the efforts of the 419eater.com team, they celebrated this by sporting avatars that said "404" and "nothing found". For a few days, entering the address 419eater.net in a browser resulted in a 404 not found error. Then it was replaced with a page saying that the site was temporarily down pending investigation by the ISP. Then it came up again, but the content was gone. Big Al worked tirelessly, posting inoffensive jokes and general banter and such drivel in order to give visitors the impression of a busy forum.

Big Al sported this avatar celebrating the return of 419eater.net.

When complaints to the ISP hosting 419eater.net proved to be ineffective, 419eater resorted to legal action claiming infringement of copyright. This proved to be effective, and 419eater.net ceased to exist.

Big Al has never explained how his pet forum disappeared. He attempted to set up a few forums on free hosts and repeat the dot net experience, but they were all shut down. He does not say if he lost any money in the lawsuit either. Probably nothing. The nurse from scranton paid it all, and was left with just the shirt on his back.

The 419 eater dot net forum is dead. 419eater.net now redirects to 419eater.com. Big Al has nothing to crow about now.

Eater lolsuit

One of the owners of 419eater.com is a lawyer. He was roped in to deal with the 419eater dot net nuisance, and he filed suit for violation of copyright.

The first lawsuit lapsed, but they used it to subpoena the dot net server and get at the server logs. They used this further to discover the identities of people who were posting at dot net.

Those were an interesting bunch. There was a chef in Manatee, whose picture of his own rear graces the "gallery of lame copies" of ED's page on Goatse. There was a survivalist surveyor from Troy, IL. There were a bunch of members from eater whose accounts were banned as soon as they voiced protest. There were a bunch of accounts by bigal.

Eater published the details of these persons on their forum, innocently asking if their members had more information on these people. They might have received a few phone calls in the middle of the night from excited Nigerians wishing to inform them of risky free deals, and a few deliveries of quick-setting cement mix delivered to their driveway.

The lawyer singled out one person - a nurse by profession from Scranton, PA, whose credit card had been used to pay for hosting the dot net hosting and domain. He was named in the second lawsuit, and asked to pay damages due to copyright infringement. They eventually settled for an undisclosed amount of money.

Fallout of the lolsuit

TheFailure, owner of thescambaiter.net, forbids his members to mention 419eater.com

Other websites, whose members had made fun of 419eater.com quickly sat up and took notice. 419eater.com was evidently not to be trifled with, because it was routine for their owner lawyer to slap a lawsuit and extract money from the owner if he felt like it.

Big Al joins JUOT

Somebody joined Joe's Ultimate Off Topic discussion forum with username "Bigal" and proceeded to spray random threads with passages from the original Big Al's posts taken at random from around the net. The inhabitants of that corner of the innertubes were at first puzzled, and then enraged.

   
 
This guy's IP suggests a popular east coast city ... I don't get why he talks about sh!t like we have any idea wtf he's talking about?
 

 
 

— admin at juot

   
 
He believes everyone else can hear the voices he does.
 

 
 

— member at juot

Big Al did not take these allegations lying down. These people were besmirching his reputation, and they had to be put right, fast. He joined up there the next day as "Big AL" and posted his rebuttal.

   
 
The member above posting as Bigal who joined yesterday, has nothing to do with me in any way, and I believe it is yet another feeble attempt to malign me by the retards who are afraid of the truth being posted.
 

 
 

— Big AL

An amusing shitfest followed as each of the big al's accused the other of being the imposter. Looking at their posts, it was hard to say which was which. The fake bigal had an easy job of it as he just copy-pasted old posts of the real big al's that was somewhat vaguely relevant to the present discussion. The real big al was exasperated, and it was funny to see him in a rage at his own words in settings which made them sound like gibberish.

   
 
I have registered under the name I use on AMB ie Big Al TODAY, All other members posting under any variations of this name are frauds. The impostor is also posting PARTS of my previous messages in an attempt to mislead.
 

 
 

—Big AL

The regulars at JUOT rose to the occasion, registered multiple "AL" usernames and added to the lulz:

  • Real Big Al : What the hell is going on here?
  • Bigger Al : You bastards will REAP and LEARN!!!
  • Nig Al : Word up homies- The REAL Nig AL is in da house! All these other IMPOSTERS are lame white dudes with small white dicks. Especially "Real Big Al." I'm the REAL thing ladies, I'm here to cover your vanilla canyons in my chocolate sauce. My superior Nigerian manhood has made the other Al's jealous because I've sexed up all their wives.
  • Big Al Bundy : The truth is I haven't been called "Big Al" since High School when I scored 4 touch-downs in a single game! But, irregardless, I AM the REAL Big AL!
  • Big Al Gore : This is bullshit! I invented the Internet, I invented everything. None of you would even have a forum to complain about if it wasn't for me therefore I AM THE REAL BIG AL!!!
  • Big Al Sharpton : Lord O' Lord take pity upon these White Devils for they know not what they speak. I am the one and true Big Al - ask anyone in Harlem who is "Big Al?" and they will all point to me - that is all the proof you need.
  • Big Al Franken :
  • Big Al Queda : Al Franken sounds like a Jew. Death to the Great Satan! We are the true Big Al - we strike fear into you all. We Jihad your buildings, we jihad your planes. All your bases are belong to us!
  • Big AL : My My, what a popular guy I am right now. All these people want to be me, are they really jealous of me? I did not know I had so many fans who would like to be me.

This quickly led to a discussion about identifying the "Real Big Al". It was suggested that the real big al will have a titanium hip, as he has posted on several forums about going in for that operation. He was shocked at the suggestion that it was a cover, a euphemism for getting treated by electric shocks to the head in the looney bin.

   
 
So to make you happy here are some facts. For the record I will be 64 this year.

Yes I have had a hip replacement, So? I also have had some childhood diseases like chicken pox, but I have recovered from those thanks. I have never had any treatment for any mental illness in my life and have not had any electrical treatment, unless you count the time as a child I accidentally touched a live electrical wire.
 


 
 

—Big Al

Big Al survives the Brisbane flood

After the flood of January 2011 Big Al posted this to calm the fears everyone, who was doubtless worried sick of his safety:

   
 
Many thanks for all the inquiries as to whether the flood affected me, they are appreciated.

As I live near the top of a hill and my house is up on stumps I have been fortunate to avoid any water problems.
 


 
 

— Big AL

   
 
Die, Faggot
 

 
 

—User at JUOT

He was asked why he was spamming the forum with shit nobody cared about. After it was conclusively proved that nobody at JUOT had cared whether bigal had drowned in the flood or not, he whined that too much attention was being directed at his small harmless lie, while other, more important, things were going on. His point is that his announcement as if he had received multitudes of private messages was a triflingly piffling matter, but other, even more mightier harmful things were being perpetrated. Like links to sites hosting malware. Like the Encyclopedia Dramatica.

The "link to malware" he whined about is a link to this page on ED.

   
 
Now lets see some of the members ask others here who have been proved to be liars to explain their motives and posts. Let them ask why members are allowed to post links to malware on the sites they post on. Surely this is of more importance that who asks me if I am ok?
 

 
 

—Big AL

OMG! Big Dumb Al is me!!

Big Dumb Al tweets about his favourite farting place

Somebody created a twitter account, #BigDumbAl and linked to it at JUOT. Bigal took offence, and said that he was being harassed. It was funny, because there was nothing in it to link him to it except the Big ... Al in the username.

The tweets were mostly about flatulence and soiling one's pants.

Banned from JUOT

Big Al eventually had words with the forum admin over the signature of another user. The offending contents were a links to this ED article, and #BigDumbAl at twitter. He said they were denigrating him, and wanted to serve a DMCA takedown notice to have the offending links removed.

The Admin responded by banning him. He said that being a member on his forum was a privilege, and this privilege would be revoked should somebody think of involving the forum in legal proceedings.

Here is one of his posts from JUOT, where he emphatically denies that his name is Alan James Watson. We should all believe him.

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Crusade against URLjet

   
 
are they protecting someone at the expense of their own integrity?
 

 
 

—Victim of a host company, Zethon (Bigal)

Angry at the JUOT staff for banning him, he took up a crusade to shut down the forum. He sent complaints to their host, URLjet. These were duly ignored as the rantings of a mad man. He signed up at Web Hosting Talk forum using the favourite username of the admin of Anothermessageboard, Zethon, and posted his rant.

   
 
if I do a DMCA report my details will be forwarded to the hackers by DMCA, and so will put my family and myself in danger, this is unacceptable.
 

 
 

—Big Al

   
 
If they don't know your real name and are using some other random guy's details (because they don't have yours) how do they know the random guy's name is similar to yours, and how on earth are they harrassing YOU?
 

 
 

— Member at Web Hosting Talk

He sprayed this bullshit all over the net. It was deleted as spam from most places, but one another place it survives is complaints board - a website where they ask companies for money to remove complaints users post on that site.

In both places, he was asked to provide a valid DMCA request so that any offending content could be removed provided he could prove copyright to the disputed content.

Someone joined up as "Alan James Watson" to respond to him at complaints board. His complaint was that his picture was being used at JUOT discussion forum as an avatar. This user posted that picture and asked bigal if that was indeed the picture he was objecting to. Bigal wasn't pleased. His campaign was to remove that pic from public view, and here it was being thrust in his face again.

   
 
"Victim of a host company" was told to submit a proper DMCA request, which he has not yet done. Let me speculate on the reasons:

1. It is not really his picture, so he can't provide proof.

2. He is a hobo, living on the streets and leeching off working people, so he does not have an address.

3. He is a felon on the run from the law, so revealing his identity will get him arrested and in jail
 


 
 

—Alan James Watson

Brown Monkeys

Big Al has attracted his retinue of followers who like to poke him with a sharp stick. His reaction to this is twofold:

  • Threaten to get them banned from eater
  • Call them brown monkeys

This old man holds membership in the website eater forum as the ultimate that anyone can aspire to, and the threat of being banned from that utopian forum will be enough to make anyone fall into line. Or so he thinks.

He is a racist prick, and anybody with skin colour different than his own is a monkey.


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Medical History

He is known to have an artificial hip.


   I got an infection on my leg, and it spread to my hip!!
   not a good thing to happen, so they say! i have had that
   many tests i feel like a pincushion!
   I am getting better now that the antibiotics are working
   and the swelling is going down, so should be ok !
   It is something i have to watch out for, thanks again,
   talk later "Al"

   


He gets psychiatric treatment:

 Hi,I am currently on break from posting for a while
 and will return soon. I have been admitted to the
 Brisbane psychiatric hospital and when I get out I
 will continue exposing the lies that the cretins
 have been spreading, and closing down many fake
 eater web sites. Until then, please check back
 occasionally to see how my medication is working.
 "AL"

Trolling Big Al

He explains his choice of username at thescambaiter.com

He does not like to be called Bi Gal.

Big Al has an acute case of megalomania and is always ready to defend his good name. Joining one of the sites where he has not been banned yet and addressing him as Bi Gal immediately provokes a reaction. On a site where he sucks up to the admin (eg. thescambaiter.com) it can result in an immediate ban, followed by a circle-jerk by Big Al, the admin, and assorted hangers on.

He is also sensitive about his age, and saying that he is 65 years old when he really is only 64 years young will bring on his wrath.

   
 
You can ask him why he posts another lie that I am 70 years old when he knows full well that I am not that age.

Ask him why he uses a photochopped picture of me that was stolen from my Pc by a hacker, in his avatar on other forums. And as part of the background of his monkey sig here that is a caricature of the same stolen photo.
 


 
 

—Big Al

This is the animation he is complaining about.

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