rowlie
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Joined: 5/18/2006
Msg: 176 | |
| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 4/20/2007 3:45:19 PM | As like as not it is NOT an internet cafe but a hi-tech establishment in Nigeria, but it could be anywhere. It probably has IT experts on duty all the time and paid shift workers to run the scams. The owner of the business lives in a substantial modern house costing millions and drives top of the range cars. He probably has links to money laundering operations abroad, and local mules there who work for him. In every true sense he is an international criminal. But have no doubt, you do not mess with them. Just while you think the scams are ludicrous, they often are, but that is of no concern to the scammer. They may have 20,000 scam letters out at a time or more, and even if .O5% are suckered and pay up, that is a huge gain. The list of suicides, lost houses and poverty, murder and extortion produced by these people is heart rending. You can't improve on what I have said here and above. The rule is " If it is too good to be true, it probably is a scam."
That cheque you were sent is probably a fake ( Pay that in and you could face criminal proceedings). You havn't won a lottery you didn't enter. There are no millions in a bank vault. That beautiful Rusian girl who wishes to come and marry you ( once you send the visa fee and plane fare) is in fact Fat Yuri. Google is your friend. Use it. Above all tell them nothing, not even that you know it is a scam. If you give them feedback they merely become better scammers. | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 4/20/2007 4:06:06 PM | | Nigeria is one of the most renowned places in the world for fraud of this kind, you should run a mile from this bloke, it is a scam 100% certain. Their favourite tactic is to earn your trust, then sell you a sob story and ask you to send some cash via Western Union. Don’t do it, the scammers can be very elaborate and convincing with their stories, but they’ve been doing it for years so practice makes perfect, right? | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 4/29/2007 8:17:37 PM | I've had a bunch of women try to hit me up for money online. Usually they say that they're stranded in Africa and need money to get home. One said she needed money to pay a lawyer. I usually smell BS right off the bat. Fortunately I never fell for any of those scams. Even if they were telling the truth, why send money to a stranger. Anyone who needs money is going to try their friends and family first.
DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE FROM A DATING SITE!!!
I will admit to stringing them along a little though. :) I like to have fun with them and waste their time. It helps discourage them. It's kind of like putting a telemarketer on hold for 20 minutes. | |
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BayOne
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Joined: 2/15/2007
Msg: 180 | |
| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 4/29/2007 8:22:28 PM | My only question is this........You are still speaking to this person WHY?
There is an enormous difference being being a Christian and being a sucker.
Block immediately.
My take on it.
Bay | |
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| It is a scam!
Posted: 4/29/2007 8:40:39 PM | | I have experienced guys running similar scams at least 6 time in the last year or so. I am always Soo Beautiful or a soul mate to them as soon as I chat with them only afew times. Then they usually come up with something to do with an orphanage. For one reason or another the banks can't cash the money orders. The ATM machines don't take his card etc etc.They always bring up the god card Trying to pull at my heart strings. I have gotten to the point If any man I am chating with mentions he is from Africa or headed to Africa I cut off all comunication. I put them on ignore and report them as spam. I even saw a show recently. Confirming that one woman was being scamed in the same way. The picture she had of him wasn't even him. He had talked her into selling things and sending him money. Cashing Money orders for him that ended up being fradulent. All I can tell you is don't waste your time kick him to the curb! | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 4/29/2007 8:45:51 PM | hi everyone,,,,met a scammer on my space . same crap loves me wants to marry me but needs money..i knew it was a scam from the word get go...love playing with his mind ,,told him i was in a nut house at one time ,but he still wanted me to send money so he could get me out.goes by the name clifford gleason. watch out for these people....go check out romance scam . com......i think we all need to keep sending them e-mail get them busy then they won,t have so much time tring to scam others.clifforfgleason@yahoo.com send him an e-mail..... have a wonderful day  | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/16/2007 8:15:50 PM | | Get rid of him right now they all come up with these stories it is a scam. I've had it tried on me several times and they all have the same story they want to come home can't get to a bank to get their money want you to send them the money to get home and will give it back once they get here. If he sends you any money orders to cash and wire him the money back don't they are fake. Do as I did take them to the Post Office if they are Postal money orders and to the police if they are regular money orders same with any checks. Block him from your list. They try to make you feel guilty. I REPEAT ITS A SCAM BIG TIME. | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/16/2007 8:40:44 PM | this is so sad. that people play on emotions like this.
i had a situation where i met a woman on the net and i later had money problems too complicated to go into. despite the fact we have never met she lent me a reasonably substantial amount of money.
she didnt tell many people but the few she did said i was conning her, which i completely understand. i wasnt very comfortable about it from a point of view of how it would look to other people. anyway obviously i wasnt conning her, i like her very much. but generally its not a very smart thing to do.
this really does sound like a scam through an through unfortunately. it really is an awful thing to do to someone. anything with nigeria involved should send a million alarm bells ringing everywhere. | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 9:59:23 PM | | its a scam, first clue was, you cant just buy a one way ticket if your not a national of the country your going to, it has to be round trip, i have had several from nigeria posing same or similar scenarios, all scams, block, delete,forget the guy,, you are a money tree to him or whoever he is working for, | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 10:13:14 PM | I have a good time with these people...wasting their time and money. If you want a few hours of cheap (free) entertainment on the subject. Go to www.ebolamonkeyman.com
He makes his living screwing with these bastids. And, the rap group they play the scammers with..Four-on Nine. Classic stuff, the lyrics are priceless.
JD | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 10:19:46 PM | | I must get at least 2 e-mails of this type every month. Promises of lots of dough. I am going to have to figure out how to divert these types to the trash bin. Seems like a different e-mail address each time. | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 10:35:04 PM | JD. just had a look in the monkeyman sight interesting. As for the girl who likes the man who is asking her for money, he is a con artist if you don't block him everyone on here has been wasting their time, and he could turn out to be dangerous if he is shouting at you already. good luck. Start fishing again. | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 10:51:30 PM | i had that one;s but it was not on a dateing sit ... i reported him 2 the police ... And now i do not see him all he does not email me .. i say good by 2 shit  | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 11:03:51 PM | DO NOT SEND HIM MONEY.
This is a scam that is bigtime today online. Most times.......lately...it involves Nigeria....
and other places like this. TV has viewed shows exposing the scams. A room full of people sit with computers........it is work. They use pictures of people that they steal from others places and put out there to be them.........they build an online romance, which mentally builds to feel like soul-mates and then same stories as you are sharing.
Even Dr. Phil did a show on it.........I do not watch daytime TV, but read this and.........some woman have lost a lot of money giving to men they think they love and ..not only are they out the money,,,,,,,,but feeling heart broken even though the person they are talking to -in love with- is a fake-------its all a fake...
Good girl for not sending money. Also, who would send money to anyone who cursed them hahaha, but see........his boss is on him and he makes money on the money he gets from you.
Please.......block contact with this person........if by a snowball's chance in hell this guy is not a fake.........you still need to not send him money- he is an online mind romance to you. As you said, he is a stranger and in another country. But, even if he was scamming from in the USA, he is a stranger. Keep your wallent shut .
Smart girl to post this and not send money-very.
Find another romance honey ; you are very pretty. | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 11:19:05 PM | Stop talking to him- he is a criminal-
he couldn't care less about you-
by "soul mate" he meant 'mark'
total manipulators these guys
sometimes they say evil lies to get money-as though they have a sick child or
a child who died- etc
it's all crap
they are just liars and thieves
he senses a 'soft spot' for him from you, or he would be long gone
now it's about his ego and 'getting one over' on you | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 11:24:40 PM | Has anyone tried to contact the OP to see what the outcome of this is.? The original post was one year ago. I checked her profile, but I can't email her (I'm too old )
I'm sorry there were a few unkind people posting. Not everyone is savy to this type of scam....I had no idea that it was so prevalent when I first went online and would have been grateful for helpful advice....which is exactly what MOST of you gave her.
My lover was from Saratoga, NY....a widower bringing up and home schooling his 13 yr. old daughter.....who also wrote to me.......After about 2 weeks he went to Africa to teach sign language to deaf children and his daughter came down with a brain tumor....and you know the rest.
I printed out all his correspondence, reported him to Admin.....giving all addresses I had...and blocked him. Has anyone heard from him under another name? He was immediately deleted by Admin. Damn, he was a handsome devil.....wonder who the pic really was......
I'm wondering if this might be the Forum where we could post details of any scams that we get....Russian, Nigerian, etc. so that others can be alerted? Does anyone know if this is legal? Admin?
Sincerely,
The REAL KNITTIN KITTEN....Judy
PS. I'm not lookin for money....I just want a long term relationship...
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 11:28:33 PM | Toni,
Hon, you need to run as fast and as far away from this creep as you can. DO NOT talk to him anymore. He is a thief in poorly comoflaged disquise. Not too long ago on another dating site that I won't mention here a man contacted me, out of the blue. He said that he was really interested in getting to know me and that he was a pediatrician who had gone to volunteer for 3 months in Lagos, Nigeria. He said all the right things that a woman would like to hear, except I didn't fall for it. I immediately saw red flags all over the place.
He had talked to me for a couple (2) of days when he asked for money. I had talked to him figuring that I would see just how far he would take it, since he was figuring that I was a "vulnerable lonely woman." Too bad for him that I am intelligent, logical and can see a scam a mile away. Anyway, long story short he said that the children there are in severe poverty, which a lot of them are, however, he tried to tell me that he had used all his cash and they didn't take credit cards there in Lagos and that he needed money to help the children. Sob story..... Well, Lagos is a large city with banks etc. and I don't have an idea why he thought that anyone would fall for that one. So, that was the end of that. I had brought his evil deeds to the forefront....
Toni, ANYTIME, that someone asks you for money online, run. Run fast, run hard, but just run. They are not after you as a potential mate. They are after you for whatever money they can squeeze out of you before you figure them out. Please don't fall for it!
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 11:34:58 PM | Rowlie,
One of the most important things you said, although your whole post is important, is:
"Above all tell them nothing, not even that you know it is a scam. If you give them feedback they merely become better scammers." This is so true! Just drop them like a steaming hunk of molten metal and never, I repeat, NEVER, look back!
OneHumanHeart | |
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| Guy I met online keeps asking for money
Posted: 5/20/2007 11:38:47 PM | Rowlie: I was interested in what you said in your 4/18 post so I went to your profile to email you for a more detailed explanation concerning these scammers. Unfortunately, though I'm not too old, I don't live in England so I can't get through to you.
Hopefully you'll see this post and contact me on POF to explain to me (in non-computereze) how I can be of help in attempting to put a dent in these scammers. I need a worthy project...
I reported him to Admin. because I wanted him off the site ASAP, but knew full well that he'd return under other names immediately. Explain to me what you feel is a better tactic.
Sincerely,
THE REAL KNITTIN KITTEN
Judy | |
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