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Posted: 12/22/2007 3:57:03 AM | I met someone on this sight posing as a pretty ladie. Things were going great till she asked for money. I messaged her back and said no. In fact I cussed her out. I thought I found true love and got this S.H.I.T.? People suck. Has anyone on here been scammed for money or have people attempted to do so? I am eager for your responses. Her profile looked legitimate. It didn't raise any concerns in my mind. I was just thinking wow! I got a response! This is great! Low and behold whoever was behind those nice pictures wanted money. You can never be to carefull.
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Posted: 12/22/2007 4:19:07 AM | Asking for $$$$ on this site is a big no-no.
Report it to the POF moderators.
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Posted: 12/22/2007 4:23:59 AM | | It is to late now to report her. She deleted her profile here. I blocked her from sending me Instant messages and emails. | |
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Posted: 12/22/2007 4:25:03 AM | | HMMMMM......ran across some guy named "David" that was running a money scam. After he made the initial contact, he deleted his profile from POF. The money scam came in the way of wanting someone to accept a money order from one person, and sending it off to another. I told him NOOOOOOO way........... | |
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Posted: 12/22/2007 5:00:51 AM | | I had two guys try to scam me. I just played along with them for a few weeks until they asked for money and then reported them. Anyone who says they know you are soulmates just from your photo, starts saying they love you and that you were meant to be together when you've been IMing all of 2 days, are scammers. | |
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Posted: 12/22/2007 5:02:49 AM | OMG! I spoke to this guy named David as well. It was off RSVP and he deleted his profile after he started talking to me, telling me it was because he wanted to focus on getting to know me. After numerous emails, he made me feel really special. Not to mention he was "Model material" (or should I say the pic he posted was!).
I asked him a couple of times for his phone no. and he just dismissed it.
Then he told me he had to go to africa to see his mum because she had had an accident over there. Wouldnt you know it, the next email was how sick she was and that she needed an operation. The following email was how he had been robbed and could I pay for the operation his mum so desperately needed! I was shatttered. I didnt realise there were people that would stoop so low as to play with someone elses feelings like that. Still waiting to meet my soulmate but Im not sure its ever gonna happen | |
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Posted: 12/22/2007 5:07:12 AM | I get that a lot over Yahoo chat. Haven't come across anyone trying it on this site.
When I do come across a scammer, I usually play their games back on them. I think I still have those two fake $950 money orders one scammer sent me  | |
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Posted: 12/22/2007 6:09:48 AM | | It's common. The roaches infest every nook and cranny and that includes the internet. Opportunists aren't going to miss a chance to play you or run a confidence game. Sucks but it means I have a knee-jerk reaction to anyone more than 5-10 years younger than I am because I wonder... what the hell are you up to? | |
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Posted: 12/23/2007 2:41:04 AM |
Yeah I just hate being F.U.C.K.E.D. with. Im here for love not bull .s.h.i.t. or lies. I wish people could just be honest. | |
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Posted: 12/23/2007 6:45:17 AM | I've had this happen twice as well. The first guy told me he was in Iraq and needed me to send money so he could buy gifts for an orphanage there.
This last guy told me he was a doctor from london, down in Africa on a mission for some organization. They were short of money and could I send some and he'd pay me back when he came home. Right! An organization of doctors has less money than a cashier at Walmart??? Too damn funny. But seriously NOT funny. I didn't meet him on here.
They both proclaimed their undying love for me within 3 days of initial contact. I just feel really sad that there must be people who actually fall for this sort of thing? Because it wouldn't be so prevalent on these sights if it didn't work at least occasionally. | |
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Posted: 12/23/2007 6:57:32 AM | GET the hell over it!! hello? its 2008 soon and the way of the world..u know so u dint lose nothin so chill and MOVE ON ...yikes | |
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Posted: 12/23/2007 9:28:30 AM | I have one going at the moment , but "she" is not from this site. .. After exchanging a couple of e-mails she swearing undying love for me .. !
She professes to be dutch , 30, great looking according to the photos, and is going to Africa (Nigeria) on a UNICEF mission - left on Friday . So now I am waiting for the " I've been robbed" e-mail, please send money....
So what makes me suspicious ? Well, I have known a lot of Dutch and Belgian people, for years, and I know how they speak and write English, the phrases they use, and so on... her mails just dont "sound" Dutch .. they dont usually start a mail with " Hello Dear" ....
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Posted: 12/23/2007 10:56:02 AM | | Hi Kazz1, my real name is Shane, and I can relate to money scams, I met a few women on this site and most of them lie and are dishonest and even pretend to be attracted to you when they are not just so they can get what they want from you. I know that all women are not like this, but it makes it really hard to trust anyone when you keep meeting these kind of people. I met a woman by the name of De, she was 55 yrs old and lived in Belleville which is about an hour drive fro me to see her, I met her and we seemed to really hit it off and dated from the August/September timeframe until about the middle of November. I had to go to Belleville to pick her up every weekend as she does not have a driver's license or a car either, I brought her to my home and spent a lot of time getting to know her, she met my family and even had thankgiving dinner with them. She told me she had a court case in which she was left a house which was in her name from her stepson's will, and if she won her last appeal which she said had been going on for 2 yrs, she would be getting $530,000 US. The problem was that her lawyer needed money in the amount of $935 and she claimed she had only 10 days to come up with this money or the appeal would be lost for good, she claimed she tried to borrow from friends but could not get the cash. This was on October 21st, 2007. I had fallen in love with this woman big time and as she had met my family and spent more than 8 weekends at my home, and even though the relationship was never an intimate one, she had gained my trust in her totally. I told her I could loan her the money for two weeks only and would need it back after this, she said no problem and promised to repay me, I am losing my job in the new year and she knew this and the fact that I am only 2 yrs discharged from a bankruptcy after a layoff from GM of 2 yrs in length. Then on Nov 7th, 2007 she told me she needed another small loan of $280 for a flight to Wisconsin, USA to sign legal papers to get the money from the appeal that she said she had finally won. I loved her and trusted her, so I loaned her $1,220 total to be repaid once she got her money from her court case which was supposed to be within 72 hrs, that was on Nov 15th. As of today, Dec 22, I have yet to see a dime of this money back, and now she has changed her phone number so that I can no longer contact her. I have called the OPP and they took a statement from me, but cannot charge her, my only option is to take her to small claims court to try and recover the money, which I am doing, the lawyer is free to me for 4hrs through CAW legal services. My heart has been broken and my x-mas is ruined, and my mortgage payment nearly bounced because of this praying mantis. Her profile was removed from this site on Sept 18th, she was known as DE05. You are a very pretty woman, Kazz1. I hope this never happens to you or anyone on this site, you see they dont always ask for this before they meet you, they wait until they do and gain your trust and then screw you. Luckily I have my pets which are my life now, 9 cats and 4 dogs, three are rescue kittens which would have all died if I had not taken them in and got them medical treatment. If you ever see this person come back on this site or any others, please warn the guys to stay away from this vermon, thanks Shane. | |
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Posted: 12/23/2007 11:16:18 AM | I haven't been approached like that on here....but I've seen the Nigerian stuff in the junk area of one of my emails accounts, which I don't hesitate to delete. The delete button is a wonderful thing!  | |
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Posted: 12/23/2007 7:28:29 PM | I got something similar from a girl who messaged me on another site. At first, she made it seem like she wanted to talk to me, even though she claimed to live three hours away. I figured it would go no more than chatting, so I talked to her. She then said she'd send me more pics, so I said "whatever" and kept playing along, trying to give her benefit of the doubt.
I read the e-mail, and it's some story about her dad being an oil contractor, an ex-husband who has some of the money, an African guy she met online and wants the money, and something about some safety deposit boxes in her name. She then told me that I should call her, so she can send me the boxes and "we can share the money". This was early-November and she still occasionally IMs me to see if I'm online. I ignore them every time.
I wonder how many people have lost money because they thought they were getting "true love"? | |
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Posted: 12/24/2007 6:21:17 AM | Oggers wrote : -
So what makes me suspicious ? Well, I have known a lot of Dutch and Belgian people, for years, and I know how they speak and write English, the phrases they use, and so on... her mails just dont "sound" Dutch .. they dont usually start a mail with " Hello Dear" ....
This just in from my internet lover ....
" i long for you everyday and night and i hope things work out soon for us to be together forever baby.i spoke with my momma in Holland when i called her and we talked a lot about you.i was trying to let her know how much we have gone so far and how much i would want to meet you in the nearest future if the finance is there.I told her allot about you and our desire to see each other.i also told her that i would want her support to be able to visit you during my long break which is coming up soon.she knows you miss me so much too."
notice the reference to 'if the finance is there' ... its coming , I can feeeeeeel it
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Posted: 12/24/2007 6:40:13 AM | | Yeah! Not on this site, but on another, i got to know this lady really well, she said she would send me a check and that i should get cash for it and send the cash to her via Western Union. She said the banks there didnt accept such big checks, i knew it was a scam so i had her send the check. Brought it to my bank and had them check it out. It was bad of course. So i proceded to tell her about it, and i got a couple of nasty mails back saying that us americans cant do anything right, stuff like that. I just laughed, turned her into the site and havent seen her since. A person got to be so careful on these sites. | |
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Posted: 12/24/2007 8:04:41 AM | WOW
You people sure have a lot of trouble with the scams, I also have seen most of them and a few I don't want to talk about but there are ways to find out info on people that in this state are free (I am a Private Investigator ) and some checks do cost money ( special data bases )Stay with local people, they are easy to check out and you might get a surprise on some of them. The ladies I have met locally on POF have been great. all are what they put on there ptofile and I have made some really good friends and had a lot of fun dating on this site and who knows hopefully 2008 it will be my year to meet Ms wounderful and get off here.
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Posted: 12/24/2007 12:03:21 PM | Here's the easy part - don't lend money to anyone you're not married to or related to... and... some of those you'd want to think twice about as well.
As far as money changing scams, there's an old saying... 'you can't scam an honest man'... | |
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Posted: 12/24/2007 2:19:26 PM | | I just joined this site, so I can't talk about this site - yet. But all I ever get are scammers. Match.Com was the first. I was hit with the Nigerian scam on that one, then PerfectMatch and SinglesNet.com were next. I haven't found anyone to be legit so far. I've been fortunate not to lose out on any money. I caught their games just in time. I know what to watch out for now, so I can't say the experience has been heartbreaking, just educational. | |
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Posted: 12/24/2007 2:25:37 PM |
I just joined this site, so I can't talk about this site
welcome :)
I think that you 'll find that there are a lot of good people on this site . Sure there are a few dodgy ones too ( as with any site ) , but i thnk you'll be ok if you now know what to watch for !
happy christmas !
Ogs | |
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Posted: 12/25/2007 12:13:35 AM | I was hit up for money by someone I met through this site. We had our "3 dates" in May/June 2006. In March 2007, she tried to extort me for the amount that was due for her home's property taxes (half due February 1). She did eventually pay it after April 10 - with the 10% late penalty. However, as I didn't cave in, she made good on her threat of reporting a false crime to her local police. However, as she was stupid enough to do two things: send part of the extortion threat via e-mail, and post a statement to the PoF forums (which got removed for violating the TOS - but I did get a printed copy) which contradicted certain facts that she told the police. I was able to turn things around and have her investigated and myself cleared. It gets better: Apparently, although unknown to me until this past April, she is an "escort" (and she still has some profiles up this week on escort sites). The combination of her extortion attempt with prostitution qualifies her for RICO treatment (either federal, or my state's equivalent), should any aspect of this actually end up going to trial. Her current "boyfriend," probably her pimp, was an accomplice to her extortion and apparently shot the nude photos she used on the escort sites. In total, I've reported her for 5 state level and 2 related federal felonies.
Just before I met her in person in May 2006, she deleted her profile for a day (and restored it the next). She said that she had become angry at a less-than-kind response she received from another male PoF'er, but I suspect that he may have been her "mark" prior to me. It was also strange that on our 3rd date, she wouldn't let me take a photo of her that included her face - but I thought that she was just being camera-shy. Now, I know better - she didn't want a face-photo in my possession that I could give to the police to identify her. I also found that the text of her profile was word-for-word identical with that from another dating site for someone in another state (and time zone). Although that other profile has a different person pictured, the police have a copy of it too. Almost everything that she said to me appears to have been a lie.
The hardest part for me is that I had actually cared and "gave a damn." | |
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Posted: 12/25/2007 1:46:13 AM | | Dreamrequest, that is not a fair saying at all. so if I were to foolishly fall for these scams I must not be an honest man?? how is that possible that I am not allowed to be that stupid or too trusting? Yes I was stupid enough to fall for the nigerian scam a couple of years ago. and I have learned from it. It may take me longer then others to figure things out but I usually do. I am no longer falling for these and I flat out tell these people to find someone else to scam. | |
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Posted: 12/25/2007 2:02:23 AM | | Scammers are the reason that I changed my profile. The header use to say "Honesty Required". Now it says "Liars & Con Artists Wanted". I figured a little reverse psychology might work. I state on my profile that anyone who is looking to scam a woman can skip to the next profile because they aren't going to get money, access to my bank account, the deed to my home or anything else from me. It's a shame that their are so many dishonest people in this world. How they can live with themselves is totally beyond me. | |
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Posted: 12/25/2007 2:36:26 AM | Hi Shane
Im sorry to hear of that lowlife that took your money. All I can say is "what goes around comes around" and I hope she chokes on whatever she buys with it!
You seem like a really genuine guy and I wish you all the best, in finding that one true person that will not take you for a ride! Obviously there are plenty of them out there!
Take care, and look after you! | |
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