People desperate for a partner online are usually the target for the type of scam. Lonely women often fall prey. But these scammers do not care if you're a man or woman as long as you have what they want; money. Again, i got an email from a ''Russian'' girl who says she wants to come live with me in my country. Its funny right? My country! They have absolutely no idea where in the world the recepient of the email is, which is me. Like usual, i decided to go with the flow. I believe i still have the messages we sent each other, however, unless upon request, i'll just be briefly talking about it.
The first message came with a picture of a lady who says she wants to get to know me blah blah blah. Wondering how they know im a male? Well, I had an ad on craigslist, on the tv/show section, and posted as a male model looking for an agent. That's how they found me. How i know that's how? their first message was a craigslist reply, saying ''i went through your post and decided to reply you''. Usually, the first message doesnt say much. They just want to make sure its a working email address, not some bot. We got started. I replied and they sent me a long message full of grammar errors saying she's learning english and not really good at it. She would like to come to my country come live with me, get married and stuffs like that. They have no idea where ''my country'' is, and i told them im in Tokyo, Japan. I played along. and they kept writing, attaching pictures with every single message. Until the time for money came.
They sent a VERY fake passport page of the lady(you almost cannot tell its fake) saying she wants to go get her visa, and i should tell her the nearest airport close to me so she can arrange to land there. Along the line like it always is, she ran out of money and wanted me to send $700 to her through Western Union for emergency stuffs and fixing her flight ticket problems. I closed my eyes and ramdomly pressed the number keys on my computer until i pressed 10 of them(MTCN are usually 10 digits). I sent them this number and told them i sent more than they requested cos i'd like to see her asap. LOL. They were hopping from bank to bank trying to withdraw $1k i never sent. They replied within hours and said the number wasnt right. I told them i made a mistake and removed the last number for another one. Of course they had same thing. They requested i scan the receipt, and i told them i couldnt find it that i never keep western union receipts since i've never had problems with it. They emailed back and forth until they got tired.
I was having so much laugh emailing them. I really feel sorry for people falling for these types of scams. For some of us, its surprising how people fall for these scams. There are still people who fall for these cheap scams and they need to read blogs/articles like this one to enlighten them.
A number of ways of identifying a dating scam; they send you pictures almost with every email, they're quick to ''love'' you and there's always an excuse for one to send money to them.
Watch out for these people. DON'T BE A VICTIM!
