Posted by: Jagen ®
11/05/2006, 04:46:48
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I almost got hit with this one, good thing I remembered that nothing good ever came from Nigeria... This is different than the traditional get rich quick scam. This one preys on the lonely, preys on your heart. And that's why everyone needs to know about it. I subscribed to Match.com hoping to meet someone like they say in the commercials. a few weeks go by when I was contacted by a very pretty girl from Kansas USA, a few states away from me. She said she was Native American and by her photos she was... and a pretty one at that. I started to notice when we talked via Instant Message (Yahoo of course) she was using European words like "favourite, theatre, humour, colour, my mum" That was my first indication something was up. I figured I'd check into her back story. The college she listed in her profile, her home town etc. She did her homework. She knew a lot about what she posted in her profile. I of course was pretty happy that such a lovely woman was actually interested in me so I went with it. I figured my luck had finally changed. However as luck would have it the Kansas area she supposedly lived in suffered a series of bad storms and tornadoes. I emailed her to see if she was okay, she said not to worry, she was actually in Africa on business buying antiques. Now remember this entire story was taking place over several weeks. At first she never asked for anything, she was hooking me big time. At the time I had no reason to believe she wasn't who she said she was. In hind sight I realize how dumb I was, but she kept telling me how amazing I was and I was such a good man. Trust me when you don't hear stuff like that then suddenly get it, you're going to listen and fall for it. A few more days go by and at this point I figured I'd really met someone worth while. Then came the problem, she lost her passport while in Africa. I told her to go to the US embassy and they'd help her get back to the US. She told me that they reissued her a passport but she missed her flight. (Surprise!) At this time I KNEW that it was a scam. However she still didn't ask for money. She kept saying stuff like "What am I going to do?" Every solution I came up with, she had a sad story about how it wasn't going to work. Finally came the request... "I will send you a cheque for $4500 USD via Western Union. Cash the cheque and send me back $2000, you can keep the rest until I get back." I feel so sorry for the people who actually fall for this. It's not from greed like most of the Nigerian scams, she was playing with love and emotions. Well, not me! So I figured I'd humor her a bit... I agreed to the exchange. Now here's the funny part. She said I'd need to send her a few hundred dollars to cover shipping costs. At this point I was so upset that my time was waisted, I was only looking for love after all, that I confronted her.
She grew very defensive and laid the guilt on pretty thick, "I thought you trusted me? I thought you were a good guy?" I ended it quickly, I was so sick of the lies and the small amount of my heart that I spent on this scammer that I reported her to Match.com and blocked all her emails and IMs. She's since been banned from Match.com, but I did find a new profile online, now she's claiming to be from Salt Lake City.
As my dad always told me, "Beware of beautiful women, especially if they're interested in you." He was right. Be careful, they go after your wallets and now your hearts!
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Posted by: glen canale ®
11/05/2006, 21:05:39
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Interesting as I wonder if I am in the same boat as you. Young woman, livesin London, had to go down to Nigeria because her father dies and left her money from properties, she is getting the run a round from them, I offered her a free plane ticket and she refused, saying that she needed to stay there and finish this up with the officals. I told her don't even think about bringing the money here to the US or transfering it to my account as that won't work. She is cute, young, expresses undying love and affection, but who knows. What do you think, she hasen't asked for money yet.
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Posted by: Jagen ®
11/05/2006, 23:06:10
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I would be careful, if they were legit... you see, everything you do, the help you offer, will work for them. But as you said, she refused your help. Most of the time the help you offer will not work and then they come up with an alternative. That alternative is the scam. Isn't it interesting that they just happen to have very bad things happen to them as soon as they meet you?
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Posted by: glen canale ®
11/06/2006, 00:39:39
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Not sure as she claims she has been down there for 6 months trying to get this done and wants it over with so she can leave there. Claims she is about to give it up and meets Monday with the prson whi will make the final decision on her money. I have already told her I am not spending anything nor opening up some account. She claims she will have the minister of housing call me, but I figure that could be anyone. It's hard as you want to believe their story, but I don't know. This has been going on for 2 weeks now.
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Posted by: Mikebb00 ®
11/08/2006, 12:36:41
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I encountered a similar experience on MATCH.COM 11/06 with a 29-year old girl located in Oklahoma City. She mentioned she lost her parents at age 5 and her grandparents during Hurricane Katrina and she's all alone. I mentioned to her twice that I would be more than happy to drive to Oklahoma City to meet her, both times she avoided this conversation and I started getting suspicious - she refused to give me her phone number. Another thing that caught my eye that something doesn't look right is how certains words are spelled: "favourite", "honour". This sounds too real to be true, no way... This is one of the email messages:
"i still've my return ticket though it's with the hotel,but as soon as i pay i would've it back and leave,the name of the hotel is Gloria Hotels And Suites,i was owing over a thousand dollars before,but after selling my clothings,shoes and bags i was able to pay a large part of the bills and now the balance i need to get paid and i can leave is $526."
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Posted by: Cindy ®
01/19/2007, 18:57:11
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I am currently dealing with a guy with the same story. Said he lived in NJ then suddenly was flying to Nigeria for work. Suddenly he's stranded because he can't cash his travelers checks and the hotel kicked him out. He is wanting me to send money via western union. Yea right! These people are sick. I have a second guy from Perfectmatch.com setting up the same type of scam! And we thought dating would be scary! Who would have imagined this!
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Posted by: Sharon Kuhn ®
05/20/2007, 13:31:58
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I am here for a friend. She has the EXACT same story. Does the name Gary Glenn ring a bell? He has sent her $10000 in American Express traveler's checks to cash and wire him the money in Nigeria.
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Posted by: Jocelyn ®
01/14/2007, 23:25:54
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I got hit with one too recently. I had been chatting with this guy online and after about a month I gave him my cell number. He then started claimed he wanted to come and visit me. He then was starting to ask me for money. I was foolish enough to send him some money then I stopped but he kept trying; I got angry and wanted him to pay for my phone bill he acted real sweet and promised he would and sent me counterfeit money orders. I took them to the post office because I was suspicious and then I changed my cell number, and blocked his email and the worst part was he would give me a sob story like he would be thrown out of the hotel he was at. he always had sob story. Did you report your to anyone??
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Posted by: Brenda Drake ®
03/14/2008, 21:19:40
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I was scammed by a "widower" that moved to Iowa from California. Was a geologist. We conversed for a few weeks and he went to Benin. He bought some diamond and gold and then couldn't pay all the taxes and duty. He got most of the money but needed "$500" more. He promised all kinds of undying love. He never came out and asked for the money, but I finally broke down and offered and of course the next day never heard another word. I contacted MATCH.com, but I doubt they do anything...Of course he picked the money up in Nigeria. Everything seemed so right, even though my head said don't...... Beware of anyone, especially if you don't meet them in person first
Shame on them to pick on us loving, trusting people.
The profile was iowaman1963
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Posted by: jacki allen ®
03/21/2008, 03:25:53
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I met a guy named JEFF JOHNSON on match.com.
He told me his parents were killed in an auto accident, and his girlfriend dumped him right after...so he moved to California with a friend...then that friend died, so he is all alone and is now working in Nigeria as a security officer. He avoided many questions I had, but basically roped me into thinking he was the "one".
He turned his profile off after only a couple days...saying he only wanted to talk to me.
I was leary when he said he "loved" me, even though we had never met.
He said he didnt like me still having a match..com profile, so he asked for my "PASSWORD", so he coud go shut it off!! I honored his request, but I turned it off myself. Thinking back, what was he going to do with my personal password, etc?
The emails went on for months until he said he could leave Nigeria now and thought he would stop in Vegas first (where I live).
We made plans, but he never gave me airline info. A week later, he says his boss already went back tot he States and no one will vash his American check. He needs $250 for BTA fees. Otherwise known as "Basic Travel Allowance". I told him I could not send money because I didnt have it and I never met him. He got angry and said things like "You are the only one I can turn to" and "How could you think that of me"?
He stopped emailing me. I happened to mention this story to a friend I met on match.com yesterday. He says this is a scripted scam and suggested I look it up, which is what brought me here! How sad someone will play with yoru heart that way! I was actually preparing for his visit and had shut my match,com subscription off for him!
I decided to see what would happen, so I emailed him saying I earned the $250 for him. He then asked for an ADDITIONAL $50 for a taxi!
He wants me to wire him the money via "Western Union" on Friday. I am playing along to get the info and report him.
This got me thinking, so I looked back at some other emails. From men I decided not to persue at the time. Their emails were scripted the same way. For some reason or another, they are in Africa. Those teo never got the chance to ask for money, but they did do the "I love you" thing and shut their profiles off...saying the did it for ME, but really, they were just getting the free 3 days, to eet someone stupid like me...praying on someone who is vulnerable and looking for that special someone. How dare they use people like us. They will get their in the end. Karma!
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Posted by: unknown ®
05/04/2008, 20:35:36
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I had also been contacted by a guy on match.com. His details said he was a widower and that he had an 8 year old daughter. His wife had died 3 years ago and his parents died when he was 2 and he was raised b his aunt. I received an email from him through match to say this was his email address and to contact him directly. Which like a fool I did. We spent hours on MSN in a couple of days, where with hindsight I realised now that he was finding out as much info about me as possible. I was a little worried because he seemed too good to be true. He sent me pictures, and his profile came off line within a day or two and like you he said he doesn't want anyone else now that he found me. He wanted me to come off line too and asked for my password which I gave him like a fool I thought it was so sweet that he wanted me for himself. He said he was currently in Benin finishing of an architect job and would be back in the UK in a couple of weeks. He gave me his mobile number which was I later found out to be from Nigeria. Then he claimed that his mobile wasn't working and could I send him a new one, he wanted a new iphone, I started to feel uneasy asked for more pictures, which he sent, but when he rang there was something about his accent that didn't seem right. He demanded I send him a phone and DVD's etc. Then one morning I got a txt to say he and his daughter were really ill the doctor had been called. Later that day I got another text to say they were both being rushed to hospital. `Then finally at the end of the day I got a call from him saying that his daughter needed an urgent treatment and if I didn't send him £2000 his daughter woudl die. I aid I didn't have that kind of month, and after a lot of abuse and threatening he said send me £500 then. I put the phone down. A couple of days later I tried to get into my hotmail account and I couldn't the password had changed, I realised it was him so I rang him up and said what was he playing at. He said he wanted money and once he had that he would give me my new password. He went in and changed my match.com password as well. He read out some emails from my box just to prove that he was in it. I reported it straight away to the police who could do nothing, to match.com and if any of you have tried that it is really hard to get to anyone and explain the seriousness of what has happened. And the to get hold of microsoft to help was a totl nightmare. I know have access to my hotmail account again and all the other things that he changed. But he has my home address and I like a lone and it is very unsettling and scarey not knowing what these people are going. His name was LUKE HARDY but he also mentioned HARRISON SMITH his email address is lkhd20m@hotmail.co.uk and his mobile number is 002348025748676
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Posted by: Gary ®
05/04/2008, 23:44:45
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I have had 5 different women in the last 6 weeks all gunning for the same crap. They get my info from Myspace and then we talk a bit on Yahoo IM and they try to run their little game. I had one "Faith_n1976 at Yahoo actually send me a check on a fraudulent Chase Manhattan account and I spoke to Chase bank and they were hip to the whole deal. Is this country so messed up that we have to find women online that are like magnets drawn to us and they are not even who they say they are. I find it strange that Nigerai of all the places in the world for scams to come from would host this. I now find the whole thing amusing to me and actually pity their stupidity. I am glad I had this experience with a chick from Russia and found the Russian Blacklist before all this Nigerian crap. I have now started to report all this to Yahoo and Myspace. Myspace seems to have their game together and they delete the profiles before it gets too far along.
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Posted by: mi dixie normus ®
05/11/2008, 13:49:49
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how can anybody fall for their crap!? I love it when they email me from match. I pay them back with an attached web bug in my email that relays their ISP, time they opened my email, how long they read my email, what browser they used, and their gps location. Also have been repaying them with a nice little computer virus. I like to lead them along and tell them Im wealthy, and willing to help anyway I can. They leave thinking they will be getting thousands of US dollars in the mail, LOL! Im surprised how stupid they are. They all are running the same scam! sick parents or grandparents. They live or are visiting in Nigeria. They grew up in UK, blah, blah, blah. If u hear UK or Africa, run away. Ive been hit up by probably 6 scammers in a couple of weeks. Im a good looking guy and have had plenty of interest from legit women so I was never really vulnrable to the scam, but I wanted to stop in and let you all know its a bunch of crap. It makes me smile knowing my viruses have caused them some serious set backs on their computers. Hahahahaha. suckers!
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Posted by: webdesdev ®
05/12/2008, 04:16:17
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YA that was a nice..
I also subscribed to Match.com hoping to meet someone. i had get connected by one UK girl she wass so pretty now we are normally chat with each other on yahoo and share things between us.. and enjoying it..
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Posted by: Brookng ®
05/13/2008, 12:07:30
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So i have not been scamed yet, but i have been thinking it was a scam from the beginning...Her name is Helda and she is from South Dakota or something, but is in Nigeria for something, but she sent me pictures of herself because i didn't believe her...the girl in the photos looked really familiar to me, so i asked my roomate who is on the internet non-stop for work and he goes, "dude that is kate from Katesplayground.com, basically a pornstar. So i was like hmmm...lets see where this goes...i confront this person and tell them i know who it is in the photos, but the only problem that i have is that the photos she or he sent me are private, like they look like ones that are not professionally done or anything. After a while, this person confesses...NICE...but my glory was short lived when she/he tells me that she is this "kate" and that she didn't want to tell me any of this yet. Blah, blah, blah, after trying to get some more info out of this person they went to away status..."gone to bed" naturally acceptable since it was almost 3am in Nigeria, today i wrote this person and this is what they said"I got to go right now , I will talk to you later. I am sorry to curt this short... but i am busy with work besides i have lot going on right now... Have a great day..." Overall this is kinda entertaining to me, so i am going to play it out and see where it goes...i will post later with details.
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