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Hi Rebecca

Were you scammed? If yes, for how much money?

I think he wants to kindly invite them to do something..indecent.


He's funny like that.



I can recognize it.

Haha..

He is.

Still: it's a 'no' question - he has us all here to invite for whatever-he-has-in-mind.

I am a scammer - if you send me 10 pounds, I will send you 20 pounds back...Oh, hang on...Erm...I DIDN'T SAY I WAS A GOOD SCAMMER!!!

They get no time from me! So no kindness is coming their way. I don't waste my time with them either. Life is too short to care about scammers. I delete the emails and messages.

Just watch. As the dollar falls and the US economy dries up, you will see more and more scammers in the states with highly sophisticated scams that will catch lots of people.

The Nigerian scammers are almost comical, in their ineptitude.
The US version will be hi-tech and highly polished.

I had a scammer once, and he emailed me at the end of it all admitting he was a scammer. He said he had never met a woman so stubborn, and wanted to know if we could really meey and be friends. I asked him for money, and he stopped e-mailing me.

Just be careful...there are policies to protect scammers...

I would give the scammer false information that would lead to their arrest in hind site.

Not only is it ok to abuse scammers, it is everybodies duty!
The more people who put these thieves through the wringer, the less time & resources they will have to scam somebody else. I have no sympathy for able bodied men who sit all day in an internet cafe in Lagos conning gullible people out of their hard earned money when they can be out making an honest living by actually producing something like food or goods or digging a well so their own poor countrymen living in the rural areas have clean water to drink and bathe in. Instead these lazy bastards spend half the day trying to con people all over the world into sending them millions of dollars which usually goes to buying shiny new cars and paying for prostitutes.

And you worry about hurting their feelings?

If prostitution is the oldest profession.Con artist are the second oldest.
The nigerians might be comical but still make millions of it and invest it back in slavetrading.
I dont mind that this topic comes back.
Awareness is of utmost import these days.

I think that we should not go crazy about reporting people...unless we know that they are scammers. Reporting people just because you are angry with them is childish.

Well, right, I didn't think so...

Yet, about every thread you started is about scammers here.

True on both accounts.

I think we give scammers too much time and energy. Less is sometimes more!

So what did you chat about for 10 minutes?

Once only I stupidly gave my email to one and when I stopped emailing back and blocked him, he kept coming back with
different email addresses!

I used to feel sorry for them until I realised what a big
business it is.

Though they often portray themselves as individuals. It's more likely to be a well organised team. Who know from vast experience just how to push the right buttons, and make you feel simpathy.
All they care about is how they can persuade you to part with your money. Or how they can coerce you into helping them move their own, if they are laundering cash.
Don't be fooled into caring. Because they certainly don't care about you.
Believe me. I speak from bitter experience. And having learned my lesson the hard way.

It depends what kind of mood I´m in....

I just ignore them and if by some chance they slip through the cracks and message me, I usually just tell them... I'm not interested, go find someone else to scam...

Here's a horror story for you. This is not from this site and I've removed all last names etc so as not to violate the TOS.

Dear Sir

I wish to report a scammer to you who is laundering money. I am a retired schoolteacher of 68, divorced and living alone. Last year I joined a website 'Russian Ladies' for one month and I imagine my profile is still on the net. I have been contacted four times since my membership expired. I have been scammed by two of these ladies.

Lyubow xxxxxxxx aka Luba contacted me around Xmas last year saying she was looking to meet a man from Perth as she was going to Perth in the near future to visit her girlfriend Oksana and her husband who were paying for her trip. Nearly every day I would receive an e-mail from this lady with each one claiming to like me even better. I was getting to like Luba and was looking forward to her arrival in Perth. She claimed Oksana and her husband were deaf and dumb and therefore had trouble communicating with banks, etc. She asked me if I could help with a money transfer from Oksana and her husband. The money was to be transferred into my account and I could open up a new account if I wished for the transactions. I checked with my bank on the safety of this procedure and was assured that they could not get access to my other accounts. I went ahead and opened the account and sent the details to Luba. The transfer of $1900 was made which I duly sent to her by Western Union. I then closed the account thinking that I wouldn't need it again. The following day I received another e-mail thanking me for the money and saying that Oksana was transferring another $2000. I quickly went to the bank and reopened the account. The second transaction was not made as the bank must have had a report of a customer losing money from his account. I had a telephone call from the bank a little later saying that a fraud had taken place and the money had been stolen from another person's account. I then sent all the details and e-mails I had on Luba to the fraud section of the bank.
Would you please place this person on your black list. I have attached two e-mails and a photo. I hope this will suffice.

Yours sincerely
XXXX

This "luba"