Fool me twice, shame on me! ( Archived) (37)

I am starting to believe that I may become the official scam magnet here at CS! Indeed, scamming is a serious problem all over the internet and I've ran into my share of them through the years. While I can avoid them, I figure I might as well have a little fun with them at times. So these are my stories and I'm stickin' to 'em... or is it, I stuck it to 'em. You decide.

Not too long ago, I wrote a site mail to a woman letting her know I was interested and wanted to get to know her better. She replied and since then, we've exchanged several emails and I found out she was actually living in another country and that was not a problem. Everything seemed to be going fine until one day she decided to drop the bomb on me.
She claimed she had a lot of money and needed my help to get her assets to safety. All I had to do was pay the shipping costs to have her sealed and coded cargo containing all her assets delivered to me, right to my doorstep. Once I received her cargo, she would email me the codes to unlock it, have me take out enough money and send to her so she could book a flight and join up with me...we would start a new life together with all her money. Oh, what a dreamy plan, I thought!

So, I replied to her and said it would be better if she wired enough money to me to cover the shipping cost, in which I would wire back to her shipping company. And while she was at it, to take out enough money to cover her flight as well. This way, her cargo would be safe and she could come here and unlock it herself! She has yet to reply back to me...oh, the pity of it all.

This next one is a killer classic...

I received a site mail from a young and beautiful woman who sounded very interested in me. She had liked what I stated in my profile, but I believe it was my profile picture that really hooked her. It tends to have that effect on some women, don't ya think?
Anyway, we had been exchanging emails daily for several weeks, and I found out that she was also in another country and not where her profile had originally claimed. Still, not a problem. Normally, she would send me different pictures of her and sometimes of her family in each of her emails. I mean, my hard drive now has a complete photo album of this woman and her family! The sad part is that she has no picture of me yet. Nope, nadda one.
Our cyber relationship had grown to the point where we were ready to advance to the next level...she is now wanting to come visit me and has a two week vacation coming from her work. All great plans have been carefully made but now she has run into a wee bit of a snag... She doesn't have enough money to cover her round-trip fare! So, she asks me if I would be willing to help her out and send her the money. Being the gentleman that I am, I replied stating that I would help her all I can.

I told her to go ahead a book a one-way flight to me instead, and I would cover her flight back home when her two weeks had ended. Once again, I await a long overdo reply. And here to think she claimed she would love me forever. Well, I guess to her, forever lasts for just a little while. I can't bear the pain!

Hey! I have new mail in my mailbox! Could it be scammerette number three? Time to see if I can have some more fun.....

Pointers? I think that's what they have been giving to me to keep my attention!
Now I can't get that Bob Seger song "Night Moves" out of my head...
...points of her own sitting way up high, well firm and high...

Oh, we don't want you to get banned...but you can show me the pic if ya like.

Actually, maybe it is a good idea if I change my profile pic. It may then detour those scammerette's!

Yep, they are everywhere and they come in a variety of story packages. I don't let them bother me and I NEVER send out money... Although the next one that wants to flood my hard drive with tons of pic's, asking for money, I may just send them a pic of my wallet and tell them to take as much as they need.