tsatske
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Okay, if you really think about, Scammers have a job. just like the rest of us, only suckier. Most of them did not have the good fortune to be born in the US/Europe, and they are just trying to make a living. I mean, really, can't you work up a little sympathy for a girl?
The problem is, there is apparently no online school of scamming. I say this, because, if there were, they might be BETTER at it. I mean, really, if this is their chosen career - most of them SUCK at it!
So this thread is to offer advice. Come on, give it up! You all have some - help some poor, underprivledges girls (and occasional guys) out! tell them how to do a better job at the job they have!
Here's my number 1, top advice offering: Do not try to claim to be a native speaker of a language where you can barely put two words together. Really, I'm gonna notice. And the online translation fish are not really that good, not anywhere near good enough to pass you off as a native speaker.
OTOH, America is a country of immegrants, and most Americans love thinking of themselves as eclectic, contential, well-rounded, open-minded, cultured individuals. Just admit to where you are from, and if you really feel this will go better if you are stateside, claim to have moved here a year or so ago. really.
Although, honestly, it might just go better if you admit where you are from. You will get points for honesty and your intended mark gets the thrill of having an international penpal.
Advice #2: If you are going to insist on passing yourself off as being stateside, choose your location carefully, and research it extensively, know as much as you can about it. Small towns work best - if you claim you are from a big city, too many people will live there, be from there, have relitives there, have been there on vacation... it's just going to be a mess. And, whereever you say you are from, when you meet someone from there, living there, with relitives there, who was stationed there in the military, who went to school there, who has vacationed there.... dump then and start the search for a new mark. Know matter how much you have taught yourself about your chosen fake hometown, You can not convince a Martian you have been to Mars. This is not going to work.
Case in point (of the general above rule, not specificlly the last portion so much), recent scammer chatting up Master, when he asked where she was, said, 'Connors, NY, Sir'. since she was clearly not an English speaker, He asked where she was born, but she insisited :'Connors, NY.' So He called me in the room - had I ever heard of Connors, NY? No? oh, well - He googles it. It is BETWEEN Manhatten and Queens. I looked at Master. Oh, no, no, no... I have friends who are NewYorkers. Never met a New Yorker who EVER mention what tiny little township they are from - NYCers are very borrough-centric. They are either from NYC - or they tell you the borrough. This smells like Friday at the Parish Cafe.
So Master says to her, 'So, you are very near Queens?' and she says, 'What is Queens?'
That would be a mistake you could avoid, by taking some of my excellent advice above.
C'mon, helpful CM people - anymore helpful advice?
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