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ORIGINAL: ccc3333

First things first i'm not sending anyone any money.... but... i was recently taken for quite a journey....

So... i contact this lady on CM, who is blonde. She claims her ex dom was over seas and she recently ran away because he tried to share her with his superior.... so she is "in a hotel" with no belongings in a foreign country, a US citizen... says her family only paid 2/3 of the plane ticket and wanted me "the alleged next master to be" (we chatted for a mere 2 hrs.... knew her for one day), to cover the remaining 350 and swore up and down i would be picking her up from airport and this and that. She wanted me to send it western union or money gram to someone in NY, an alleged "travel agent", however i email this guy and he is responding to me on a gmail, i ask a few qualifying questions and he is dodgy... she on the other hand is on ymsngr, with no family in the us, except her grandma, and she gave me a number that didn't even work... i'm just wondering if anyone has ever had a similar situation. I can see this working really well against people who didn't know any better... she was even dangling the fact that she makes a lot of money etc... and she would be making 10 grand next month on a job in LA, and she has all this and that... was a total hustle... it was just unfortunate that she wasn't able to be real... i asked her for 1000 diff things to verify her story, she couldn't produce a shred of anything...

Anyone else had a similar wild goose chase experience (oh and her typing was very broken english, not like a US citizen at all, native one at least)

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ORIGINAL: AthenaSurrenders
I am fairly sure he sent the money anyway.

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ORIGINAL: MadameM4U

I believe we will all, at some point in time, encounter a scam. Apparently, it is amazingly easy to separate some people from their money and scammers cast a wide net to find the ONE.

I was talking with a gentleman whom I knew at the beginning was a scammer but I was playing along to see how long it would take for him to actually ask for money. That may sound silly but it is a fun game and something I do on occasion. When the time came and he actually made his impassioned plea I told him I was surprised how long it took him to ask, as I didn't think he would invest so much of his time prior to that point when most scammers spent far less time chatting before they proffered their "crisis" situation with which only I could be their savior.

He laughed and said he had been enjoying our interactions and again asked for the money. I laughed and again said "No" and asked him how many other women he was stringing along at that particular point in time and he replied "Around a hundred" which prompted me to ask "People actually fall for this?", to which he replied, "I make a very nice living off the kindness of strangers". I then told him my sob story of being unemployed and raising 2 daughters, about to lose my house in Foreclosure and my vehicle was falling apart, yada, yada, yada, and asked him for a "loan" until things turned around for me since he made such a nice living. I never heard from him again.

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ORIGINAL: RumpusParable


Multiple times on this board, we have had really gullible people come on and ask about what they (oh or what their "friend") should do about getting a message on the other side here from a slave who is trapped in an evil dom's house/basement, can't contact the cops on her own, is being kept from all contact with others and abused... but went out the other day to the store and for some unexplained reason is able to access the internet easily and regularly but can't contact any sort of local authority....

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ORIGINAL: crazyml

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ORIGINAL: ccc3333

First things first i'm not sending anyone any money.... but... i was recently taken for quite a journey....

So... i contact this lady on CM, who is blonde. She claims her ex dom was over seas and she recently ran away because he tried to share her with his superior.... so she is "in a hotel" with no belongings in a foreign country, a US citizen... says her family only paid 2/3 of the plane ticket and wanted me "the alleged next master to be" (we chatted for a mere 2 hrs.... knew her for one day), to cover the remaining 350 and swore up and down i would be picking her up from airport and this and that. She wanted me to send it western union or money gram to someone in NY, an alleged "travel agent", however i email this guy and he is responding to me on a gmail, i ask a few qualifying questions and he is dodgy... she on the other hand is on ymsngr, with no family in the us, except her grandma, and she gave me a number that didn't even work... i'm just wondering if anyone has ever had a similar situation. I can see this working really well against people who didn't know any better... she was even dangling the fact that she makes a lot of money etc... and she would be making 10 grand next month on a job in LA, and she has all this and that... was a total hustle... it was just unfortunate that she wasn't able to be real... i asked her for 1000 diff things to verify her story, she couldn't produce a shred of anything...

Of course you knew it was a scam right from ... " so she is "in a hotel" with no belongings in a foreign country, a US citizen... says her family only paid 2/3 of the plane ticket" right? So the rest of the conversation was purely research, right?

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Anyone else had a similar wild goose chase experience (oh and her typing was very broken english, not like a US citizen at all, native one at least)

Hmm... Oh I've had a few promising starts turn out to be scammers, but not to the point of them becoming "wild goose chases"

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ORIGINAL: MadameM4U

I believe we will all, at some point in time, encounter a scam. Apparently, it is amazingly easy to separate some people from their money and scammers cast a wide net to find the ONE.

I was talking with a gentleman whom I knew at the beginning was a scammer but I was playing along to see how long it would take for him to actually ask for money. That may sound silly but it is a fun game and something I do on occasion. When the time came and he actually made his impassioned plea I told him I was surprised how long it took him to ask, as I didn't think he would invest so much of his time prior to that point when most scammers spent far less time chatting before they proffered their "crisis" situation with which only I could be their savior.

He laughed and said he had been enjoying our interactions and again asked for the money. I laughed and again said "No" and asked him how many other women he was stringing along at that particular point in time and he replied "Around a hundred" which prompted me to ask "People actually fall for this?", to which he replied, "I make a very nice living off the kindness of strangers". I then told him my sob story of being unemployed and raising 2 daughters, about to lose my house in Foreclosure and my vehicle was falling apart, yada, yada, yada, and asked him for a "loan" until things turned around for me since he made such a nice living. I never heard from him again.

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ORIGINAL: myotherself

Master got one yesterday.

Claimed she was underage, beaten and abused by her father and his brothers and kept prisoner in her house. Apparently the police would not believe her because the only evidence was a few bruises. She needed money to pay some random dudes to 'rescue' her from the house.

So Master asked her how he could get the money to her to pay these 'rescuers', and she said she'd meet him at a restaurant and he could hand over the cash then. [:D]

By this point he was laughing so hard he nearly did himself a mischief!

Anywho, she decided to go it alone when Master agreed to meet her, as long as he could bring along a Detective Inspector from the local constabulary... [8|]

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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt

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ORIGINAL: RemoteUser

Is this an affiliate of Rent-A-Ho?

That would be Save-A-Ho.

Shesh