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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 5:52:41 AM

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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)

I gave up trying to count the red flags in that story.

I don;t have similar experiences because I never engage the obvious scammers.

Among other things, nobody uses travel agents today.

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 6:07:05 AM

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I am fairly sure he sent the money anyway.

I'd be willing to bet half of my share of the money I'm getting from Nigeria at the end of the month that you're right about that.

He totally sent the money.

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 8:33:03 AM

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I haven't experienced anything like that on this site, but while we are house hunting we are currently looking for a place a little bit closer to my work. My husband is super lucky, we live 7 minutes from his work and 40 mins from mine. But I digress, while apt hunting I look on a popular site. I hate those big apt sites, they drive me nuts. So what the scammers do is they pick a house with a for sale sign on it. Somehow they get the ad in perfect english. When you email them about seeing the house, you get this crap about ignore the for sale sign on the house, you can only look in the windows (can't actually see the house), and when would you be willing to send them a money order (then they will send you the keys after they get the deposit). All of this in broken english and invariably there is a huge paragraph about how they are across the world (praise jesus), helping orphans (praise jesus) because they have been so blessed (praise jesus). Seriously, do people fall for this stuff? They are real houses in the area. I drove by one just out of curiosity, but it's pretty obvious it's a scam. You don't know until you actually contact them about seeing the house.

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 10:27:34 AM

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We talked to a "woman" who said her sister was kicking her out of the house and she could relocate to us from Phoenix that afternoon, if we would send her gas money.

"She" gave us enough little hints that we could Google the info and found out it was a guy who was like a rash all over the internet.

So, Master told "her" that he'd do one better...he'd drive out to Phoenix and pick her up. He started pushing for her name, address and phone number. S/he started freaking out trying to find excuses why he shouldn't do that. Then Master typed out the male scammers name and phone number we found on Google and he went "poof"!

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 10:39:45 AM

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Oooo, and I made mention of this in one of your other threads, OP:

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....

...while they can, of course, contact some random stranger in another country over the internet for money.

Also, with no word how, with being trapped in this house/basement with this evil dom, she's going to get the wired money if she's trapped in this house/basement. How it's going to get her out of this locked house if she somehow gets it. Why she can't use the internet to send an email or voicechat to the police. How she can reconcile the fact that she was out running some errand the other day with being locked/trapped with this evil dom. And so on and so on.

And yet, though we tell them we've heard This.Same.Scam. over and over and over on here, they won't believe us and keep going on about "but what if they're telling the truth???".

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 10:47:07 AM

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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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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 10:58:50 AM

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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.

Thanks for posting. I enjoyed the read. BTW there may be quite a few here on CM that had that I never heard from him again. experience. LOL

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 11:10:49 AM

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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....

Ohh, yes. The kidnapping threads...of which the "Tap, Tap, Tap" is the epitome.

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 3:35:50 PM

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Crazy, yes i was researching. seeing how far i could get her to go... lol... i had her give me her grandmas number, allegedly, i call and obviously its not a working number haha...

For the record everyone, this thread was for entertainment purposes... of course i knew it was a scam by the time i posted, i merely wanted to hear what other people had been through and interesting stories about em.

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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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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 3:52:53 PM

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Oooops....wrong thread. Pardon!

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/3/2013 11:56:19 AM

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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.

that is AWESOME!!! I've run into a huge amount of job scams this year while looking for work. This is the most disgusting scam in my opinion as it is working on people's desperation to make some freaking money!! Anyway, I love stringing them along and wasting their time.

I've run into some scams here - not money scams but weird stuff. Like multiple profiles with the same picture - and not anything glamorous or super hot, just a snapshot. Not sure what that one is all about. And I had one really funny one with a guy who tried to be two separate people at the same time online. lol. He was a dom with a superior and was sort of the go between for him to women like me. OH and the superior was his boss too. the funniest part was how the 'superior' would come online into the same chat window (by accident, which he had difficulty explaining away) but type in a different font and in all caps!!! I had a lot of fun with that one once I figured out the whole thing. LOL people really are weird.

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/3/2013 2:15:48 PM

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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.

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...

Best friend & smartest person i know got version of this on e-harmony. Guy was european but frequently in US. Worked in media satellites so traveled the globe. Supposedly during the world cup his daughter was kidnapped. He was told they would kill her if any police were called, he couldn't leave hotel room in case they called & had already maxed all his liquid assets, just needing 10-20,000 for the full amount. They had supposedly emailed, IM'd & skyped over 3 months when this happened. She has family in same industry there for same event & military contacts but called me heart broken about what to do. This angle was" will fly my daughter to you for safe keeping as soon as she's free (but he'd maxed cards for ransom)".
Watching her like this broke my heart because she was in legitimate anguish that someone she cared about was in harms way. The spell was broken when I asked her over & over for the same money with response finally of "no, fuck off" to which grinned & said, but you will send it to someone that you've only seen on the computer. Her face dropped.
I left her to decide with the caveat of "if you send this money send it to family who will deliver to hotel room, let military friend go as body guard for money". Another demand for western union soon came through. I'm happy to say she said no & guy as well as kidnapped daughter disappeared from the net (likely to do it again)

Confidence players will play as long as they get the money in the end. This is yet another reason I want to meet someone pretty quickly for coffee before getting super invested

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/3/2013 2:20:54 PM

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Is this an affiliate of Rent-A-Ho?

That would be Save-A-Ho.

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Its actually Captain Save-A-Ho hero of every slut & gold digger alive

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/3/2013 8:22:33 PM

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I'm still stringing her along for fun... lol... she is such a liar.

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