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Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:26:03 PM

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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)

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:31:44 PM

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You can see that working with someone with an IQ over 80 or so? I can't. I'd have been out as soon as the "stuck in a hotel..." whatever the fuck is going on there I don't need it in my life.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:38:49 PM

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You can see that working with someone with an IQ over 80 or so? I can't. I'd have been out as soon as the "stuck in a hotel..." whatever the fuck is going on there I don't need it in my life.

Lol i know... she would of had a better chance if her english wasn't broken, but it scared me to think that there are much much better than her, who really could get some guys really easily... they run the same game on every prospect... and she has a profile on collar me..

scary stuff.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:44:03 PM

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Well, I had a young black woman who was orphaned and trapped in Nigeria whose multi-millionaire father had left her something like $71mil that she couldn't access herself from inside the country due to the evil society that had killed him being able to track her down through it so she lived in a small hut and accessed the internet through the local pastor's house. If I would just send her something like $1000 and my name, bank account info, address, and social security number she would arrange to have the money transferred to me, then give me a 67% cut of it when she flew out of Nigeria to meet me using the money I sent her so we could get married and have children.

Then she sent me a follow-up email with more of this sob story when I pretended to be falling for it and attached a picture of a white woman standing in from of the Tivoli Fountain in Rome as her.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:45:00 PM

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No. It's not scary to me at all. It does seem to terrify you though... To the point of obsession. This is all you dude.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:45:29 PM

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Is this an affiliate of Rent-A-Ho?

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:47:05 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ccc3333

quote:

ORIGINAL: JeffBC

You can see that working with someone with an IQ over 80 or so? I can't. I'd have been out as soon as the "stuck in a hotel..." whatever the fuck is going on there I don't need it in my life.

Lol i know... she would of had a better chance if her english wasn't broken, but it scared me to think that there are much much better than her, who really could get some guys really easily... they run the same game on every prospect... and she has a profile on collar me..

scary stuff.

Sorry but she could have perfect english and the minute she said she was stuck in a hotel I would suggest she call someone who cares. People who are trapped in foreign countries don't usually have internet access and if they do I doubt they spend time trying to get strangers to send money.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:49:18 PM

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Oh, and I got almost the exact same one on another site....in fact, if I recall it may have been the exact same scam, it's been a while.

That one was sent to my *cat's* joke Tagged account... I wrote the email they gave me in cat-talk "mrow, mrow mrow mrow. NIgeria, mrow. Mrow-mrow. Money-mrow" and so on in paragraphs, just throwing in random words like that from the message they sent me.

Then, they sent me back a follow-up asking for all those same sorts of ID/account-access theft sort of details so I sent them that my name was (something like this):

Jonesy Cat (my cat's real name)
Mrow Bank
MrowMrow Mrow Street, Mrowr. 76588

Job: kitty

Things went quiet after that.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 9:51:20 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ccc3333

Anyone else had a similar wild goose chase experience

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam#Romance_scam

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 10:07:11 PM

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It had been at least 15 years since I got a genuine Nigerian Money Offer over the intertubes before CM. I was genuinely touched by the first one here. I tried to drag it out as long as possible, just to make the experience last (without, yanno, actually sending money anywhere).

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 10:08:04 PM

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Look at this CM profile for another warning example: ScammerReview
It lists many scam hints

Personally, I would have been gone to another profile at any of the following:
overseas
Western Union
asking for money
Several of the other clues you provided.

IF and when someone from across the US gets me that interested, I would be more likely to go to them and fetch them. I would have security in place such as safecalls, places of my choosing, etc.
I would never send money. Some of my ancestors called it a pig in a poke regardless of how you do anything out of your home area.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 10:27:35 PM

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For sure.. YAAY i got my first nigerian SCAM! :). had me for the first 5 min till she asked for money ... lol!

quote:

ORIGINAL: TimeLimited

Look at this CM profile for another warning example: ScammerReview
It lists many scam hints

Personally, I would have been gone to another profile at any of the following:
overseas
Western Union
asking for money
Several of the other clues you provided.

IF and when someone from across the US gets me that interested, I would be more likely to go to them and fetch them. I would have security in place such as safecalls, places of my choosing, etc.
I would never send money. Some of my ancestors called it a pig in a poke regardless of how you do anything out of your home area.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 11:01:39 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ccc3333

quote:

ORIGINAL: JeffBC

You can see that working with someone with an IQ over 80 or so? I can't. I'd have been out as soon as the "stuck in a hotel..." whatever the fuck is going on there I don't need it in my life.

Lol i know... she would of had a better chance if her english wasn't broken, but it scared me to think that there are much much better than her, who really could get some guys really easily... they run the same game on every prospect... and she has a profile on collar me..

scary stuff.

I don't know why you think it's "scary." Someone is running an obvious scam, and for some strange reason you felt compelled to start a thread asking about the scam, which is about the equivalent of asking, "If I hit myself on the hand with a hammer, will it hurt." And the answer is - no duh.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 11:24:03 PM

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Oh it's one of these 'trapped in a hotel overseas' type tales?

Thing is, the Government employs people known as diplomats and they tend to work overseas for the government in buildings known as embassies and consulates.

I'm not too sure how it is for Australians and Canadians, but if you're an American, British or Irish you can head for any local police station and they will get you to a consulate where you will receive help.

There's no need for anyone to go to a BDSM website and approach someone out of the blue.

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RE: Scam or not? - 12/31/2012 11:58:40 PM

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quote:

There's no need for anyone to go to a BDSM website and approach someone out of the blue.

Sure there is. They need the money

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 12:08:13 AM

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quote:

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?

quote:

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 2:12:03 AM

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Dude, if you're falling for scams, and it seems like you are falling for each and every one of them from what you're posting online, you REALLY need to get off the computer and start dealing with real life for awhile.

I think you might be better off back at plentyoffish dude, or at the bars again.

I keep wondering, when you check your regular email account and you get the "You have won a million dollars!" or the "It has just come to our attention that you have a long lost uncle who just passed away and has left you a sizeable estate in his will....", do you contact them thinking they are actually real?

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 2:18:10 AM

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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...

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 3:26:31 AM

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When I worked for the police answering emergency calls, I once spent a good ten minutes (it was a quiet day) arguing with a man who had received a letter saying he had won the Spanish Lottery. He needed to send £200 for the admin fee, and he would receive about a million in winnings. His friends told him it was a scam, but he didn't want to miss out on all that money if they were wrong!

Me: 'Yes sir, it's a scam.'
Him: 'Really?'
Me: 'Yes it's actually one of the most common types of scam. They send thousands of those letters out.'
Him: 'Are you certain?'
Me: 'Have you entered the Spanish Lottery?'
Him: 'Well.... no'
Me: 'Have you been to Spain recently?'
Him: 'No, but...'
Me: 'Do you have any close friends who recently went to Spain and bought lottery tickets in your name?'
Him: 'But the letter does look very official. It's on that thick paper and it says...'
Me: 'Why would the Spanish Lottery be giving out prizes to random English people, who didn't even enter? How would they get your details? How would they not go bankrupt, since people apparently don't need to pay into this lottery?'
Him: 'Yes I know what you're saying, but I'd feel really stupid if I were wrong and I missed out on a million pounds.'
Me: 'There is no million pounds sir. You send them the two-hundred, then another fee comes up you have to pay, and they keep taking and taking and you never get a cheque, because it's a scam.'
Him: '(very disappointed now) So you don't think it could be real then?'
Me: 'No sir. Do not send these people your money'

I am fairly sure he sent the money anyway.

Most scams exploit human greed. He thought he could get something for nothing. The 'romance' scammers play on people who are desperate by making them think someone young and beautiful is willing to jump into their lap. Your scam hit both, what with the new slave and the fact that she was incredibly rich (though apparently has very poor money management skills). People fall for them when they let their dick or wallet think for them.

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RE: Scam or not? - 1/1/2013 3:30:05 AM

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Is this an affiliate of Rent-A-Ho?

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