Do they REALLY "go to school" to trick you? My story

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Mar 17, 2008 at 20:05

In a way, yes, but it's not like school, it's more like work experience. When you do the same thing over and over again for days, weeks, months, years, and people FALL FOR IT, you adapt. Especially when the people in charge threaten you if you don't make progress, ie steal money from hard-luck Westerners.

It's actually a general sales technique, but a sale is really just two sides, stories, if you will, and when it comes RIGHT down to it, either THEY are going to believe YOU, or you are going to believe them and buy what they have.

What a lot of scammers do, especially the ones after money, or are, I should say, is in computer labs.
I actually saw some undercover footage of this in Nigeria, where men were pretending to be women (they stole pictures off of a Hawaiian models site) and were creating fake profiles and trying to find people on-line via Yahoo Messenger and MSN.

These labs are almost like call centers, you know, like when you call a 1-800 number and order something or call your credit card company. That's really what it's like.

When I went "undercover" to root out some of these folks, I noticed by how they talked to me, that I wasn't talking to women, I was actually talking to men.

So, if you are meeting someone on-line, even with pictures and a webcam, it may not even be them, or even the same gender. I once had a Russian and a Surimanese woman contact me, and they had pictures of themselves, and even family. But it was all a rouse.

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