Re; KZ

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Apr 8, 2008 at 20:05

It is indeed sad to see all the experiences of women with Moroccan men on here, but it all pretty much boils down to meeting over the internet. And it doesn't even have to be on a dating site. You could swap the ethnicity and gender and the fact that people meet on-line still has much of the same consequences.

The thing about DATING scammers is that they aren't afraid to talk about how honesty is important and how stupid it is that people date just to get greencards. The media often reports on Nigerian 419 scams, which are fake lotteries, and those scammers are afraid of confrontation and will bend over backwards. Not so with dating scammers. And if you press them to far on specific questions, they may ignore them or tell you that you are being invasive and rude.

KZ, a lot of men that women have dated on this forum come across as nice and sweet at first, and I've been on here for a few months and it seems like EVERYONE thinks they've found the one or two who aren't scammers.

Are you risking too much by going to visit him? Well, if you meet in public, are responsible and take care of yourself and if you let him cook for you (watch him and don't eat anything he doesn't eat), your personal safety would statisicially be okay, but most of the time it seems like a waste of time and money above anything else. Most of these scams are just a finanical headache and sadly, whether its Moroccan men or Nigerian women, most folks don't learn until a good chunk of cash is gone. I know this personally, because I meet a woman who lived an hour away on-line and it happened to me.

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