Scammers

Submitted by Fyldefolly (United States), Mar 31, 2009 at 11:01

To all who read entries on this blog.

Please take care from whom you take advice when encouraged to go further with holiday/internet romances, as there are many imposters on the internet. It is easy for your 'friends' to find you and then pose as someone else. ... It is in the scammers interest to know what is going through our heads. Go to a local internet place in Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco or other poor countries and you will see many young men (and sometimes women) searching through these sites looking for 'targets'.

If you want to know how many Nigerians do it; sign on to facebook, my space, MSN as a single, divorced widowed etc etc woman (without a picture of yourself) and see how many replies you get from men commenting on your beauty and professing undying love. They are usually from the US, have 'catalogue' good looks (as that's where they have copied 'their' picture from0 sometimes with a cute kid, have fantastic jobs, a yahoo e-mail adress etc etc etc. This is just one example.

It is great entertainment - reading the messages, looking at the photos and getting them deleted as imposters/scammers!

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