Tales from 1001 nights...

Submitted by Margaret (Poland), May 23, 2009 at 13:23

Firstly thankyou for all your replys, much appreciated!! I think i must have wrote it wrong, this egyptian man, has been working in Abu Dhabi for nearly 2 years, i see him on webcam when we talk, he lives in staff hotel accomodation, as he is a chef there.

That is what HE CLAIMS to be...most scammers, users claim to be chefs, managers, professionals with degrees, entrepreneurs...Honestly how many "chefs" do you know that fish for foreign women online proposing them marriage ?

He has not asked me for any money, he has money, as his wages are his own, he gets free accomaodation and food and laundry etc. He gets one month holiday a year,and then he goes back to egypt to see his family ie, mother brothers. He also says he has a apartment there, that he owns.

You dont know that...That is what he CLAIMS...Do you honestly thin that United Arab Emirates would need to fetch themselves a "chef " from Egypt ?

When i first started to talk with him nearly 4 months ago, he said his plan was to save money in abu dhabi, and go back to egypt and open a restaurant, as he is a chef, when the time for business is good! During the months we have been talking, he has said he wants to be with me, and all the usual talk about love,and would like for us to be together.

Why a successful "chef" with his own apartment, future restaurant owner have to fish for women online ? Chefs are usually busy men- so if they have their free-time they dont use it for babbling online about a marriage with a stranger...

Because i have MS, my health is not great, so i told him i would not go to egypt to live, only as a holiday maybe, and to be honest, its the last thing on my mind, i am happy here in uk. I also told him, i dont want marriage, or chidren, as i am 41, and been married before, and now divorced, and i am not going threw that again, and my views on marriage, are dont do it, just live together!!

So why do you even talk to this man ?

So if he wanted marriage, then dont waste your time with me, he said its ok, we can live togetherand maybe after 2 years, if we are still happy, then maybe we can do it then?? Then the visa question arose, he said if i dont want to go to egypt, then he would come to me, at that time he said he had worked in usa, he went there on a visiting visa, which his brother who was in the army at the time there,his friend who was also in army, arranged for him, basically got him visit visa??

LOL !!! Since when the USA army recruit Egyptian men ? Army is a favourite lying theme of the scammers...

He says that a work visa to the uk from abu dhabi will cost 20,000 uae,

I wouldnt be surprised if later he will ask you for this sum- because he already transferred the money to Egypt to buy a restaurant or his assets are frozen...

Yep...Your stories has all of the scammer favourite key-words: army, visa, chef, rich, USA, visa,visa,visa...

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