描述

• THEY MIGHT BE A SCAMMER IF…
  If you can answer YES to more than two of these you are dealing with a scammer.
  
  When Contact is First Made:
  
  They immediately want to get off the website and onto Yahoo IM or MSN IM
  
  Their profile seems to disappear off the website immediately after conversation begins
  
  They claim it was destiny or fate and you are meant to be together
  
  They immediately ask for your picture and they send you a picture of themselves
  
  They immediately want your address so as to send you flowers, candy, and teddy bears, often purchased with stolen credit cards
  
  They claim to love you either immediately or within 24-48 hours
  
  They immediately start using pet names with you: hon/hun baby/babe sweety/sweetie
  
  They claim God brought you to him/her
  
  They typically claim to be from the US (or your local region) but they are overseas, or going overseas mainly to Nigeria, sometimes the UK for business or family matters
  
  Communication Skills:
  
  Their spelling is atrocious
  
  Their grammar is not consistent with how Americans speak, French speak etc.
  
  They appear uneducated with their speaking/writing skills
  
  They over-use emoticons
  
  They are notorious for using BUZZ
  
  They are notorious for using “i” instead of “I”
  
  They consistently use webspeak or abbreviations; u r ur cos pls/plz ma sry brb div acc
  
  They often mix up their phrases: “i” will like to heer from you soonest, I am kool, Do you have anyman you care to meet, Do you have any man you planning to meet, Looking for someone to love and care for in life, Am cheerfull in life, I will like to meet someone that is careing and loveing for real in life, “i” am too young for my age if you don’t know, Ok so how will you feel if i says i dont mind you, i will like you to be my best friend, You are so pretty for my likeness
  
  They misunderstand our slang or comparisons such as night owl/early bird, poker face
  
  Their Habits:
  
  They are not usually around on the weekends to IM
  
  They IM at unusual hours for your time zone
  
  There are times they are gone from the conversation for a length of time and will sometimes come back at you with a different name, they’re usually conversing with more than one person at a time
  
  If you ask them a question they don’t know they will usually be offline for a length of time so they can go look up the answer on the internet always claiming they had a phone call or had to go to the bathroom etc.
  
  They like to send you poems or love letters, most of which can be traced back to lovingyou.com. Sometimes they even forget to change the name in the poem or letter to match your name
  
  They send you flowers, teddy bears, and candy within the first few weeks of talking
  
  They typically ask you to get on your webcam yet they never seem to have a webcam of their own
  
  They ask for your phone number but when they call you can barely understand a word they say because of their accent and back ground noise
  
  They may give you a phone number but it’s typically a calling card or a call center, you can rarely get them on the phone
  
  They do not like to answer personal questions about themselves and tend to ignore questions
  
  They often do not know the correct time difference between where you are and where they claim to be
  
  They often claim to have one parent that is of African descent
  
  A majority of them claim to have lost a spouse/child/parent in a horrific traffic accident or airplane accident or any of the above are sick or in the hospital
  
  They have no close family or friend or business associates to turn to, even the US embassy, instead they can only rely on a stranger they picked off the internet
  
  To them love equals financial assistance…if you do not send them money or help them out with what they ask, you do not love them
  
  If you deny them or question them they become verbally abusive and will resort to threats
  
  They will insist you keep the relationship a secret until “they” come to you live with you
  
  Above all, if you call them a scammer they are highly offended and some will start throwing words at you in their native language
  Their Inconsistencies:
  
  The details they give you on IM are often different that what was stated on their profiles, one of the more common ones they give different answers to is their birth date, height/weight, and age etc.
  
  If you catch them on an inconsistency they will claim a friend or relative must’ve been using their id to chat with you, they will always try to come up with a cover-up and of course, you are always wrong or mistaken
  
  They often misspell the cities/towns they claim they are from and are unfamiliar with any of the local landmarks and attractions
  
  They do not know common questions that every US citizen would know the answer to
  
  
  More at  HYPERLINK "http://www.romancescams.org/"
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  For a more detailed list of what the scams are see Type of Scams Stories
  
  To see what a scammer profile looks like see Profile of a Scammer
  
  
  
  Romance Scams

標簽

• SCAMMER, Fakes, con, People