I am just watching the programme 'For Love or Money', on the BBC. During this time there are lots of rogue scamming being carried out. The programme is about people being scammed on dating sites. Has anyone ever been scammed by anyone? I was once asked by a guy who had visited me several times to lend him some money (£100), needless to say I didn't lend him the money. |
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over a year ago
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"I really can never understand why people on dating sites fall for the handing over money to people they have never met. Surely alarm bells must ring! "
I agree but love and/or lust can do funny things to even the most stable person. |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
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Not personally no. I did watch a programme a few years back where an older gentleman met a woman on the internet who lived in another Country and they fleeced him for thousands and thousands after claiming it was medical expenses for her mum. He never saw her apart from photos and the odd phone call. No video chat.
He was lonely, vulnerable, and trusting. The worst thing was, he clearly didn’t have much money himself, and he said it hadn’t put him off internet dating, and the same thing happened again!!! He thought it was a different woman but apparently (Police got involved) it was the same person but a different profile etc.
It was really sad to watch.  |
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By gcups29Find posts by gcups29 Woman
just this minute!
A town no one knows...
Having recently been on dating sites, I noticed a hell of a lot more fake profiles than previously.
I came across some males than supposedly lived local but you'd swap numbers and it was clearly a foreigner.
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My parents were scammed recently for the second time. Not romance fraud though.
Someone I know has been systematically bled dry of her money and the home she and her late husband bought by a romance fraudster. She met him on holiday shortly after she was widowed, he was much younger and married with children. Despite many people warning her she gave him money for medical bills, a tractor and various other things. He visited her a few times and called her weekly. She sold her house, spent all her savings and now lives alone in a tiny mobile home.
These people have no remorse and no finer feelings. |
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