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RE: Writing competition: Write about scammers, a scam you saw, or a scam you suffered. First prize 25 steem!

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Thank you @swissclive very much for the comment and your attention. I did not see your comment at all. you ran into me in locked, like unsafe private content, I do not know the reason, probably, somehow accidentally pressed a button somewhere. Because I'm new, I not still do know. I fixed everything. Excuse me.
Yes, you are right, sometimes I had suspicions, but I myself did not think about Skype communication, it was certainly my fault.
About the search engine Tin-eye, I did not know. I just heard about it from you now.
But at the same time I put his photos just to find in Google, similar photos were not.
But the phone number of this man, it did not occur to me to check on the Internet before sending money.
I did not specifically describe what was written in the reports about what was written, I decided that it would be very long. And I was uncomfortable for my motive, probably I got this lesson for exactly that reason: my friend wrote that he sent me money, $ 10,000. And a ring for me. (This also surprised me and I wrote, how canyou you send the ring in a parcel, and not at the meeting to put it on my finger). I was surprised at that, too, I wrote that such operations are done through a bank and I realized that something is wrong. But how exactly my brain worked. It was beyond my control. My friend, who lent me money, did not come to the notary's office for a very long time to notarize the transfer of money, and my doubts grew more and more. I already wanted to leave and call that I changed my mind, but ... alas, I did not. I think that by some kind of hypnosis I was bewitched. I do not know, I can not answer this question now. For a very long time I kept both the correspondence and the photo in the yahoo, but when all the services refused help, I simply deleted them.
As soon as the money was sent by us, my doubts had the upper hand over my senses, although it was already late ... very late.
@swissclive: Western Union service instead of a normal bank-to-bank transfer?
Neither I nor my friend thought about it. We do not deal with scammers every day. This was my first and very sad experience ...
I checked the phone number through the Internet and found other women's letters about this person that it was a marriage crook ... and everyone was careful ...
but the money is listed by me ...
Can you imagine my despair at that moment. I admit, and now I'm not much easier. Although all this time I understand that you can not 100% trust online. Wrote again chaotically. But how is the flow ... @swissclive Sorry))

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Now I understand how he tricked you to pay for the parcel. He told you that it contained $10’000 and an engagement ring. It must have been hard to resist.

From what country was his phone number?

If you read some of the other blogs here you will find some which talk about how the scammers operate the romance scams.

Now you have been a victim once, you may be contacted by “the police”, saying they have caught the scammer, and will return your money. Except, you must first pay a fee......

Do not trust anyone who contacts you online about returning your funds.

Thank you @swissclive! For the present, I have read very few other posts, although the new one is always interesting, I'm new.
I considered myself a sensible and intelligent woman, and in this situation it turned out to be a complete fool ... sad, but true ...

His phone number was from England. And he himself, as it turned out later, from Malaysia. It turns out, for the sake of such a goal - they spent a decent amount of money on telephone communication with the number of a foreign country.

It's been three years since these events, he or his friends tried to contact me through social networks after a while.
But I already understood the false.

I am grateful to you @swissclive for this topic, which you raised, my experiences came out, and I was able to tell this story without straining.
I have long forgiven this man, life is a boomerang.

But the unpleasant residue remained. And not only a deposit and a huge debt for me, I have been working for a year free of charge and repaid only a small part of the debt.

All the will of God...

All good! And do not be in a similar situation ...))

))) In my mail, I still found one of his letters. The letter is dated January, and he asked for money in March ...

Friday, January 10, 2015 23:17 Jackson Max [email protected] wrote (s):
Svetlana my sweetheart

How are you? Hope you are good and always be in a good condition. Darling i am very much interested in you and I'm so glad to have you in my life, you are like a pearl that shining in the sea and now you are shining in my heart like a morning star, i cant stop thinking about you my love, you always be in my mind everywhere every time my sweet angel. I miss you, I really do.

Even though i never set my eyes on you but i must let you know that the love i have for you is endless. And when you think about it, how could you possibly miss someone you never meet, but darling i really do love you.

So now, how about the good people in your Country there? I learnt that a lot of foreigners go there always for Vacation and investment? It has been a long time I have interest to invest outside from my country such as to buy house and some other things! Well I will love to know more about the tourist places in your country. I will like to visit your country soon to meet you face to face and also to invest there, I would like to seek your advice in what business can be good and profitable for me to invest in?

There are no words that can possibly explain how I feel right now, in fact i really don't know what to say right now but i hope to see you someday to show you how i feel about you. Please take proper care of yourself for me. I love you so much darling. Miss you ... KISSES

Well such words are enough to sweep any lady off her feet. I noticed a few small things: “in your Country there”. That sounds like he is writing the same words to more than one lady.

“I will like to visit your country”. This poor grammer in English is straight out of Nigeria.

Lastly the comments about vacation, tourism and investment are very generic. It’s another indication that he is using the same words with many ladies in many countries.

You may want to read about hundreds of people who had the same experience:
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2015/07/faking-it-scammers-tricks-steal-your-heart-and-money?page=3

Yes, you @swissclive write this already, knowing many situations. Noya was not tempted by such acquaintances and did not pay attention to it. Thank you @swissclive, I will follow the link and read the same sad experiences of people.

That really sucks... I hope you've had better luck in your love life since then.

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