"
Love Internet Scams," by BlondeMorticia07Have you joined a lot of Internet websites looking for love in all of the wrong places? I have.I''m sure a lot of
people have.I won''t mention the sites themselves, but I will mention the types of scams I''ve encountered personally, while just trying to meet new friends, while wondering if I might meet "the one," along the way also. Some people think you could never find love
online, but a lot of people do actually, so how crazy is that? ha ha haAnyways, I digress. I have had people woo me online and then make a lot of promises to me, and then all of a sudden there is a instantaneous disaster in their lives, and they need money for their sick child, or parent.I have others ask me for money in the wooing process after they fly over to West Africa from either the US or the UK, as they suddenly realize that they need more money for their contract over there in Nigeria, and Nigeria is the big one because they have all kinds of scams originating from there, all encircling other places around the world, like:1) New York, New York2) UK or United Kingdom3) Canada4) Manhattan, New Yorketc.Now in Nigeria they are famous for their "pre-fee 401 scams," where they tell you they need to have you reappropriate their money, or be a contractor for some huge contract, stand in as the inheritor of a fortune because the family died in a plane crash, killed by rebel forces, and of course Durfur comes to mind there, etc.My family and I lost over $10,000.00 United States Dollars (USD) on one of those Nigerian 401 Pre-Fee scams as they were telling me I was needed as a business contractor to work with them on an oil contract in Nigeria, and this was before those scams were so well known, talked about in the media, or warned about online, etc.I filed a case against all of them on the FBI''s Internet Fraud Division website, but our money was never recovered or returned to us by the FBI or from the Nigerian government, and I have received internet letters online ever since stating I should not deal with those tricksters, and this or that public official over there would recover my money, to no avail.I was anonymously in the newspaper here, and on our local radio station here, but was not mentioned due to the FBI being involved, so thank God for that!I''ve had people in other countries
say they wanted me to manage their funds, and they would send me a check, and I have lost bank accounts from those scams, as who wouldn''t like to receive a huge percentage rate from managing someone else''s inherited fortune, or business account, you know?I had a guy romance me who said he was a doctor, bought a house, wanted to send me money but I had to open up a Bank of America account first, and he would transfer the money to me, and then he asked if I would send the rest to his attorney for paperwork for "our house," and what girl hasn''t dreamed of marrying a doctor or a lawyer or a dentist? lolWell I opened the bank account, he sent the money to my account overnight, but what he failed to mention at the time, was that he had contacted someone else and told them in an e-mail that their Bank of America account was needing some correcting and he stole money out of their account, after they gave him their banking information.So then, needless to say, I was woken up by the Federal Banking Commission, and accused of being in on that scam, and I told her I was just as much victimized as my new bank account, as the people who were lied to, so I called the 24 hr. Bank of America phone line, and reported the supposed doctor right away and told them I would bring in my new Visa check debit card immediately that morning and my new checks, which I did!I was so sad too as their debit Visa check card was so cute looking too. lolOuch!(Don''t ever give anyone your banking information, or your Paypal information those are "phishing e-
mails," where they have fake links in their e-mails or steal false company headlines from a company and put it on a fake e-mail to fish information from you.)Make sure you have a Phishing screening set up on your computer from MSN or another company for your protection, because they will tell you when you get one at the top of those e-mails, this is not the company it says it is, and don''t click on the links!They also use screening devices on their phones so that they say "Security Screening," etc., so you can''t see that they are calling from Nigeria as I found out from the latest guy online who was trying something with me, but when he called me on my cell phone it showed the Country Code of Nigeria on it, so he couldn''t get out of that one with me at all. lolI guess I''ll just stay alone as enough is enough, and all of this didn''t happen all at once and I am no idiot, this was over years of time, while I was dutifully trying to start my own business out of my own home, so, so much for that. lolTrying to think of anything here, oh yeah.These bologna e-mails that say you won the Lottery in some other country those are fake.The ones that say someone is dying and would you donate the money from her estate to the widows and orphans for her.The other fake e-mails are the ones that say they need a payment receiver person for their company, who takes the money orders they aren''t here to cash, then they say you can take 6-10% off of what you receive and send the rest to them in the Western Union, those are fake offers.If you are doing business online out of your home, you take no checks, or money orders, take only PayPal, or Western Union money sent to you, or from other legitimate money payout sources, you accept no checks, or money orders, even if they make it look real official and they FED EX it to you, or use some other official looking delivery company.The delivery company doesn''t guarantee that the check or money order is real.But Western Union has to be paid for with a credit card online that is verified, or with cash in a local grocery store that takes cash only, so be careful!Some people have been killed for some of their involvements in these scams, or arrested and put in jail or prison, so don''t suckered into all of these supposed easy fixes for money problems you might be experiencing.I''ve even seen generic loan e-mails lately, so that is a new one, promising you big bucks for a loan but it could be loan sharks at the other end of the generic e-mails waiting to rough someone up if they don''t pay, you know?The other e-mails I''ve gotten were people saying their parents or a family member in some higher up official office in some country left their children safety deposit boxes they need money to pick up because they are poor and don''t even have the money to pick them up or want you to go to another country to pick up the box.They will, and other scams send you very official looking faxed paper work, or e-mail it to you as an attachment, and it looks real, but is it worth being lured into another country and killed over when you go to pick it up, and they have a hit man waiting there to kill you?
Published: September 26, 2007
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