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Regarding the patience of scammers...

I chatted to a guy for about 18 months before he started asking for ***. He spent time building up a relationship with me. He started asking for small amounts, after dropping several hints about his dire financial situation.

This guy spent nearly every day talking to me to get what he wanted. It got very messy at the end with him trying to blackmail me.

 

 

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Generally speaking it seems to be male scammers take longer than females to come out with it.

🤔 It couldn't be that men are more gullible...

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31 minutes ago, LazyPiratesBounty said:

Regarding the patience of scammers...

I chatted to a guy for about 18 months before he started asking for ***. He spent time building up a relationship with me. He started asking for small amounts, after dropping several hints about his dire financial situation.

This guy spent nearly every day talking to me to get what he wanted. It got very messy at the end with him trying to blackmail me.

 

 

Well, scammers can't remain patient with me for very long. Mostly because once they hint payment, I try to avoid the topic and go around it.

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28 minutes ago, quietlysure said:

Generally speaking it seems to be male scammers take longer than females to come out with it.

🤔 It couldn't be that men are more gullible...

Well, they think men will do anything once promised something sexy.

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2 hours ago, LazyPiratesBounty said:

Regarding the patience of scammers...

I chatted to a guy for about 18 months before he started asking for ***. He spent time building up a relationship with me. He started asking for small amounts, after dropping several hints about his dire financial situation.

This guy spent nearly every day talking to me to get what he wanted. It got very messy at the end with him trying to blackmail me.

 

 

That's insightful, thanks Bounty, and possibly sheds some light on a situation I was in a month or so ago. Ugh, sorry it all turned messy for you 😞

[qu****]

If it looks fishy and sounds fishy it probably is fishy

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Though granted it could just be a part in need of a good wash...🤪🤪

[ey****]

incidentally... men are often the most vocal about complaining about scammers but research suggests that the vast majority of victims are women and the average losses is around twice as much as the men.

I suspect a little is to do with a lot of the set ups that work and that also the longer the hustle the more that needs to be taken to be worthwhile.

Someone tried to scam my next door neighbour and I was trying to warn her and, effectively, when the bluff was called the scammer responded by sending a virus (which my neighbour was daft enough to install) 

Men are often very vocal "this is a scam, that's a scam" (when it's not always...) but yet it's women more likely to be victims of a scam.  

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I was nearly a victim of a scam last summer, different site altogether. He is still doing the rounds to this day. He claimed he lived local, but in fact he lives in Turkey. Bit of digging on my part, caught him out, irony of this story, he is married with a beautiful wife and 3 kids, wonder if wifey knows what he is up to, let alone how much *** he has conned outta women.

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Now I wonder if there is anybody here who can help me: i’ve been left £2.5 million by the Arabian uncle of an ex-girlfriend that I used to see for a few months. We got on really well. Much better than I got on with his niece. Anyway he died a couple of weeks ago and he’s left me this *** as well. The problem is I need somebody with a UK bank account to help me get my inheritance. If you give me all your bank details, the name and breed of your cat, the date of your first kiss and the ethnicity of your milkman, I promise I’ll let you keep no less than £1 million, if you will forward on the remaining £1.5 million to me. Thanks for your help. I look forward to your contact...

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1 minute ago, Fredddy said:

Now I wonder if there is anybody here who can help me: i’ve been left £2.5 million by the Arabian uncle of an ex-girlfriend that I used to see for a few months. We got on really well. Much better than I got on with his niece. Anyway he died a couple of weeks ago and he’s left me this *** as well. The problem is I need somebody with a UK bank account to help me get my inheritance. If you give me all your bank details, the name and breed of your cat, the date of your first kiss and the ethnicity of your milkman, I promise I’ll let you keep no less than £1 million, if you will forward on the remaining £1.5 million to me. Thanks for your help. I look forward to your contact...

No. No. Oh my god. Please don't tell me that you've actually seen that somewhere.

[qu****]

Reminds of one that was in the news 3 or 4 years ago, a Nigerian was trapped on the moon and needed help to get off, how he was able to send the email is beyond me..

Edited January 29, 2020 by quietlysure
Needed not need

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51 minutes ago, quietlysure said:

Reminds of one that was in the news 3 or 4 years ago, a Nigerian was trapped on the moon and needed help to get off, how he was able to send the email is beyond me..

*spits out his drink and bursts into laugh*

Holy shit.

[qu****]

Yes, apparently true, and oddly I sort of hope it was even if it was a scam🤪 

[qu****]

Just checked he was stuck in space and his cousin was raising $3 million dollars to bring him home😂🤣😂

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On 1/29/2020 at 9:41 PM, LazyPiratesBounty said:

Regarding the patience of scammers...

I chatted to a guy for about 18 months before he started asking for ***. He spent time building up a relationship with me. He started asking for small amounts, after dropping several hints about his dire financial situation.

This guy spent nearly every day talking to me to get what he wanted. It got very messy at the end with him trying to blackmail me.

 

 

That's EPICALLY patient!

[Vandalslut]

On 1/30/2020 at 7:30 AM, Fredddy said:

Now I wonder if there is anybody here who can help me: i’ve been left £2.5 million by the Arabian uncle of an ex-girlfriend that I used to see for a few months. We got on really well. Much better than I got on with his niece. Anyway he died a couple of weeks ago and he’s left me this *** as well. The problem is I need somebody with a UK bank account to help me get my inheritance. If you give me all your bank details, the name and breed of your cat, the date of your first kiss and the ethnicity of your milkman, I promise I’ll let you keep no less than £1 million, if you will forward on the remaining £1.5 million to me. Thanks for your help. I look forward to your contact...

Makes a nice change from the bloke in Africa whose Dad was ***ed by his business partners and whose Mum died of cancer, and the goldfish needs counselling for fin-rot and the budgie fell off the perch - literally - and the evil business partners have threatened his life (the man's life, not the budgie's) and he needs to move the *** out of Africa before the evil business partners get all 8 million USD of it... Had that one four or five times in the last couple of years - only the amount of *** has been changed to protect the innocent...

[Wo****]

I used to have a fish that that lost his tail through fin rot. He survived with a stump for years... I renamed him Arfur. Arfur Fish 😊 (true story)

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8 hours ago, Vandalslut said:

That's EPICALLY patient!

there's very much the time v reward  on scams in general

think of it like a business; you wouldn't spend 12-18 months working on someone for a tenner, but if you could get repeated small payments from them or one big one then it's worthwhile.  

but if you just want a quick cash grab then lower amounts from multiple marks could work.

 

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2 hours ago, eyemblacksheep said:

there's very much the time v reward  on scams in general

think of it like a business; you wouldn't spend 12-18 months working on someone for a tenner, but if you could get repeated small payments from them or one big one then it's worthwhile.  

but if you just want a quick cash grab then lower amounts from multiple marks could work.

 

It probably would as well, they'd have to have a lot of different marks on the go at once.

[qu****]

Well as some operate from an office there would be enough bodies about, 

[ey****]

a lot of the lucrative scams often involve someone who won't meet - but wants to - but has an apparent good reason for not; in the military, a doctor working overseas, travelling business person,  so on

and to a degree these are people who will seemingly tap into things their mark is passionate about - but because they're overseas, or travelling a lot - they can be ad hoc with contact and be using that time to work other marks.

likewise; a lot of the short term ones that usually target men are very simplistic - "Mistress of your Dreams" - doesn't want a tribute!  But... yeah, there's a catch somewhere whether it's sending you to an online store that doesn't exist or perhaps bailing on meeting at short notice unless you can, say, cover a cab, mobile, train fare, etc.