About the romance nigerian scammers who email you.

Okay, a few months ago, I had received an email from a highly attractive young woman, Tiffany Harris, who claims to be a part time model from Texas, but is currently living in Africa to pursue her career. First off, I had figured out that it was actually a nigerian scammer emailing me. We had a brief conversation with each other for a bit and such. But then when I said, "Do you really think i'm that stupid and naive enough to fall your scamming tricks? You're a scammer aren't ya?" The scammer never replied again. Oh yeah, when I got a message in my yahoo email from another scammer, I said the same thing. After that, I had never heard from the scammer again. So all of this leads me to asking this question: When the romance scammer has emailed you, and you reply to them saying that you're not a naive fool who will fall for their scamming trick, will they stop messaging you???

Depends on how far the scam has gone.

If it is very early in the scam, i.e. only a few chats or emails in, the scammer will drop you (though he may act offended and deny being a scammer anyway). The scammer hasn't invested much time in you, you never really showed signs of being a good victim, so you aren't worth the effort.

If it is further into the scam, and it appears you really believed in the lies, he very likely won't let go as quickly, as he will believe that he still has a chance to hook you again. If a victim has already paid money to the scammer, he will hang on even tighter--once a victim has paid, the scammer knows he/she will part with their money and he is going to do everything he can to make sure he's the one who takes it.

@Dotti you are both right and wrong. Not all scammers will drop you immediately. I used to be one of them and we know our real prospects. I am ashamed to say it ( but saying it cos I know it will help some people ) but I once scammed someone very stubborn from Carson in Arizona ( or Alaska - I am not American and don't know for such ), he was a smart guy.

He had read about the scams and knew how it works and to counter me and my claims ( I claimed to be from Carson and also claimed I was very new to the area before I left for Africa. I had also given him a fake address which I had gotten from yahoo yellow pages ), he asked me to tell him about a statue in the City of Carson and what the letter was and what it stands for.

I was confused ( cos I had never been to Carson ) but a few smart Googling revealed the answer to me. The man was surprised and believed me. The result was is $5,000....Later ( after about 2 years ) apologized to him and we became friends.