by frosty12
Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:36 pm
IP adress comes up Ghana...please help..j
It would be best if you could post some of the emails this person has sent you, as well as the email address he is using.
With that said, if someone has been writing you, claiming to be an American on active duty in the Air Force, and his IP comes back as Ghana, he is certainly a scammer.
There are literally thousands of profiles out there that supposedly belong to soldiers nearing retirement or single dads serving in the military overseas who just happen to be looking for love. I have yet to encounter a single active one that is real (there are some older, inactive profiles that are real.) Soldiers who are stationed overseas have very active, high-stress lives. They are separated from friends and family back home. They don't have huge amounts of time to chat and socialize on the internet--and when they do have the time for communication, they aren't picking up strangers online looking for romance--most often, they are using that time to communicate with those loved ones back home. (Note: there are some real pen pal programs that involve writing to soldiers. Soldiers may participate in these, but these require nothing more an occasional (non-romantic) letter, as opposed to the hourse of email and chat time involved in a romantic relationship. ) In reality, when you are approached by anyone claiming to be a soldier stationed overseas, chances are >95% they are a scam. Add an IP that leads to Nigeria or Ghana, and you have a scammer for sure.
Best of luck to all of you that encounter such devious people 
