by jellybaby
Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:45 pm
I was contacted by a Robert Anderson, who immediately wanted to move onto YM, ( alarm bells ringing?)and after just two days of telling me he was a U.S. surgeon stationed in Iraq, and sending me allsorts of photos ( his English was dreadful, fractured with appalling spelling) he was declaring undying love for me and wanted my email passwords to remove me from all other dating sites etc..( needless to say he didn't get them) then he wanted me to write to his commanding officer to pay £ 4,000 to get him back to me as he was sure God wanted him to choose me as a wife, and as a mother to his son, who was sufferring from the loss of his real mother. Then when that didn't work he decided I could send £4,000 to his 'agent' in Nigeria so that he could purchase a plane ticket for him to come and visit me. When I offerred to buy the plane ticket myself with my air miles, he dropped that idea , and then asked for money for his best friend who needed to be on a dating site and as they couldn't have any money in Iraq, I would have to register him and pay for him...( needless to say, that didn't happen either) and then he sent me photographs of himself with a box full of money, and he wanted me to contact an agent to say I was his wife and ask if would they deliver this parcel from a security company in Iraq to me....the reasons he gave this time for me having to send money to them was that they were taking risks by getting all this money out of Iraq. The requests for my money just got more and more ridiculous and after me wasting his time for over two weeks, he finally realised he was not going to get a single penny or any information from me and gave up.
This is a shortened version of this scammers methods, but please be aware that they play on your feelings, and if it wasn't for this site, I would have been very tempted to believe at least some of what he told me, as it was I was on the alert from day 1 and just wasted his time, whilst hopefully preventing him from scamming someone else. Hope this helps someone else.
This is a shortened version of this scammers methods, but please be aware that they play on your feelings, and if it wasn't for this site, I would have been very tempted to believe at least some of what he told me, as it was I was on the alert from day 1 and just wasted his time, whilst hopefully preventing him from scamming someone else. Hope this helps someone else.