by michaeljo720
Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:13 am
I know this may be pretty obvious, but this is what happened to me online about a week ago:
about a week ago on an online dating site a nice looking girl started talking to me, and gave me her "yahoo messenger id". We started talking in the yahoo messenger and she showed me some photos of herself and stuff. She started treating me like a special friend and love interest, and wrote to me for a few days like that. She says she is from michigan state in USA, but currently she is in nigeria with her mom who is sick and getting treatment there by a doctor. I asked her what her mom's trouble is and she said she has malaria. Now about 5 days later she says she needs to ask me a favor, and wants me to send money to help her buy medications for her mom. She says she needs 95 dollars for medications. She says she wants to come visit me in the usa (I am in california) and at first I was interested in that, and it sounded ok. I Told her she can probably get better treatment in the USA than in nigeria, and possibly with "Medi-Cal" or Medi-care coverage can get free medications, if she comes back to the states. But she says she cannot and has to continue treatment for her mom in nigeria. She says the only way she can get paid is with western union. And I checked, and found out that paypal does not even operate in nigeria because of all the internet scams. I said maybe I would send 5 dollars or something but not 95 dollars and then she was happy to hear me suggest even 5 dollars.
I haven't sent anything, yet. Seems like an obvious scam to me. Nigeria. She was getting friendly with me and stuff, getting ready to ask me for money, over a period of a few days. My mom says I should just stay clear of it, wish her good luck and say bye. That's probably the wise thing to do, right?
about a week ago on an online dating site a nice looking girl started talking to me, and gave me her "yahoo messenger id". We started talking in the yahoo messenger and she showed me some photos of herself and stuff. She started treating me like a special friend and love interest, and wrote to me for a few days like that. She says she is from michigan state in USA, but currently she is in nigeria with her mom who is sick and getting treatment there by a doctor. I asked her what her mom's trouble is and she said she has malaria. Now about 5 days later she says she needs to ask me a favor, and wants me to send money to help her buy medications for her mom. She says she needs 95 dollars for medications. She says she wants to come visit me in the usa (I am in california) and at first I was interested in that, and it sounded ok. I Told her she can probably get better treatment in the USA than in nigeria, and possibly with "Medi-Cal" or Medi-care coverage can get free medications, if she comes back to the states. But she says she cannot and has to continue treatment for her mom in nigeria. She says the only way she can get paid is with western union. And I checked, and found out that paypal does not even operate in nigeria because of all the internet scams. I said maybe I would send 5 dollars or something but not 95 dollars and then she was happy to hear me suggest even 5 dollars.
I haven't sent anything, yet. Seems like an obvious scam to me. Nigeria. She was getting friendly with me and stuff, getting ready to ask me for money, over a period of a few days. My mom says I should just stay clear of it, wish her good luck and say bye. That's probably the wise thing to do, right?
