Start of a scammer?

Hi, was first contacted by this person on a dating site. Said he was 60 yrs old, picture looked about that. Somehow I smell a rat!!! Saying 'Daddy' at his age???!!!! This is our first conversation on yahoo today - not very much like the Londoner he said he was in his profile. What do you reckon?

CRIST WALMER: <ding>
CRIST WALMER: Hello
CRIST WALMER: How are you doing today?
CRIST WALMER: We missed each other yesterday hope to chat with you today ok...
CRIST WALMER: <ding>
xxxxx : Was at Church this morning, we had a Baptism then lunch
CRIST WALMER: Ohh ok
CRIST WALMER: I have been here since i got back from work
CRIST WALMER: waiting to chat with you
CRIST WALMER: <ding>
CRIST WALMER: Are you busy there?
CRIST WALMER: Buzz me when you get back ok...

BUZZ!!!
CRIST WALMER has signed back in. (16/05/2010 18:20)

CRIST WALMER: Hello
xxxxx: Hi,
xxxxx : How are you
CRIST WALMER: Am doing great
CRIST WALMER: And you?
xxxxx : Yes fine, What have you been doing today
CRIST WALMER: I went to church and after that came back home
CRIST WALMER: And you?
xxxxx : Went to Church, had our first Baptism after which we had lunch, then I went to see my friend (89) and fixed her conservatory door bolt, then put her an awning up
CRIST WALMER: Ohh ok
CRIST WALMER: Nice to meet you today...
CRIST WALMER: Can i know your name if you do not mine...
xxxxx : xxxxx, is yours Chris
CRIST WALMER: yes
CRIST WALMER: Are you married?
xxxxx : definitely NO!
xxxxx : how about you?
CRIST WALMER: Am a widower
xxxxx : That's sad
CRIST WALMER: yes...
CRIST WALMER: are u are widower?
xxxxx : Could never be a widower as that is male! Divorced
CRIST WALMER: Oh ok
CRIST WALMER: Do you have kids?
xxxxx: One son aged 35
CRIST WALMER: wow thats nice of you
CRIST WALMER: I only have two kids living with me
xxxxx: who looks after them during the time they are off school
CRIST WALMER: My kids use to do that by them self
CRIST WALMER: They understand me and know how i feel
xxxxx: and how do you feel
CRIST WALMER: i feel bad sometime when am alon.....So they told me not to do that but i should go on with my life
xxxxx : good advice
CRIST WALMER: They are the one who told me to fined someone who will make me happy in life so i will stop thinking about there mom
xxxxx: That is not an easy task
CRIST WALMER: I know
CRIST WALMER: But i know am going to meet someone who will make me stop thinking about all those things
xxxxx: how long ago did you lose her
CRIST WALMER: 5 years now
xxxxx : quite a while then. What work do you do?
CRIST WALMER: I take good care of my late daddy business
CRIST WALMER: And you?
xxxxx: I am retired although wouldn't think it as I am always busy with one person or another
CRIST WALMER: What where you doing before you went on retired?
xxxxx : secretary
xxxxx : what was your late father's business
CRIST WALMER: we buy and sell gold jewelrys
xxxxx : is the market good
CRIST WALMER: Oh yes...I really like the business
xxxxx : Where abouts are you situated
CRIST WALMER: Am the only child for my parent.....So my daddy told me to take good care of his business when he die
CRIST WALMER: So i did as he told me because i don't want him to feel bad at where ever he is
CRIST WALMER is typing...
CRIST WALMER: An really a road contractor but i stop it because my daddy told me to take care of his business.....
xxxxx : oh right. look, I have to go out now as have a meeting with a friend
CRIST WALMER: Ohh thats ok
CRIST WALMER: What time will you be back home?
xxxxx : Have no idea
CRIST WALMER: ok
CRIST WALMER: are you going now
xxxxx: yes, bye
CRIST WALMER: take care
CRIST WALMER is typing...
CRIST WALMER: i will check back on you ok
xxxxx: ok

You are absolutely right. I have no doubt that this is indeed a scammer.

The "daddy" makes mores sense when you consider that most scammers are young, but it is really the bog-standard African mistakes that give it away.

Can you post his ID?

[email protected] I have a picture but couldn't get it to work on here, think I did something wrong.

There is a thread here for posting pictures viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3219

If you still have trouble let me know and I will give you an email address for you to forward them and I can post them for you

http://scamwarners.com/main//guestuploa ... campic.jpg

Hi, this is the best I can do. I have put a picture on before but think age has overcome me and I have mislaid my memory!!! Thanks if you can help.

This should do it:

Wow, you did that well! Thanks a lot.

I notice that the picture has been taken off his profile on the dating site. Wonder if someone else has caught onto him or maybe he looks at this site!!! Should I report him to the site????

There is little gain in reporting his profile, scammers get lots of practice at putting together dating profiles and can usually put them together in a few minutes with their copy and pasted details so losing a profile is a very small inconvenience.

On the other hand, having their profiles available for people to do research on can be an invaluable resource, when we investigate romance scammers, it is often the varying profiles of one "person" that gives their scam away.

By having the profile deleted there is a slight chance of saving somebody from being scammed if they had only just received the initial message from the scammer but in most cases, scammers will move to email or chat in the first message anyway so that is not likely.

For the sites where you can leave a message or comment on their profile it can be usefull to do that advising that the person is a scammer as once the scammer has his profile set up he will seldom spend the time to check it, meanwhile, other people who may not have been aware of scammers will begin to see that dating sites are not quite as they are advertised and are full of dangers