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Victim TestimonialFrom: "Barb Sluppick" <sluppick{at}cox{dot}net> I have been looking all over the web and I am not finding anything on this. I thought maybe it was a fluke, but now a lady from one of my message groups had the same experience to a worse degree and it is time that this is brought to the forefront. Let me tell you my story. On January 19th, I got an instant message from a guy that found me on Yahoo Personals. Not unusual to hear from a new person this way. To make a long story short, he began to romance me. He told me that he was born in the UK, lived in Arizona and was currently working a job in Nigeria. I laughed and said, oh don't tell me that this is one of those Nigerian 419 scams and you are going to ask for money. He laughed about it and said no. He sent me pictures of a very nice looking English man and another of an older woman with a dog. All looked nice a proper. I was a little leery about the way that he worded some things, they just seemed a little off. Anyway, the romance was on. He quoted poetry, told me all kinds of wonderful things. He told me that his job would end there in a couple of months and that he would then come to see me. I asked him what then, and he said that we would get married. I kept telling him that it would be nice to meet and know each other and he told me that he knew my heart and it would happen. I could go on and on. At one point he said that he could not wait for a couple months and that he was going to take a holiday to come and see me. Problem was that he was having trouble cashing checks. Could I do that for him and when he got there we would go to his bank and he would get me the money. I told him if that was the case that I could wait the couple of months since I did not have any money at all. He laughed and said you think that I was trying to get you to send me money, I was just kidding. On went the romancing. Then came the phone call. It was at 2 AM, and I almost got sick to my stomach when I heard his voice. This was not the voice of a proper Englishman, it was the voice of a black Nigerian man. I have a dear friend who is employed by my company to do phone work, and he is originally from Nigeria, so I know the accent well. He asked why I did not sound excited to talk to him and I said that it was because he did not sound the way that he should. He told me that he had a cold and that living with these people he picked up the accent. The call did not last very long. I talked to him on line the next day and told him that I knew that everything that he told me was a lie. He denied everything over and over, telling me that I needed to trust him. I had a girlfriend Instant Message him out of the blue and start talking to him. She told him that she was looking for a black man and she was having a hard time finding one that she liked. He told her that he was a handsome black man from Lagos Nigeria. She sent me copies of the conversation and I sent them to him. He did not know what to do. I kept bugging him about why he told me such lies and he refused to talk to me. Every so often I pop in on him and let him know that he will pay for playing those kinds of games. Now after I have heard the story of this other lady, I have decided that it is time to report this guy to Yahoo. The lady on my message group had very much the same thing happen. Except that he told her that the job had ended and he was trying to cash the money orders that he was paid with and was having trouble. He asked her to cash them at her bank. She did and sent him the money Western Union. He then sent her more money orders and when she went to cash those they were determined to be fraudulent. The bank that she cashed them at have now taken all of the funds out of her account to cover the initial money orders. She still owes them over $800.00 and though they understand that she was a victim of a scam, they are still looking to her for restitution. Someone needs to be telling the ladies of the world that this scam is
happening. I am wondering how many other ladies are being scammed this way and
are too afraid and embarrassed to say anything. I am going to report this to
Yahoo personals and any of the other dating sites that I use. I think that the
word needs to get out for women to beware. Thanks for listening.
Near Victim TestimonialFrom: HottMamaPK@a*
Discussion/Support Group StartedFrom: "Barb Sluppick"<sluppick{at}cox{dot}net>
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