nigerian dating scam

They're perfect. In fact, they're someone you could see yourself spending the rest of your life with. A decent person with a good job or business in search of a good, honest partner to settle down with.

You or someone you know may be dating this person online right now. However, be warned. Things aren't what they appear to be. In reality you're talking to a criminal sitting in a cybercafe with a well rehearsed script he's used many times before. He's hunting through chat rooms, dating sites and social networking sites searching for victims, looking to cash in on romance. If you are over 40, recently divorced, a widow, elderly or disabled then all the better in his eyes. Scammers are adept at psychological profiling, and use any weakness they find to their advantage.

It's the newest evolution of the Nigerian advance fee (419) scam. Instead of sending spam letters that promise millions for your assistance, these scammers are targeting single men and women who are searching for love online.

They use psychological tricks to lure their victims in, use poetry and even gifts to get them under their spell, then once you are there, will try to reach for your wallet, all the time declaring their "undying love" for you. The scam may take the form of asking you to cash a cheque for them through your bank account because they are "out of the country" and unable to cash it themselves, or they may come right out and ask you to send money to help them out of a fabricated "financial difficulty" they claim to be experiencing. These are all lies used to try to make them easy money from an unsuspecting victim.

The sad truth is, for every real profile you see on the internet, there are numerous false ones pretending to be your perfect mate and using photographs stolen from modelling or social networking sites. The people in the photographs are as much victims as the people who get scammed for hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars.Internet romance scams and other related crimes are very real, and they are affecting -- even ruining -- lives throughout the world.

The best weapon against this crime is education. The more people that are educated in the ways the scams work, the harder it is for the scammers to make money and the more scammers that can be put out of business.

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[Pokefandark]

Hi plzz i really need ur help this is my email bianca1965@yahoo.com i have a similar story but i need to talk to someone and i think ur the right person.

[jhonnny05]

@Pokefandark

hi there i just send u a email hope you are fine.!!

[james790216]

but i had it shiped to my address then i was going to send it to her then i seen these scams so i did not send it but i told her if she was real and she really cared about me she would prove to me that she was the same person has in the pics i told her to write my name on a paper and put it next to her face then take a pic but now days you can photo shop it so i dont know

[jhonnny05]

@james790216 Hi you were smart!! probably is a scammer tell me something it was the same pictures i have in this video?? let me know!!

[maryann2274]

Felt so sad about all those scamm report, but guys I am one of the victims. Money can find easily but our broken hearts were never be the same again.I fell inlove with a man I dont know well I gve my trust. He said hes from UK I believe him bcz hes accent difinetly from UK but stayin in nigeria bcz of contract. He asked money then at the end He .said ''babe I'm in police custody,be sure youre be good. I wish I can explain to you whats goin now''. then end of the story... for 9mnths relationship

[jhonnny05]

@maryann2274 whit me was the same, the girl who talk whit me speak perfect english like someone from UK.. i never will be the same!! but is good to keep moving forward and think they for sure will pay for this!! if you do bad thinks to someone in this life everything get paid!..

[onlinebabeful]

Nigerians are false,the biggest fraudsters,liars,cheats..they are the biggest actors everywhere..in UK -we are well aware of the NIGERIANS..stay away they are not to be trusted..And I got told this by a ...you guessed it, A fellow Nigerian who is ashamed of his own people.

[CharlyDontSurf]

@jhonnny05

Accents can be easily disguised.

Quite a few Nigerians and west Africans are taught English by British teachers and develop a British accent of their own.

I've done a little research since someone tried to scam me and found out that with these Nigerian romance scams, about 98% of them are male. You were probably talking to the scammers girlfriend, sister, cousin, etc. who is also in on the scam.

[CharlyDontSurf]

Another thing scammers do is send poems and love letters(obviously copied and pasted from the net too) that are in flawless, perfect English but when you later have a regular IM conversation with them, they regress back to the bad grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.

Yet another scammer red flag.

[CharlyDontSurf]

Usually use photos stolen from modeling/porn websites and/or social networking sites, the actual people in those photos are victims too.

Best advice is to just use common sense and remember the old adage, "if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is" and NEVER send money to anyone you've only met online.

[CharlyDontSurf]

Warn(cont): they say "cos" instead of "because".

Don't know things that are common knowledge to most Americans.

Money requests: My scammer had only known me for about a week, then claimed "she" needed money for medicine for her sick mother.

Always want the money sent by Western Union, since its untraceable and once the funds are picked up by the scammer, can never be returned.

Oftentimes claim to be on "missionary" work in west Africa. If a supposed white man/woman claims that, it is a scam

[CharlyDontSurf]

I too was the target of a Nigerian scammer.

Claimed to be a 31 year old 'woman'(most Nigerian scammers are men) living in California.

I used a reverse e-mail search tool, you can find these on the net and they are free, and busted "her" that way. Turned out "her" e-mails were coming from Lagos, Nigeria while "she" claimed to live in CA.

Warning signs: Bad grammar, they say "am" instead of "I am" or "I'm". They fall madly in love with you after a short time