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September 24, 2006, 6:50 am PDT
 Quote From: zumachda I just have to laugh. When I read this topic, Dr. Phil was describing what happened to me to a T. "Mathew Johnson" said he was from Wisconsin. Good looking picture and nice profile. (on Mysapce.com) We started chatting and almost at once he started calling me dear. Then it went to My love. Well he also typed like he was Yoda. Alot of really bad grammar with words turned around. A construction worker from Wisconsin stuck in Africa on business and need to have cash to get home. Well I knew it was a scam right away. So I prodded him a little. What about family helping, etc. Then I said asked what type of work he did and he said oil drilling. I said in Wisconsin? And, I could have fallen off my chair, he said yes!!! We have alot of things in Wisconsin, but no oil fields. I told him buzz me when he got back to Wisconsin, and he got all huffy and said no. I feel for people that fall for this. They play on the fact that if you are looking online and are of middle age, that we are easy targets. I have been thru enough to not trust anyone, so I didn't fall for it. Please, all of you out there, be careful. There are pleanty of Real people to be friends with. I won't chat with another guy again. I have had enough. My daughters said try and find someone, I say, I will stick with my family and cats!! God Bless! Your advice was very upbeat yet very true.
I joined Match.com a month ago. I am a senior, pretty, still working and just felt it would be nice to meet a nice man to share fun times. Well, after a succession of men who decided they were too conservative for this proud Democrat, I get a letter from a man who said he was in the UK. His photo was movie star gorgeous. His profile had no interests, no requirements for his date except that she be from the United States and said " If you are the kind of woman who is not trusting, I am not the man for you. " AND he demanded that I immediately write him,not through Match, but his private email -- a free Yahoo account. His email raised the hairs on the back of my neck.
As a former journalist, his message said two things to me. He was either a terrorist trying to gain help in entering our country without suspician or a scam artist lining me up for taking my money. I immediately reported him to match.com who threw him off their system. Then I called the local FBI and their representative said this: (PLEASE LISTEN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN) "They want your money. Every day we get people calling us, crying because they have been taken for money that is from $5,000 to $50,000! They say, But I know his address and I saw his picture and I've talked to him. He's even talked to my children." And the agent said, "And I say to them. No, you don't know these things. Pictures and addresses are not real. You know nothing about this man (or woman, but it's mostly men preying on middle aged and older women)."
I then did what the man said and wrote his Yahoo address asking a few questions. His only replies were "Do you like being single?; How long have you been single? He never answered any of my questions. Although he said he was a widower, he didn't reply to my question: How long have you been a widow? Real widowers are delighted to talk about their dead spouses if the marriage was a good one leaving good memories! I finally wrote this to him: "Listen, I am very good at how I make my money (writing). You are really lousy at how you make yours, buddy." That was the last time I heard from him.
Don't settle for your cats. Join a church that has single events or a singles club. Volunteer in a hospital -- lots of men there. Volunteer in a food bank. Men who volunteer have good hearts. So do men who volunteer in animal rescue groups or SPCAs and Humane Societies. Yes, these methods always introduced me to nice men. I've just moved and thought I would cut corners but now I've given up my Match.com waste of time and am taking my own advice.
My dog is wonderful and affectionate but I deserve him -- and more. We all do. Have a great Sunday. Lane |
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