Quote From: jmu1313I received a message from a handsome guy in Manhattan, NY. He said, "Your the One!!! I love your eyes, again "Your the one."Instant love for you. He suggested I go to Yahoo Chat to instant message, so I did. I used another name(for safety). We when on and on in poetry like phrases to each other. I remained cautious but I have to admit I was having fun. Yes, I gave hi my limited address next I received 12 red roses long stem with these wild greens and a large box of expensive chocolates and a Teddy Bear., 3 ballons one with I love you and one with a smile and a mauve one. I had mised feelings. Now remember he contacted me through a system for the deaf called IP-Relay. He would call and say go on line. We did and it would continue with all this poetice love emotions and desires nothing obsence. He then said he had sad news that he had to go to GHANA< AFRICA and had to leave in the morning and would not be back for a month and would stop to see me on the way back. Would I stay with him. I said yes. Then when he supposedly got there he called me thru IP-Relay to go on line and instant messaged me that he needed some items asap. He was very specific and how he wanted them sent. He downloadr=ed exactly what he wanted. It was about 500.00 dollars worth of clothing, boots, 10 polo shirts, and colon, and a DVD( very specific to what kind. Well, I took this with a grain of sand. I told him/they that I had trouble sending them and he got frustrated and "sad," I di not hear from him for about 3 days I emailed him the I would do it exactly like he said, but I lied. He wanted thses things sent to a Box number in Accra, Ghana. I told him no onw would let me sent it to a box number. He insisted on it going USPO service-they will send to a box number. At the same time I felt something fishy so I went back to his site on Match.com IT WAS A DIFFERENT GUY!!!!!! Nothing even like him!!!! My body quivered, I felt chills. I went into Accra, Ghana on the internet and a few people shared there visit there. I got hold of a lovely married woman who she and her family had livein Ghana for 2 yrs. and I told her my story. She said ther are alotof scams into Accra, GHana now. It happened to her. She said BE CAREFUL!!! So, I sent one shirt. This Mark(they Guy I met) sent me again the same wonderful long stem roses ect. saying he was sorry for the trouble he was causing me. He said did you send the package 2x. I said yes he sould get it in 3-4 days. In the mean time I called the Florist to find out what number was called by this Mark SMith, he said the call came out of Los Angeles!!!!!!!! I had the packaged stopped at John F> Kennedy Airport. I received a call fro Security there and they had my package and I would receive it back in am. The guy Inspector I spoke to said this happenes all the time but it is usaually out of Nygeria. He said this is sarey now that it's happening out of Ghana now!!!!!
He said what they do is get the products, sell in to the BLACK MARKET and then the money goes to TERRORISTS for their funds. I played alittle longer with Mark Smith and at 11:30 pm our time on east coast, it would be 2:30am in Ghana and he said he had a terrible accidernt and needs emergency surgery and the doctoes won't do it until he pays $5500.00 and he only has
2,000. I asked him if he was paralyzed and he said yes. Now How could he be typing to me in a crital unit at 2:30am in his bed and he is paralyzed???? I played along and said I did not have that type of money available now and I would contact his job, family etc. and he said said no family and self-emplyed and has bad credit. His salary range in profile said he made over 100,000. I said Mark Your piciture on your profile is a different man and then I disconnected.
He tried to contact me 17 times at 4:30am his time whil in the hospital and in critical condition. Ya, right. I did not ansewr the calls and notified Match.com of scam and emailed them with examples of Marks instant messages he wrote me and the download of items he wanted.
I notified IP-Relay of the scam andt that this guy/group is abusing your system.
I notified local police and wrote toChannel 6 and 3.
Again the flowers were ordered put f LOS Angeles.
What a sam but I caught him, I instant messaged him that the FBI has been monitoring his sight among others and watching the behavior and that I was contacted to play along until we could catch the real group. I neve heard from him and he never call again.
"
Hello all,
My husband was emailing some girl from Nigeria. He was sending her lots of money. She in turn was sending him nude pictures. They exchanged poetry. She mostly liked to IM him. They met in a chat room. Once I exposed both of them, he stop emailing her. Now she is emailing me. She is asking me for all kinds of money. Everyday it's for something different. My husband believes every word that she says. However, I am furious. My husband is very intellegent. How could these people invade us like this. How do we stop them???
(Original Air Date: 09/28/06) It begins on a dating Web site with flattering e-mails and IMs with handsome photos attached. The man pours on the charm and soon professes love, but he needs money -- to pay medical bills, fund investments and, most importantly, to get back home to the States and finally meet his long-distance love. Is his love for real, or just an elaborate con? Despite being taken for thousands of dollars in bogus money orders, Dee-Dee believes the man she knows as Cole just needs to get home from Nigeria to make good on his debts and marry her. Then, Annette is sure she's being deceived by a man who claims to be a contractor in Africa, but that doesn't stop her from sending him money. Have these women really fallen in love or just fallen for an international scam? Share your own online dating stories and talk about the show here.
