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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 28 Jun 2011 Posts: 10

one minute shes in Nigeria I think..turns out nah, I think shes really in America because she got something from me in America..could someone please pm me their messenger details because I need to talk to someone who knows what they are talking about because this is confusing on wether she is a scammer or not I've never seen it before

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:24 am

Wouldn't mind re-writing that in coherrant English?
Bit of grammar wouldn't go astray rather than text speak either....

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:03 am

She's most likely in Nigeria with a mule shipping stuff to her.

That's the simple explanation without knowing more of what you write.

The more involved and complicated explanation involves numerous IP traces, header reading and personal advice, which can be yours upon receipt of a valid MTCN made out through either WU or MG for $10,000 Wink

Or Pastor Frank may let you gaze upon and into his Crystal Ball.

Shocked

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:22 am

con2011

Try Googling a few lines from "her" first email to you. A lot of formats show up online. May show you that "she's" a scammer.

If you're still worried, you can PM the details and I'll take a look at them for you.
Like Irish says though, if you sent something in America, it's almost certainly gone through a mule and then been shipped on to Africa.

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:24 am

Stoney wrote:

Wouldn't mind re-writing that in coherrant English?

The word you're looking for is "coherent".
It should also be "Would you mind" not "Wouldn't mind" as the former doesn't make sense in this context.
If you're going to be a grammar Nazi, at least get it right yourself.

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:35 pm

^^^

Quote:

If you're going to be a grammar Nazi, at least get it right yourself.

OOH I do like it when you get strict.

Sorry just had to comment. Twisted Evil

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 28 Jun 2011 Posts: 10

ok a mule...but I've found someone with the name that she gave me living just around the corner from the address she gave me? so I could be onto something here

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Is this correspondence occurring on a personal email account, or a baiting account. If it is a personal account, stop all contact.

Is there a way for you to post the emails, blanking out any personal information. (headers would also be nice) You have piqued my curiosity.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 28 Jun 2011 Posts: 10

I should also add that one of the pictures she showed me, was taken not far from the address that she gave me. I believe theres something alot deeper going on here than just some guy sitting over in another country. I think maybe they are using these girls..but I can't be sure until this person answers her phone. and I don't have no emails sorry, it was mostly on messenger

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

con2011 wrote:

I don't have no emails sorry, it was mostly on messenger

Can you take a screen shot? I can walk you through the process if it's needed.

You say "mostly on messenger", were there other types of contact?

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:09 pm

While many people act as if scammers are complete idiots, the truth is, they aren't. The more organized scammers or those in gangs may have very well-planned stories, and they may have actually chosen their location, etc. carefully. It's not uncommon for scammers to use names and information about real people in their scams. They can use information provided by former victims, real people's facebook or other social networking pages, or even directory sites like whitepages.com. Agreement between names and locations does not mean that the person you are writing to is not a scammer.

As far as photos go, if a scammer is using stolen facebook or myspace information, he may very well have access to plenty of photos that agree with his story. Sadly, millions of people post large volumes of personal information for the whole world to see, and they don't think twice about it.

Or, if a scammer uses photos of a porn actress (which is very common), by collecting photos and footage from various porn sites, he may have accumulated hundreds of photos and hours of video footage, which can be used to provide a more convincing story, and even to fake webcam.

When you are chatting with someone, language and the general story they give you are actually much better indicators of whether you are dealing with a scammer than the photos they send and the address they use.