Beautifully written French letter but suspicious !

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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:47 pm

I am 99.9% sure this is a scam. It came from someone who appeared on my MSN messenger. She claims to be 29 years old, Belgian, in West Africa on a work trip (alarm signals) but lives in Switzerland, and according to the photos she sent me she is white, and attractive, but not model material or anything outstanding.

The MSN conversation was in English but for some reason she's sent me the email in French. I checked this out with a friend who's a native French speaker and she says that the French is very cultured, educated and correct, so this would seem to rule out the normal scammers.

Obviously she did not sit and write this long email for me, it's a carefully crafted and beautifully written letter, maybe not even original.

I am just curious to see what others may have to say about this.

Quote:

Coucou‏
From: xxxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxxxx)
You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:38:16 AM
To: [email protected]
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Coucou,
C’est encore moi Bounard Marcelle et comme promis, j’ai décidé de te faire ce mail qui représente beaucoup pour moi sur le plan sentimental et moral parce que c’est des confidences que je vais te faire. Oui, des confidences qui sont motivées par ce sérieux que tu affiches, cette sincérité, cette grande présence de maturité et surtout cette envie de créer, de construire et de chasser la monotonie de ta vie. Je dirai tout simplement que je te fais confiance.a

Alors comment vas tu ce matin? J’espère que tu te portes bien et que tout va bien chez toi à la mesure de tes attentes et espérances et que la journée a très bien commencé pour toi.
Tu sais mon cher, j’ai toujours souhaité rencontré quelqu’un dans ton genre, c'est-à-dire, quelqu’un qui est plus ou moins rodé par la vie et ses expériences, rodé par l’amour et ses épines, et qui a réussi quelque soit le coup dur porté par l’amour ou la vie, à se relever et positiver.
Tu sais mon cher, c'est encore un honneur et un vrai plaisir de me laisser découvrir, de t'exposer des aspects de ma vie, de mon passé, de me confier à toi, de te parler de mon vécu et de mes aspirations pour que tu me comprennes mieux.
Tu sais, je vais jouer encore la carte de la franchise, de l’honnêteté et de la sincérité et te faire des confidences sur ma personne, sur ma vie amoureuse, sur la vie de cette fille avec qui tu corresponds et qui a aussi envie d'avoir confiance en toi et qui te respecte beaucoup pour ta franchise aussi, pour ta sincérité, pour l'effort que tu mets dans notre relation naissante, cette fille qui a foi en un lendemain meilleur et qui veut simplement vivre et repartir de nouveau et connaître aussi le bonheur et des moments d'intenses joies et bonheur. Tu sais, c’est important pour moi tout ce que tu dit, tu m'as démontré ta sincérité et ton expérience, ta clairvoyance d'esprit et ton intelligence et aussi ta politesse et tes bonnes manières.
Je vais alors me laisser aller et exprimer mes sentiments et ma conception de la vie et de l’amour pour que tu saches très bien ce que j'attends d'un homme, ce que j'attends de la vie, de l'amour.
Tu sais mon cher, la vie nous réserve beaucoup de surprises et on n’évite pas les voies qui mènent vers la destinée. Te parler de moi, dans un passé proche, serait très prétentieux et même impossible, mais tu m’inspires confiance parce que tu as été ouvert et franc avec moi.
parler de moi, dans un passé proche, serait très prétentieux et même impossible, mais tu m’inspires confiance parce que tu as été ouvert et franc avec moi.
Pour revenir à ma vie moi-même à proprement parlé, je résumerai en te disant que j’ai longtemps été la proie d’hommes "cruels", méchants, égoïstes, machiavéliques qui m'ont montré leur vrai face à la mort de mes parents et qui ne pensaient aussi qu’à assouvir leurs bas désirs et passions. Les gens ont toujours voulu me mettre en un laps de temps dans leur lit. Dans un temps record, c’était toujours le sexe leur seul problème, abuser de moi, le désir sexuel et moi j'ai toujours dit NON, NON et NON, raison pour laquelle je me retrouve aujourd'hui seule et vivant chez une copine et dans ces conditions, des conditions que je n'approuvent pas, mais je n'ai pas le choix. Et l’amour vrai dans tout cela ? Le vrai amour, l'amour platonique, l'amour des sentiments merveilleux? L'AMOUR de l'éternité?
Moi j’ai toujours voulu quelqu’un qui pourra m’aimer profondément et sincèrement pour ce que je suis. Certes le sexe est important dans un couple, mais je crois qu’il doit se faire avec l’acceptation du cœur, avec la volonté du cœur. On ne doit procréer sans amour. Et l’acte sexuel pour moi de manière pratique doit être la communion parfaite de deux êtres, l’appel de deux âmes qui se désirent, qui se cherchent.
Pour moi, la vie à deux, l’amour c’est lorsqu’il est bon de savoir qu’après une dure journée de travail, on rentrera le cœur joyeux, sachant que l’on retrouvera un sourire, un regard tendre, faire un bon repas en tête à tête et parler de tout et de rien, de nos soucis quotidiens, de nos moments de joie, puis se coucher et se regarder et se laisser envahir par la passion de l’amour, se toucher et se caresser lentement et tendrement. Puis laisser nos corps se témoigner tout leur amour. On s’enlace, on sens toute la douceur des moindres parcelles de nos corps respectifs et on sent le cœur et la chair qui s’appellent, on tremble chacun tellement c’est fort, et on se laisse abandonner dans nos ébats amoureux où on savoure chaque minute, chacun de nos mouvements, nos corps ne font plus qu’un et nous unissons toute notre énergie jusqu’à l’extase, où nos esprits et nos corps savourent ces sentiments indescriptibles de l’amour de deux êtres qui s’aiment et qui se donnent sans réserve.
Voilà à quoi je rêve ! Voilà mon fantasme et ma vision de l’amour et de la vie à deux. Excuse moi, mais j’essaie de traduire de manière fidèle ce que je ressens du fond de mon âme et il fallait que tu le saches et surtout que tu saches à quoi t'en tenir parce que j'ai peur d'être blessée, j'ai peur de souffrir encore et de me frotter aux épines de l'amour, de la vie .J'espère que je ne vais pas t'effrayer (sourire) mais j'en ai connu des vertes et des pas mûres.
Une fois de plus je te remercie de me faire confiance, cela me touche ; et saches que je ne fais qu'être naturelle et je tiens à rester ce que je suis. Moi aussi j’aimerais de tout cœur, si tu le savais, que notre rencontre devienne une belle histoire d’amour qui aboutira sûrement à l’amour vrai et sensuel, dans lequel on envisagera beaucoup de choses ensemble.
Eh bien, je peux te le dire franchement que moi aussi j’en ai envie, j’ai envie qu’on poursuive ensemble et main dans la main les choses merveilleuses que l’amour peut nous proposer, qu’on frappe tous les deux à la porte de l’amour, du bonheur et de l’éternité. Ne dit on pas qu’aimer c’est dire à l’autre qu’il ne mourra jamais ? excuse moi, je suis folle (sourire)
Sur ce, je vais te laisser, et je m’excuse encore pour ce long et très long message, mais il fallait que j’extériorise de manière fidèle mon moi profond, ce qui est au fond de moi et de toutes les manières, moi je n'aspire qu'au bonheur, je n'aspire qu'à une vie meilleure, je n'aspire qu'à une vie de couple et de foyer, une vie de famille dans lequel la confiance existerait et l'amour serait le maître mot. J'ai tout simplement envie de repartir sur de nouvelles bases et faire profiter avec l'être que j'aime de tout ce qui es au fond de moi, de tout ce que j'ai à donner comme amour.
Tendrement.

Here is a Google translation. It's not very good but you'll get the gist.

It's still me Bounard Marcelle and as promised, I decided to make you this email that's too much for me in the sentimental and moral because it's confidences that I'll do. Yes, confidences that are motivated by the seriousness that you posters, that sincerity, the presence of maturity and especially the urge to create, build and drive the monotony of your life. I simply say that I make confiance.

So how do you this morning? J'espère que tu te portes bien et que tout va bien chez toi commensurate with your expectations and hopes that the day started well for you.

You know my dear, I always wanted to meet someone in your type, ie, someone who is more or less run by life and experience, run by the love and thorns and has succeeded whatever the blow by the love and life, stand up and positive.

You know my dear, it's still an honor and a pleasure to let me discover, t'exposer aspects of my life, my past, I entrust to you, you talk about my life and my aspirations so that you understand me better.

You know, I'll still play the card of the franchise, honesty and sincerity and make confidences on my person, my love life, the life of this girl who you corresponds with and who also want to have confidence in you and respect you very much for your honesty, too, for your sincerity, for the effort you put in our budding relationship, the girl who has faith in a better tomorrow and who just wants to live and start again and also know the happiness and moments of intense joy and happiness. You know, it's important for me what you said, you show me your sincerity and your experience, your vision of your mind and your intelligence and your politeness and good manners.

I will then let me go and express my feelings and my view of life and the love that you know very well what I expect of a man, what I expect of life, love .

You know my dear, life holds many surprises and it does not avoid the paths that lead to destiny. You talk about me in the recent past, would be very pretentious and even impossible, but trust me you because you were open and frank with me.

about me, in the recent past, would be very pretentious and even impossible, but trust me you because you were open and frank with me.
To return to my life myself, strictly speaking, I will summarize by saying that I have you long been the prey of men "cruel, wicked, selfish, Machiavellian who have shown their true face to the death of my parents and who also felt that satisfy their low desires and passions. People have always wanted to put me in a short period of time in bed. In record time, sex was always the only problem, abuse me, sexual desire and I have always said NO, NO and NO, why I now find myself alone and living with a girlfriend and in these conditions, conditions that I did not, but I have no choice. And true love in all this? True love, platonic love, love wonderful feelings? LOVE of eternity?

I have always wanted someone to love me deeply and sincerely for what I am. While sex is important in a couple, but I think it must be with the acceptance of the heart with the intention of the heart. It should procreate without love. And the sexual act for me in practice should be the perfect communion of two beings, the appeal of two souls who wish to be looking for.

For me, life as a couple, love is when it is good to know that after a hard day's work, return the joyful heart, knowing that we will find a smile, a tender look, make a good meal face to face and talk about everything and nothing, our worries, our moments of joy, then lie down and watch and be overwhelmed by the passion of love, touching and caressing slowly and tenderly. Then let our bodies express their love. On s'enlace, it contains all the sweetness of lower body parts of our respective and we feel the heart and the flesh that is called, it shakes everyone is so strong, and we are left abandoned in our lovemaking where savored each minute, each of our movements, our bodies become one and we unite our energies to the ecstasy, where our minds and our bodies enjoy these indescribable feelings of love of two beings who would love and give without reservation.

Here is what I dream! This is my fantasy and my vision of love and life together. Excuse me, but I try to faithfully translate what I feel from the bottom of my soul and it was that you know and especially that you know what to take away because I am afraid of being injured, I'm afraid to suffer and still rub me the thorns of love, of life. I hope I will not t'effrayer (smile) but I have seen green and not ripe.

Once again thank you to trust me, it touches me, and know that I do that being natural and I want to remain what I am. Me too I want with all my heart, if you knew that our meeting be a beautiful love story that surely lead to true love and sensual, which we consider many things together.
Well, I can tell you frankly that I also I want, I want to be together and continue together the wonderful things that love can suggest, that affects both at the door of love, happiness and eternity. Do we not say that to say it to another that will never die? excuse me, I'm crazy (smile)
On this, I'll leave you, and I apologize again for this long and very long message, but that it was fairly j'extériorise my inner self, which is basically me and all ways, me I aspire that happiness, I aspire to a better life, I aspire to a marriage and home, family life in which trust and love, there would be watchword. I just want to start afresh on a new basis and with the advantage being that I love all that are in my heart, everything that I like to give love.

Message headers resolve to Ivory Coast.

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Master Baiter Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 192

I agree. Scam in any language. I'd respond by saying I don't speak french, and ask that the entire email be translated into english for me. Maybe your French friend will have a live conversation with him/her to see if it's language skills are the same as in the email.

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:46 pm

It is now getting interesting.

After some more MSN conversations in which she promised me undying love and lots of sex, and showed signs of a jealous nature, she was robbed yesterday in Abidjan and can't pay her hotel bill. Never heard that one before! She gave me the hotel's number - a cellphone ... and when I challenged that she said it's the private number of the manager. She can't leave the hotel until the bill is paid and she's dying to get back to Europe to be in my arms!

She still has her air ticket to come back to Europe but the flight details she gave me don't match with a booking..... but she still loves me. She's painting herself into a corner.

I'll post more later.

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:57 am

This has been interesting.

She wants me to send her $500 via Western Onion or Moneyscam.

I've told her I'll pay her hotel bill for her if I can pay direct to the hotel's bank account or by credit card, against a faxed/scanned copy of her bill.

That won't work because it's a private hotel, doesn't have a bank account, doesn't accept credit cards. Oh, and it's new so they can't print bills yet.

She can't understand why I can't find her booking in the airline reservation system. It's very simple, it doesn't exist. But she can't send me a copy of her e-ticket or itinerary with the details because she didn't get one when she bought the ticket.

She can't fax me a copy of her passport because there isn't a single internet shop in Abdijan that has a fax or a scanner that works.

She can't understand why I doubt her love for me and her story. I've told her I have no doubts at all, I have a 100% certainty that she's a scammer. The sarcasm of course has gone over her head.

Last night she 'borrowed' a webcam and contacted me via Messenger texting and showed me a blonde woman, half dressed, lying (in both senses of the word) on a bed. It was actually a photograph and she kept moving it to make it look as if she was moving! I could see it was totally static and when I said 'smile' or 'wave to me' she said she couldn't she was too sore and upset.

What's odd about this is that most of them would have given up by now, but this one is sticking to me like shit to a blanket. She must really love me. Maybe I'll get a shag!

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:15 am

falnsb wrote:

She must really love me. Maybe I'll get a shag!

Well she's already sent you a French letter Wink

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:20 pm

Wow - a picture she moved around -- lmfao

I've gotten my share of "too dark to see" web cam meetings, or the web cam had problems...and spend an hour waiting for them to get things right - but never a moving picture !!!

It can take quite a bit to make them go away once they think you're interested...there is one I'm tired of, I keep heaping insults on him, told him I made love to a friend of mine who I'm getting more interested in...told him to go away & leave me alone, he's not the man for me...and more...and he still asked me the other night for 300$ for his phone & internet bills...that caused a large argument lmao...

I've called a couple a scammer & pointed out some of the more obvious lies & they will deny it & act offended -- and want forgiveness for their confusion...and if you bring it up again they'll say 'that's behind us now'
I end up keeping them around...and slap them a lot ...

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