Romance safari to Lagos - advice please

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 24

Ive been stringing along a lad for a few weeks who is trying the romance scam on me. Ive had several successful 419 scam baits with great trophy pics ( see www.crazymum.com for the hall of shame ) but the romance bait angle is new to me. I got these 2 pics out of him...

so now i want to send him on safari. Ive read many of the hilarious safari stories here - but Im wondering how far I can get him to travel without there being the lure of thousands of dollars. As far as he is concerned I am a lonely English woman who wants to come out and get a hotel with him for a week. No mention of cash from him yet.

So Im looking for ideas as to how to play this.
Hes given me his full address (allegedly) as being Egbeda-Akowonjo, Lagos. I could claim to have flown into Lagos and hired a hotel that I'll randomly pick from here:
http://www.good-hotels-guide.com/africa/nigeria/maps/nigeria-hotels.htm - but Im sure I can do something more. The question is "what?"

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:11 pm

Moved here.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 65

Crazy mum
Why are you going there? They All want to come here. They all want to come here even if it is just to visit. Is money his problem in not coming to visit you. If you decide to go there for a visit. Have him pay for a room for you at the Sheraton, and refuse to stay anywhere else. Ask for confirmation of the room being paid for and make the call to the hotel. It is very expensive, but the only one you would feel most compfortable staying in.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:15 pm

No, no, no. You don't fly to Lagos. You fly to Ghana or Burkina Faso or somewhere that you have always wanted to go. You have him meet you there at the airport. You will make the hotel reservations and all of the necessary accomadations, he just has to meet you there. Tell him you are bringing him some wonderful gifts- laptops, cell phones, digital camers, etc. When he asks to fly to Lagos, tell him you want him to meet you in (insert country here), it has been a dream of yours.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:33 pm

Find out if there is any "romantic" places you can actually go to in Ghana first ... it will be more believable

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 7103 Location: Yes

And when you find out, let this guy know too: http://hobotraveler.com/ro_ghanaromance.php

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:57 pm

My current scammer from Ghana assures me that it is a risky free environment, that there are tons of wonderful sites to see. Maybe he could be your travel guide!

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:31 am

this is my favourite flight to Nigeria:

LH565 from Frankfurt to Akkra, with stopover in Lagos
a good opportunity to "sleep in" and miss the exit point.
Then send out a cry for help fron Akkra: blabla.. only him you trust etc.

check if Airlines also do this kind of stopover from GB.

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:40 pm

^^^^^

I do a similar one... fly from Gatwick via Tripoli to Accra
get confused by all that swirly writing in Tripoli airport and end up on a wrong plane that spits you out in Lome, Togo
meet a 'friendly' taxi driver who lets you stay at his house (this avoids the need for giving out the number of a hotel)
Arrange to meet your lad in the lobby of the Hotel 2nd February

http://www.corinthiahotels.com/hotel.asp?h=30

remind him of all the gifts you have for him
Let his greed and testosterone levels do the rest
Laughing

Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 24

ok - ive got my guy thinking im flying to abuja instead. ive said that i couldnt get a flight to lagos, so he will have to come and meet me there ( a 9 hour bus journey ) instead.
so my flight arrives on saturday morning (April fools day!) at 4:15 am.
he has, of course, asked me to send $150 for the cost of his bus journey up there - im just going to say theres no time and i'll pay him back when he arrives.

so hopefully we will have a mugu stood in a airport arrivals lounge at 04:15 holding a sign for me.
shame i cant be there to witness it really!

Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 24

So the gigs finally up with this guy! I got him to travel 9 hours to Abuja and wait for me at the airport. He then travelled another 40km to the hotel I was supposed to be staying at and hung around for the weekend before giving up and returning to Lagos.
I responded to all of his "where are you?" emails by simply sending a link to the definition of April Fools day on Wikipedia.
This is the highlights of what the whining bitch wrote back...

"you did play me an april fool, how could you have done that to me, that is too much to bear ,if it is April full.you made me suffer for nothing, and i had to be broke now and be in doudt also. that is too much....

i am really speechless at this point. i don,t even know what to say. do , i tell my good friend that i have told that i am going to see you In Abuja that you play an April fool on me, how will he relate that. that is just too much pain to bear , if i must say.i have to go to bed now.

i know you have changed your mind on me,but you hurt my lve for you.my bottom is giving me pains now4 sitting for long for the journey to Abuja,that is the (Ass own to my crazymum).hy would you hurt me so bad."

So I slapped him and told him that he is an April Foooooooooool!

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:51 pm

son of crazymum wrote:

I got him to travel 9 hours to Abuja and wait for me at the airport. He then travelled another 40km to the hotel
hung around for the weekend before giving up and returning to Lagos.
"you did play me an april fool,
.you made me suffer for nothing, and i had to be broke now

my bottom is giving me pains now4 sitting for long for the journey to Abuja

Priceless!!! Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 7103 Location: Yes

His bottom is going to be giving him more pains when he reports back to his maga about his failed journey....

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 14 Oct 2011 Posts: 6

Do not kick his ass.

or else, you have to ask your shoe back.

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:40 pm

Welcome eelsmoker,

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