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another one bites the dust: UK man scammed Ј16.000
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Posted by: ham

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6565125.stm

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he was fed up being a single man
A man from Kent is Ј16,000 poorer after falling in love with two women over the internet and waiting at airports five times for them to turn up in the UK.

I think i "met" that person online and he sounded like a nice man, not a lusty goat and not some opinionated clown.
Anyways buyer beware.

Posted by: martin3030

Wow unbelievable.......in the normal world ov course !

Posted by: Longfellow

Wow, 16,000 pounds!! He should have checked with United Parcel Service for a better rate to deliver his 'mail-order bride'.Did the travel insurance I'm sure he purchased have to pay the claim?

Posted by: ham

There are fear mongers, but idiocy mongers as well.
How many times around these forums one hears the patronizing tirade that only because s-he asks for money, it hasn't to be a scam? That probably s-he might just be a cinderella having none but her internet romeo ( met eight days earlier ) to turn to to "save her honor", or her daddy who is in bad need of medication or...?
Well, the man who " goes back and gets bitten again" is very likely a man who believes in the above explanations, or any twist on that line of thought.
I tend to apply the "parsimony principle" and go for the most likely explanation, namely that requests for money mean scam.
One in a million i might go wrong and miss a wonderful woman, but god knows how many i'm missing already because of poorly lit pictures or profiles cut three lines too short by agencies.
The above quotes just prove my point...these men are very likely chasing a delusion or fantasy of their own, however most of them probably believe soothing explanations put forward by idiocy mongers.
Those forewarning them are seen as "envious, bitter losers" (as if anybody really cared whether Pedro, Barney, Leroy or Wong go bankrupt...) and all they can see are the few cases of men claiming over the internet they sent huge amounts of money, put their women on an annuity for months, yet such women were real&honest and they are living happy ever after.
Once they are taken for a ride, everyone reminds them of their silly mistakes, and finger points the forest they couldn't see because of the trees.