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Reverse scam?
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Posted by: icarusi

I recently got an unsolicited contact via a social website which looked quite scammy but when I Googled it, it took me to a website of probable scams with the related pics. The name and place were there although not this particular pic *but* another pic was there (inc a Russian passport), which on the initial social website was attributed to a girl from London, no mention of Russia.

On the scam site it did mention that photos of genuine women are often used without consent which had me wondering what is it? Is it a genuine London girl? Pics of a Russian girl being posted by a Londoner pretending to be that girl or a phishing post collecting details pass to others.

I did comment and message the 'London' girl re one of her pics before seeing her pics on the scam site, but haven't received any messages back scammy or otherwise.

Any ideas?

Posted by: AkMike

Play it out but beware..
But IMO don't bother and look elsewhere. Why waste your time when your gut is telling you to move on.

Posted by: icarusi

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Originally Posted by AkMike

Play it out but beware..
But IMO don't bother and look elsewhere. Why waste your time when your gut is telling you to move on.

This is an interesting resource:-

http://www.delphifaq.com/outside_th...ating_scams.htm

I tried the picture search and none already posted there. I also Googled the email address and it only showed a couple of times, and not as a scam address.

Posted by: Stirlitz

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Originally Posted by AkMike

But IMO don't bother and look elsewhere. Why waste your time when your gut is telling you to move on.

Ditto. Forget about it.

Posted by: AkMike

You've posted several times in the scam section.. I want to know how many ladies you've written to? OK, The how many of them have turned out to be scammers?
If you've read any amount about scammers here then you know what the basic M.O.
is and you know the 10 commandments that'll CYA.. Right?
Get your feet wet and look around some.

Posted by: mistermopar

Quote:

Originally Posted by AkMike

You've posted several times in the scam section.. I want to know how many ladies you've written to? OK, The how many of them have turned out to be scammers?
If you've read any amount about scammers here then you know what the basic M.O.
is and you know the 10 commandments that'll CYA.. Right?
Get your feet wet and look around some.

100 % Mike 100%,
go with your gut.

Randy

Posted by: icarusi

Quote:

Originally Posted by AkMike

You've posted several times in the scam section.. I want to know how many ladies you've written to? OK, The how many of them have turned out to be scammers?

1 and 0 so far. All the Russian women I've met have been in my country. They were all a little on the fantasist side, like this contact, but many locals are too.

Quote:

If you've read any amount about scammers here then you know what the basic M.O.
is and you know the 10 commandments that'll CYA.. Right?
Get your feet wet and look around some.

I just got a recent message with no response to my specific queries about her town and weather, which my known genuine contact is always keen to talk about. She's also interested in things which I'm not, so my conscience is reasonably clear that I didn't act unfriendly to a genuine contact.

Posted by: AkMike

Good! Look for a common basis for a start. They probably won't do motorsports but they'll have something good going on. If you don't get aswers to specific questions after a bit move on.. It's possibly a scam in the making.

Posted by: icarusi

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Originally Posted by AkMike

Good! Look for a common basis for a start. They probably won't do motorsports but they'll have something good going on. If you don't get aswers to specific questions after a bit move on.. It's possibly a scam in the making.

Probably. The email content 'sounded' like it had been through an on-line translator, although she said she could speak English. Also the text had a strange format of a continuous block of single and broken sentences with no word wrapping or paragraph breaks (like blank verse). Don't know if that text format is typical or atypical, but very hard to work read.

Posted by: blucatz

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Originally Posted by icarusi

I wouldn't worry about the format too much. An email goes thru a number of servers before reaching you. It could loose a byte here and there and mess up the format of the letter. Have you ever seen an email that has been forwarded a bunch of times? Same thing, the format gets messed up a little bit with spaces and lines not lining up, paragraphs not matching the letter, things like that. I would concentrate more on what the content of the email is. Kinda sounds like a scam letter to me if she's not addressing your questions and talks about things out of the blue.

41 Days till Egypt

Posted by: icarusi

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Originally Posted by blucatz

An email goes thru a number of servers before reaching you. It could loose a byte here and there and mess up the format of the letter. Have you ever seen an email that has been forwarded a bunch of times? Same thing, the format gets messed up a little bit with spaces and lines not lining up, paragraphs not matching the letter, things like that.

I haven't seen anything quite like that, although I haven't received an email via an online translator. I do know some forum posters who use big slabs of unbroken text and others who use short sentences always on new lines though.

I did speak to my known Russian contact today and she asked about the weather first!