Lobouspo Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Anyone been the victim/potential victim of a scan on an OLD sits? Tell me what you think of this please as I am looking for some input.......I started messaging this girl on OKC, and almost immediately she gave me her email address. Now this girl is 25 years old and drop dead gorgeous. Supposedly she is in London auditioning for a modeling agency. Her emails are long winded about how she wants to settle down and how I made her day by emailing her. Something seems just off about the whole thing. I was doing some research on OLD dating scams and a common one to be careful about is a fake profile with gorgeous pics and the person stranded overseas who eventually asks for money for help. Now this girl has not asked for money yet, but she did not give me a specific return date from London, or when or why she moved to my hometown despite my asking. Any advice on how I should proceed would be appreciated.
Author Lobouspo Posted August 20, 2012 Author Posted August 20, 2012 Sorry about the typos, I posted using my phone.
Imajerk17 Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 (edited) Anyone been the victim/potential victim of a scan on an OLD sits? Tell me what you think of this please as I am looking for some input.......I started messaging this girl on OKC, and almost immediately she gave me her email address. Now this girl is 25 years old and drop dead gorgeous. Supposedly she is in London auditioning for a modeling agency. Her emails are long winded about how she wants to settle down and how I made her day by emailing her. Something seems just off about the whole thing. I was doing some research on OLD dating scams and a common one to be careful about is a fake profile with gorgeous pics and the person stranded overseas who eventually asks for money for help. Now this girl has not asked for money yet, but she did not give me a specific return date from London, or when or why she moved to my hometown despite my asking. Any advice on how I should proceed would be appreciated. Might be a scam. What is her preferred age range? If her upper limit goes up to something above 45, beware. EDIT: Forgot to put this in, but this is big. How well-written is her profile and emails? A scam will usually have some really funny syntax (enough of them so you know it's not just a typo) and will capitalize incorrectly, while a legit profile won't have those egregious mistakes. Ask her for a phone number and see what happens. Edited August 20, 2012 by Imajerk17
Author Lobouspo Posted August 20, 2012 Author Posted August 20, 2012 Might be a scam. What is her preferred age range? If her upper limit goes up to something above 45, beware. EDIT: Forgot to put this in, but this is big. How well-written is her profile and emails? A scam will have some really funny syntax and will capitalize incorrectly. Ask her for a phone number and see what happens. Interestingly her profile is off OKC. I think her preferred age range was like 25 to 40. Good idea about asking for a phone number, I'll do that.
Imajerk17 Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 (edited) Interestingly her profile is off OKC. I think her preferred age range was like 25 to 40. Good idea about asking for a phone number, I'll do that. I edited my post to you. How is this woman's grammar and syntax in her emails? Any funny wording? The more I think about it, I am maybe 90% sure it's a scam. You can find out by asking her specific questions about when she is coming back from London, what made her move to your town, and so on. Ask for her phone number too. Edited August 20, 2012 by Imajerk17
carhill Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 It's pretty easy. Mention a few things about yourself unrelated to prior e-mails and ask a couple of questions of a general nature. Watch for the content of the reply to see if you are being addressed directly and specifically. I have a lot of experience with scammers from the CIS/FSU and found this to be a pretty easy first hurdle. Good luck. 2
Author Lobouspo Posted August 20, 2012 Author Posted August 20, 2012 I edited my post to you. How is this woman's grammar and syntax in her emails? Any funny wording? The more I think about it, I am maybe 90% sure it's a scam. You can find out by asking her specific questions about when she is coming back from London, what made her move to your town, and so on. Ask for her phone number too. The ones with the bad grammar and syntax are easy to flesh out..No bad grammar or syntax, but she has not given me a return date from Europe and just said she moved to my city "months" ago...I am pretty sure its a scam, but I kinda want to play along for a little out of sheer curiosity.
VodkaShots Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Are you emailing her through the site or through a normal email site (like Hotmail)? On most normal email providers there's a way where you can find out the IP address of the sender and you can put the IP address in one of those tracer websites where it will tell you the country and approximate region of where the IP comes from. So obviously if it comes up as something like "Prune, India" or some other place in Asia / Africa (or in fact, any place that's not consistent with what she's telling you) you know to run for the hills. Phone number is a good suggestion, but the best is to maybe get her to go on webcam or take a picture of herself holding todays newspaper (if she's in England it would be something like The Sun or the Daily Mail) or a piece of paper saying her name/username, time and date. If she takes great offence to this, she has something to hide, a genuine person would have no problems doing this if they were serious.
curlygirl40 Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 I'm thinking scam. I have a handful of guy friends who OLD and they tell me that when someone is on line scamming, their profile will usually disappear quickly because the site will get complaints and then shut the profile down. Which could explain why she almost immediately gave you a way for you to contact her off the site. If you want to give her the benefit of the doubt, you could just say 'send me an e-mail when you're back from London', and then leave it at that. I did have a girlfriend try to be scammed from a guy on Match. They struck up this textationship, then he claimed to be on a business trip and he got into an accident with his daughter and nanny and he asked her to wire him money. Once she told me the whole story I was surprised it took her that long to realize it was a scam. Widower with a daughter, seemed almost like stock pics, lived close by but never asked to meet her, had an out of state cell phone number 'for work reasons', etc. Good luck but my gut is saying it's not on the up and up. 1
oaks Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Now this girl is 25 years old and drop dead gorgeous. Supposedly she is in London auditioning for a modeling agency. I often find that the 'fake' profiles can be spotted by doing an image search to find other places on the Internet that use the same images and by drawing a conclusion based on what those other sites are. (For example, when the image shows up on a russian bride site and an escort site I tend to take the view that she's touting for business rather than looking for a date.)
jcrew11 Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Anyone been the victim/potential victim of a scan on an OLD sits? Tell me what you think of this please as I am looking for some input.......I started messaging this girl on OKC, and almost immediately she gave me her email address. Now this girl is 25 years old and drop dead gorgeous. Supposedly she is in London auditioning for a modeling agency. Her emails are long winded about how she wants to settle down and how I made her day by emailing her. Something seems just off about the whole thing. I was doing some research on OLD dating scams and a common one to be careful about is a fake profile with gorgeous pics and the person stranded overseas who eventually asks for money for help. Now this girl has not asked for money yet, but she did not give me a specific return date from London, or when or why she moved to my hometown despite my asking. Any advice on how I should proceed would be appreciated. Haha, its a scammer, probably some nigerian guy pretending to be a Hot Girl from some photos he found of models. Why would you want to date someone out of state anyways, its a sure fire clue that its a fake profile. I look up IP addresses of scam e-mails and usually its an fake IP address from the middle of Kansas. I get a lot of Scammer e-mails from Craigslist postings for Apartment hunting, saying that the landlord is away in London but mail him the security deposit there and he'll send the keys by mail, LOL. Its sad how scammer suck people into wiring thousands of dollars to strangers they have never even met in person. I don't really understand it, but their online IM game and text game must be amazing.
Author Lobouspo Posted August 20, 2012 Author Posted August 20, 2012 Haha, its a scammer, probably some nigerian guy pretending to be a Hot Girl from some photos he found of models. Why would you want to date someone out of state anyways, its a sure fire clue that its a fake profile. I look up IP addresses of scam e-mails and usually its an fake IP address from the middle of Kansas. I get a lot of Scammer e-mails from Craigslist postings for Apartment hunting, saying that the landlord is away in London but mail him the security deposit there and he'll send the keys by mail, LOL. Its sad how scammer suck people into wiring thousands of dollars to strangers they have never even met in person. I don't really understand it, but their online IM game and text game must be amazing. She's actually living in my hometown supposedly, but away in London for a "modeling audition"...The IP address thing is a good idea.
The Way I Am Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Like oaks said, if it's a scam, you'll probably find her pics on other sites that will give it away. Not many people seem to know this, but you can actually click on the camera icon in a Google Images search and upload the photo. It'll search for other places the image has been used and try to find similar images. The similar images search isn't very good yet, but I've had success in finding out for various reasons, like giving proper credit to artists, where images originated from.
thatone Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Dude really? Question for you: How many other overseas models have become suddenly infatuated with you in your lifetime? I'm guessing the answer is the same as me, slightly less than none. You can't hide desperate on a dating site. You can only find people who are looking to take advantage of it. 3
It's Just Me Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Dude really? Question for you: How many other overseas models have become suddenly infatuated with you in your lifetime? I'm guessing the answer is the same as me, slightly less than none. You can't hide desperate on a dating site. You can only find people who are looking to take advantage of it. I will second that and add, "How many drop-dead gorgeous models actually have to use OLD to get dates?" 1
FitChick Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Not many people seem to know this, but you can actually click on the camera icon in a Google Images search and upload the photo. It'll search for other places the image has been used and try to find similar images. I didn't know that! There is one guy on a dating website holding barbecue tongs who looks like he is straight out of a JC Penney ad. "Hey, Bob, come check out my new BBQ grill I bought for half price at Penney's."
todreaminblue Posted August 20, 2012 Posted August 20, 2012 Anyone been the victim/potential victim of a scan on an OLD sits? Tell me what you think of this please as I am looking for some input.......I started messaging this girl on OKC, and almost immediately she gave me her email address. Now this girl is 25 years old and drop dead gorgeous. Supposedly she is in London auditioning for a modeling agency. Her emails are long winded about how she wants to settle down and how I made her day by emailing her. Something seems just off about the whole thing. I was doing some research on OLD dating scams and a common one to be careful about is a fake profile with gorgeous pics and the person stranded overseas who eventually asks for money for help. Now this girl has not asked for money yet, but she did not give me a specific return date from London, or when or why she moved to my hometown despite my asking. Any advice on how I should proceed would be appreciated. the only time i hd an experience with fake personas was a guy who was dating multiple women I got sent yan email from a woman who had found otu he was on many sites and i there for didnt meet him....lucky me.....i have heard of what you are talking about happening....i dotn liek old for these reasons its too easy too be something or pretend to be something your not.People can also set up fake profiles to stalk you and find out personal things( i have known of this) and yes scammers are a worry too.....deb
jcrew11 Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 Also, don't give out too much personal information, like your address, real name, ssn, date of birth, home phone number, etc. While it might not be as successful as scamming, some of these nigerian guys have become good at hacking. They might take out credit cards in your name or mess up your life/blackmail you into other illegal activity. Their only job is to literally sit in a cybercafe all day and send scam e-mails and phishing e-mails for bank accounts and other stuff. Some of the scams involve re-shipping packages from other duped people.
yongyong Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 how do you look? If you could've gotten women like that in real life, you wouldn't be that surprised. obviously she is at least 3+ higher than you.
Art_Critic Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 . It'll search for other places the image has been used and try to find similar images. Tineye is another page that does the search..
CarrieT Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 I got scammed a few times and this one reeks of it - the first clue is wanting to take the conversation out of the site and to a Hotmail account almost immediately. The second clue is the person is often too good to be true. The third is that they are out of the country and unable to meet in person. Call her on it and you won't hear from here again - I guarantee it. 1
yongyong Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 I am sure it's one of those nigerian guys from the internet cafe in nigeria. can you imagine couple of them are looking at profile and laughing at how gullible you are?
mortensorchid Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 Once I was approached by someone through Match who, after we had moved our chats to a Yahoo IM, then said they wanted to go into business with me and did I want in? He said "we'll make a lot of money", I said "Not interested." Never heard from him again. I did know of two people who were taken in by website scams of some kind. Both were guys, BTW, communicating with women (or those who said they were women) overseas. One sent the person money for a plane ticket through PayPal to Russia, and of course never heard from them again. The second said that he was in contact with a woman who was an art dealer in Nigeria, and they needed a little somethin somethin for them to ship some art back to the States. He sent it, and then the person told them that they were actually a man and it went to some charity, etc. So be careful out there. The world's full of lonely people and there are lots who are going to take advantage of it.
Author Lobouspo Posted August 21, 2012 Author Posted August 21, 2012 Thanks guys....some good advice. I was pretty sure of it being bogus.....didn't mean to com:sick:e across as to pathetic!
The Way I Am Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 Did you look up the IP or images yet? I'm curious to know if either of those gave you confirmation that it's a scam.
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