Have any of you ladies (and gentlemen) been scammed for money in the past few months? How did you resolve it?

William Roberts, so he says, contacted me through Cupid.com saying he was stuck in Nigeria without any money as he contracted to do a construction job there. He has his son Mike there with him…so he says. We were chatting on Yahoo Messenger…he uses hearts as a background saying all kinds of sweet words and that he has been looking for me all his life. Also, said he’s originally from Germany and then North Carolina…parents are dead…no family, etc., etc. You get the picture. Believe he is Nigeriana and using a fake picture. Have you been scammed? It’s not pretty!

Been there. I had at least 4 men contacting me with the exact same story and knew they were scams because my friend’s mother lost over £5000 to one of them she thought was her fiance. Her daughter kept telling her it was a scam but she refused to listen thinking this man was coming back to London to marry her once his contract in Nigeria was finished. It was only after she heard he was ambushed on his way to the airport and was in a coma in hospital and a ‘doctor’ asked for money for surgery that her daughter called the British High Commission who confirmed there was no hospital by that name, no UK citizen by that name with a Nigerian visa, no company with the name he said he worked for
to stay safe on dating sites, dont continue talking to anyone you cant meet right away. The minute they say they are working overseas move on to someone else, it will almost always be a scam. If they cant meet you after a few emails, they are either married and just flirting online for fun or a scammer.
And never use messenger, always go thru the dating site or set up a separate email address for online dating. With messenger, there is no way to track the IP address of the sender so they could be contacting you from anywhere – saying they are in the UK but are actually in Ghana.And there is no record of your conversations if you ever need to get the police involved. So anyone that suggests messenger that you have never met is normally a scam. Once you meet in person and knwo the person is legit then you could use messenger, but never before. If someone says they are overseas, tell them you are not interested in a long distance relationship and to get back in contact only when they are in your city, not before. Cut them off before they start sending you too many messages