Morning.
"For the second time, some guy has contacted me wanting to chat and etc. Starts off rather innocent but then he escalates. Says he really liked my profile and he's in the military stationed overseas. He sends a couple of pics and askes for some of mine and talk about likes and dislikes and life in general. Suddenly he professes undying love and goes on and on about how we have a future together. He says he will be coming back to the US soon and wants to meet. After what he thinks is sufficient time, he says that he has requested leave and it was granted. Now he says that he has the funds to get to NYC or wherever and could I send some $$$ for him to fly for the meeting. Right now. I stringing the current soldier along and waiting for the big question.
Anytime some internet connection begins asking for money, it's a red flag. Granted, the military doesn't get paid the best, but still.... The only thing you can do is report him to the Fed and State Fraud units. If he really is serving in the U.S. armed forces and doing this as a scam, he'll be in some deep, deep shit if he's caught.
But, let's see what readers have to say.
Readers?
10 comments:
I'ts very catfishy.
I can understand the guy being short of money, honey. That's what Greyhound is there for.
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I don't get it. If someone you don't know....never met..and you only met on line for a briefly short time and ask for money already??? That should send a MAJOR RED FLAG. There is nothing to ponder over.
Definitely a long distance scam. Block him.
Many years ago on Gay411 a nice US military man messaged me to say he would like to begin a love story with me saying he was frrom NYC but now was deployed in Afghanistan.
We even sent some text messages on cellphone and many photos too.
Until he told me a special story about him having lot of money given to him by a wealthy man there and that he would send it to me in Montreal and asked me to get this parcel at the airport.
What happened after is that on Gay411 I talk to another man, from Montreal who was in love with the same guy.
After talking to him on telephone we discovered that this army guy had stolen the photos of another military man living in Michigan.
Also that his phone number was located in L.A.
You must be very careful on internet because many are trying to get you and ask for money using a love story.
I had several others too from Africa mainly from the Benin erea mostly young guys swearing love to me but after some message by email are asking money to be able to get an heritance they say etc..
So you have to be very very careful on those internet lovers..
To me, if you cannot come and meet me in real, no way I will pay a dime to those.
Whenever someone is serving overseas they dont need money to get back home. Military takes care of that. I for one had the same issue,i didnt fall victim to the person, they really try hard to charm us
I sooner spend the money to travel to him in NYC than send him money.
XOXO
Yeah, red flags.
Mark his mail as spam, don't answer any more messages is what I would do.
Wow! That's true catfishing as they call it in the U.S. Glad you managed to get free without losing anything.
Uncle Sam will pay to move him back to the states, but not for a leave. But this doesn't sound like that --- this sounds like he's saying he'd be back in the states and then asking for money to travel. These people can charm the pants off a snake.
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