I met a scammer!!!!!!
By freda529
@freda529 (136)
China
December 8, 2008 12:57am CST
I met a man online about 2 month ago.He's a scammer and I never believed him.I'm here write down the story just to warn my dear mylotters be careful of this sort of ppl.
At first he sent a message to me to ask if I could be his friend.Then I replied yes,cuz I wanna meet new ppl so I signed up on that website.But not for relationship or flirting or something,just friend,communicating life stories or cultures or anything meaningful or interesting.And later,he added me on yahoo messenger.He asked me to show him via webcam.I answered I hadn't cam.He said it's ok.I thought he might be a nice guy cuz so many men just wanna see your face or your body or something-_- a few days later,he said he found he had fallen in love with me.I suddently felt so strange.I don't believe that so I said something others to him.and then he said he would send me some xmas gifts.I didn't know what I thought at that time.I gave him the add.It's just a mail add. not my home add.So I think it's not a big deal and I can see what he wanna do.Then things happened.He sent me a recipt to prove he has sent the package.When I saw the recipt,I freezed.The fare is 580 pounds.It's huge to me.But quickly,I sent him a reply to apologize my suspetion.A week later,I got a call.It's very strange cuz the call was from Malaysia and also got an email.The guy told me my package is wrong diversion and bad law.So I should give them a reply how to handle my package.If I send them $1250 for security and avenue,then they will transfer the package to me immediately,or they will give the package to the custom.Then I replied I didn't care how they would deal with the package and told them their mistakes in it,So I didn't believe them.
The other day,the guy met me online and said he would send them part of the charge and I pay the rest.I didn't answer him.He's absolutely a scammer.
11 responses
@vivian642008 (71)
• China
9 Dec 08
in our country,people often said,love and hate always has reason.there is no cake falling from the sky.so you must avoid giving your add for a stranger next time.
@busyB4 (874)
• United States
9 Dec 08
I cannot say NEVER trust online folks because I have been fortunate to meet some very kind people online that I have met in person and one that I haven't but we have been close friends for about 7 yrs now!
It is good though that you warned of your scammer to make others aware that this kind of thing can happen. I have heard of other scams that occured online. One was a real estate deal where this person saw the house online and wanted to buy her house sight unseen and her to give address and such , and she gave her work address , found out it was a scam. FOrtunately , she had a sheriff in her family and he informed her of what steps to do for them to track this scammer.
@mariposaman (2959)
• Canada
8 Dec 08
People like that make it difficult for the rest of the people online. I am getting more than a little tired of all the scammers who think I am fair game for the illegal activities. I come online to socialize and learn and find the dark side rearing its head with scams and viruses.
What was your address again, I have an expensive package for you ... 
@chennai_b07 (640)
• India
8 Dec 08
From this story, it clearly says that, do not belive any of the online people.. Even though some of the people are very much genuine by chating and discuss about them selves in genuines in nature.. but that too we feel that, to have a doubt about them too.. because of some of the people like this fellow..
Because of the very few people like this, we just ignore the all other genuine people in sometimes.. this is unavoidable.. if we need to be safe, we supposed to be in cautions..
because by chating, or by watching a person in the webcam, we cannot come to the conclution that, he may be in genuine..
So, it is always better to chat with all the online people, if it is a guy or girl.. it is always aviod to get any gift, or something like this, may create a problem like this..
Please be care full with others..
This is the lesson to all people like us.. Thanks for sharing this info with us.. because, most of the people are hesitate to share this type of the incidents, which was happend to them.. you are really great.. I really appreciate you for this reason.
Have a good day.
@freda529 (136)
• China
8 Dec 08
You are right.I like exchanging something with my pals.So I didn't think too much at that time.But actually,he's not a friend.I bet I was dizzy when I heard he would send me a xmas gift.How superficial I am!But in fact,mostly I don't like that.Anyway,I think it's a lesson although I didn't lose something this time.But it never happen again.
@rainmark (4302)
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8 Dec 08
Yes i do agree with you, that sometimes we really need to take extra careful and don't ever trust the people online. Doing our chatting online must be done by extra careful who knows maybe one day someone will going to blackmail us and take advantage to those important information we share to them.
Happy posting.
@Beruang (1309)
• Malaysia
9 Dec 08
Wow! Thanks for sharing your experience. That's why I would never accept things from strangers and I would never do any online transaction with people that I do not know in person. At the same time, I stay away from unknown sites and if I need to do anything online, I would use known sites such as eBay to do any transactions...
People would do anything for money and always waiting for unsuspecting victims especially those who are new to the internet and those who are too gullible that can believe in anything under the sky.
I am glad that you have your presence of mind and was able to get out of that situation without losing anything valuable except for some of your time communicating with that idiot. If he is really from Malaysia than it would be a shame but lots of foreigners pretending to be Malaysian and do lots of bad stuffs and bring bad names to the country...
Cheers!
@Paula1966 (1102)
• United States
9 Dec 08
It's just great that you had the presence of mind NOT to fall for it!!! This sounds so much like those e-mails where supposedly you have a long-lost relative in Nigeria who has left you a lot of money, but you need to make a deposit. This guy just tried to make it more personal. I wonder how many others fell for his line? Hopefully none.
@minliyang (32)
• China
9 Dec 08
Thank you for the things you told us;an old chinese saying,called heart of harm should not be,anti-human heart can not be free;I hope you will not easily believe that other people,it is dangerous to remember it?Network world,after all,is illusory,it is necessary to be more alert;
@shonali (1286)
• India
8 Dec 08
whoa...thats kind of a confusing story there.... well recently i met a very old friend of mine and he told me that he met a girl online from new york (he is from india)....and the girl is looking for a man to get married to....and so my friend...after having long chats with her about each others lives....has ultimately fallen in love with her..... now after reading your story i really dont know whether i should tell him not to believe this girl or should i let him do what he feels like doing cos i dont want him to get hurt in the end when he finds out that all this was a scam but i also dont want to spoil an awesome relatioship which might not be a scam...how in the world would you know which one is true and which is a scam?
@Icyfairy (284)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
8 Dec 08
wow. its a good thing you're smart cause that would've been alot of money to be scammed out of. its true that alot of the people on the internet are scammers and other bad people but there are some genuine ones as well. so dont let this deter you from making friends online. just as long as it doesnt involve sending any money or anything to anyone.
