Hi

I have been contacted by 2 men from this site who both turned out to be scammers trying to get money from me.

One said his name was ********* ********* and was very sweet and actually dragged it out for almost 2 months before finally getting around to asking for money. He built up my trust sending me pictures of himself and his 14 yr old son. I once challenged him about who he really was and he was so upset and so indignant that I would doubt him that I believed that he was who he said he was.
I have just had confirmation tonight that he does not work for the company he told me he worked for. It turns out I am not as stupid as he thought I was.

The other guy called himself ********** ***** and again used photos of "himself and his son" to build up trust. His story was even more far fetched then ******** and not quite as well thought out.

If I knew how to I would post their pictures up so that everyone could see what they look like and no one else will get conned.

Once they thought they had me on the hook they deactivated their mingle2 accounts and declared undying love for me.

On another site I met a guy claiming to be an American soldier in Iraq. The mistake he made was in not removing his profile from the dating site and having different profile information from what he had told me about himself. Even the age was wrong.

He was operating out of Oasis Active and eHarmony. I have also discovered his profile on Facebook. He claimed his name was ****** ***** and that is the name he uses on all these sites so he is really not smart. I found all that out just by googling his name.

Anyone wanting to see photo's of these guys can contact me through Mingle2 and I will send them to you. Or better still tell me how to post the photo's on here.

It happens to the best of us. I had them email me all the time. I will not email someone who I have not talked to on the forms. Or have seen in the forms.

The same guys?


It is hard enough trying to find someone special without scumbags like that out there.

You have to be careful on the internet, I don't trust anyone.

not the same guys. Usually they are over seas somewhere. I just don't talk to them unless I have seen them post in the forms. It does make it harder but in the end it will be worth it.

Thanks I will remember that next time.

They both claimed to be from Houston, Texas. ********* was supposedly living and running a business in London.

******** was working for Devon Energy in Houston and then was suddenly "transfered" to Madrid for work.

Just sort of destroys your faith in human nature really.

Please report any one you believe is a possible scammer. The site can't do anything without knowing.

yeah it does. I have pretty much lost all faith in humans. I know there are SOME good ones left. Just takes work to find them. Good luck!

Thanks. I am not quite ready to give up completely on love yet. I know there has to be someone genuine out there for me.

to let you know if you notice that when they say there from texas or another state but at the moment there in london, nigera, or where ever
most of the guys that state that are normaly scammers

How and who do I report them?

They are not possible scammers, they are definite scammers.

Since I told ********* that I could not and would not send him money to bail him out of his "problem" in Nigeria (of all places) he stopped contacting me.

As for *******, Devon Energy just confirmed tonight in an email to me that he is not and never has been employed by them.

under each email, there is are 3 buttons....delete, block user and Report Abuse/Spam. there is, also, a button to the right of each members main picture that says

INAPPROPRIATE PHOTO? ABUSIVE OR OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR? REPORT THIS USER

I don't like scammers any more than any one else. Hope this helps

Nigeria immediately sets off alarm bells as that country is huge for internet scammers.

They have huge rooms full of computers and men and women just scamming people on dating sites. They have photo's of all these different men from around the world and set up profiles on every dating site.

Where I live in Perth, Australia over $4million has been stolen from peoples accounts by scammers online using skimmers on ATM and EFTPOS machines in McDonald's stores.

Thanks but they have both de-activated their profiles so I can't report them that way.

You have to trust some people or you never get to meet anyone. You just have to learn how to sift out the **** from the gold.

I think I am starting to get pretty good at it.

just keep an eye out for them again or new ones. Keep your chin up

Thanks for that.

I have been checking to see if I could find the pictures they used but no luck so far.

That's y I don't go on yahoo anymore.most scammers want u to go on there right away. that is one sure sign.

When I first got on here, I had a couple like what you describe, but learned really fast. There's another social site I am on where the scamming has become so prevalent I think there are more of them than real people.