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  • Little Texan
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    • Jan 2004
    • 4579

    I think I'm being scammed

    I use an online singles service called singlesnet, and about 3 weeks ago I got this message from a beautiful girl from Littleton, Colorado. In the email notification, it said she was from Nacogdoches, TX, which I thought was a bit odd. Well, I emailed this chick with the email address she provided and started a dialogue with her, and about the second or third letter, she mentions she is from Russia, and says she had to put a US city in order to use the singles service because they don't accept people from outside the US. I happened to check the profile again later, and noticed the city had changed again to Las Cruces, NM. Anyway, we exchanged emails telling about one another for the past few weeks, and about the fourth email this chick starts talking like she's in love with me, calling me her dear, and her love, etc. With each email, she attached a picture of herself, and this girl was a knockout...looked like a model. I'm thinking all along, this is just too good to be true. About the ninth letter she starts talking about meeting me in Europe next month. I told her I couldn't afford a trip to Europe, so she said she would fly to the US, which was fine and dandy until she says in her latest letter this evening that she'll need me to cover half of the cost of the trip which comes to $900 for my half, then proceeds to give me Western Union information. This raised a big red flag for me, so I started doing some research on the net about Russian dating scams, and I was convinced afterwards that I am being scammed, but I'm not 100% sure. Even so, I don't have $900 to send even if she is real, and I'm not sending it to a complete stranger in another country that I have only known through emails for the past several weeks. What do ya'll think?
  • Little Texan
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    • Jan 2004
    • 4579

    #2
    Letter #1

    Hello Dennis!

    How are you? I hope you have some time to send me a message that we
    could to learn better each other. I shall tell a little about myself;
    I'm 26 years old and my birthday is in february the 2-nd, friends
    calls me Stacy. I never was married and I live in an apartment with my
    parents. Some years after finishing the university I worked as a
    lawyer. I like periodically go in for sports to make my body OK. I
    like to travel and to be in different places, but my work does not
    allow me to do it frequently. I have many friends, sometimes we
    together spend time, play billiards and tennis, we have Other
    entertainment. I send my picture for you, I want you knew how I looks.
    I like some tasty things like different pies, cakes, and others. But I
    don't allow myself to do it too frequent, I have to keep myself in a
    form. I love beautiful clothes I also prefer every thing in light
    colours. I like light tones, such as light-blue, pink, beige. And
    what's your favourite colour? Please ask everything interesting you
    about me. Also I have some questions for you: what do you do for fun?
    What's your character like? What do you like in women? Have you ever
    been married? I'll answer on your questions and write some more about
    myself in next e-mail! I'll wait letter from you and I'll answer you
    as soon as you write to me. It'll be a pleasure for me to see your
    some of your photos and to know some more about you. Waiting for
    reply...

    Your friend Stacy.

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    • LoungeMachine
      DIAMOND STATUS
      • Jul 2004
      • 32576

      #3
      Naahh.

      I'm sure you're fine.


      really.



      But give me your Social Security Number and date of birth just to be sure....
      Originally posted by Kristy
      Dude, what in the fuck is wrong with you? I'm full of hate and I do drugs.
      Originally posted by cadaverdog
      I posted under aliases and I jerk off with a sock. Anything else to add?

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      • Little Texan
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        • Jan 2004
        • 4579

        #4
        Letter #2

        HI Dennis !

        I'm pleased to receive your message. I am very glad you've written me.
        You haven't sent a picture of yours, please do it. I'd like to look at
        you. I'll wait for your picture. Dennis You e-mail means for me, that
        I'm interesting to you too. Do you really think Dennis, that my photo
        is nice? Dennis, I have a lot of questions and I would like to ask
        them in my messages, I hope you don't mind if I'll ask you - OK? You
        are a nice man for me That's why it is important for me to know your
        opinion on some things. I think, that then you read my message you
        could see, that I have serious intentions to get acquainted with the
        good person for long-term relations . I'll try to tell you a little
        about my character. I don't know how to start, I think, that I'm a
        very romantic person. I like to communicate with people, I like kind
        and good sense of humour. I appreciate such qualities in people, as
        fidelity and honesty very much. I do believe in love, and I think it
        is a very valuable sense which needs to be protected. I'm a jealous
        person but I adore, when someone who's close to me pays compliments
        and I'm always ready to listen them. It's a very important for me to
        keep everything clean and in their places, that's why I make cleaning
        very often. Also I like to cook some tasty meal and sweets, like cakes
        and pies. It is a pleasant for me to have some romantic relations
        between with the man, but probably all of the women dreams to get
        acquainted with a really good man to have beautiful romantic relations
        with him. But very often such things comes to an end too quickly. I
        don't want to spend myself on such acquaintances. I didn't meet for a
        while such a man in my life whom I would believe and give all my life
        and soul. But it's But me it would be desirable for me to find such a
        person. I think, that for woman the main thing in life is not to have
        great career or other kind of success, but to have a strong family to
        love and to beloved by the man who can take care of the family.
        Please, tell me, do you want to meet such a woman in your life? Excuse
        me Dennis, for discussion with you such frank thing with the woman
        whom you know couple of days. But it is interesting for me to know
        that do you think of it. I'll wait for yours reply.

        Yours faithfully
        Stacy.

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        • Little Texan
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          • Jan 2004
          • 4579

          #5
          Originally posted by LoungeMachine
          Naahh.

          I'm sure you're fine.


          really.



          But give me your Social Security Number and date of birth just to be sure....
          Yeah...right...

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          • Little Texan
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            • Jan 2004
            • 4579

            #6
            Letter #3

            Hi Dennis! How are you! Dennis, you ask, where I live - it's a pity
            but it is far from you. Otherwise I think it wasn't necessary for us
            to use e-mail to learn each other. For the first time have
            acquaintance through the Internet. It was very difficult for me to
            place my announcement in a service of acquaintances, because I am in
            Russia, the service of acquaintances doesn't accept people from this
            country. So I had to specify in a profile, that I am in USA. In this
            letter I shall inform you a little information about myself and if the
            dialogue with me will be interesting to you, I'll tell about myself in
            more detail in the following letters. I live in an average part of
            Russia, in city Penza. But if we'll decide to meet, I hope, that it
            will not be a problem for us because I've already made a little travel
            to other countries. I was in the several countries of Europe; for
            example Turkey, Italy, Germany. I made these travel as the tourist.
            Therefore Dennis, you shouldn't be worried about we are not close one
            to another. I'm such a woman, if I'll like some man, I'll reach even
            on the moon for a meeting. Besides now it's not a problem to make such
            a travel. I'm not worry about it. I have all I need to get acquainted
            with you, and it is possible to have relations with the person from
            other state. It is very interesting - other culture, thinking,
            traditions. For me and for you Dennis this is a new opportunity. You
            can learn, that is the Russian woman. And I can learn an American
            man.I hope that you haven't lose interest to me and will answer me
            soon. I'll wait for your e-mail, my American friend.

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            • Little Texan
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              • Jan 2004
              • 4579

              #7
              Letter #4

              Hi Dennis.

              I'm so glad to receive your message again, every day
              we are going to
              learn each other better and your messages are very
              interesting for me.
              Last time my soul was bored, there were no
              joyful occurs and no
              events. But now your message for me like a solar beam.
              Thanks, Dennis.
              Your e-mail and words you're writing in it helps me to
              understand that
              kind of a man you are. Helps me to understand you
              better. Dennis I'm
              sending another picture of me to you. I hope, that
              you'll like it.
              Please, tell me more in detail about the family. How
              many relatives do
              you have? What are the relations between you? How
              often are you going
              somewhere together? There are very close relations
              in my family. I
              already told you I live with my parents. We live in a
              cosy apartment,
              there are three usual rooms, kitchen, balcony and a
              bathroom. I have a
              room. It's a little pity but I have no brother or
              sister. My father's
              name is Anton, hi's 49 years old and he works
              as a builder. My
              mother's name is Marina, she's 47 years old. She
              have no job at the
              moment, she's making almost all work by our home,
              also she have a
              little garden, she's proud of it. We love each
              other, sometimes are
              going in city for an entertainment. For example,
              we're going on a
              beach in the summer and we already were there. And
              then it's a winter,
              we go for a skates and a ski. I like winter most of
              all. In my private
              life at the moment I have an emptiness. Last
              relations I had last
              year. There was a boyfriend, but I left him. We didn't
              love each other
              and had too various interests. In here I can't
              allocate any man for
              long-term relations. Day by day I understood that
              there are so little
              good men, and it's annoyingly in every time to
              sense disappointment
              when you think that has met a suitable man. That's
              why I think I went
              into a service of acquaintances. Probably here I
              can find a man who
              can love me, appreciate and understand. It is not
              very important for
              me his financial situation and his work. I
              have specified in a
              questionnaire that I search an older man because I
              think, that man
              which lived some more has enough experience and
              understood that woman
              need, he has learned to appreciate women and to
              understand their
              needs. I'll be ready to give all of me without the
              rest to such a man
              and I think, that the main advantage of the woman
              is fidelity and a
              skill to make family happy, without quarrels and
              conflicts. On it I'll
              finish this letter. Dennis, please write to me some
              of your thoughts
              about that I has told to you. I'm waiting for your
              messages.


              Yours Stacy.

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              • Little Texan
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                • Jan 2004
                • 4579

                #8
                Letter #5

                Hi Dennis. It is very nice of you that you studied
                some of my ideas in
                the last message. Dennis, usually I don't tell
                about deep ideas and
                opinions, but I wrote it to you because I felt a
                desire to open it to
                you. I'm more independent woman, but sometimes
                I'm necessary that
                there was one man, who can be open and kind. I
                am glad, that you
                understanding me, you see it happens not frequently.
                Thank you Dennis
                , that you have written some details about your life
                and family to me,
                I closely studied it. It has helped me to understand
                you and your life
                better and you became closer man . Dennis It is time
                for me to do some
                work and after it I'll go and meet the friends. By
                the way I told by
                them and my parents, that got acquainted with you.
                Have a good day. I
                wait for your letters.


                Yours Stacy.

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                • Little Texan
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                  • Jan 2004
                  • 4579

                  #9
                  Letter #6

                  Hi my dear! I'm reading your last e-mails now, and it's very
                  interesting for me to know your opinion about that I spoke to you in
                  my last message. Our exchange of opinions is interesting to me and I
                  think, now I can think that I know you better. Dennis, I send some new
                  pictures to you. As for me, Dennis, I too want to see more than your
                  pictures. Dear, I would like to find out, how do you like to spend
                  your free time. I'm a cheerful person sometimes I'm thinking out
                  various entertainments for my friends and for myself. I like to help
                  them to make life more interesting. It can be different things:
                  dances, cinema, parties or entertainments on the nature. But speaking
                  frankly in the last time these entertainments give me not big
                  pleasure. In the last time I'm often dreaming of romantic evening with
                  the beloved man, it can be a supper or a simple walk . I think, that
                  in it there is a lot of charm. Are you a romantic man Dennis? Do you
                  think, sometimes, of such things? Do you like cosy evenings with the
                  family? I very much love holidays when all family gathers, in one
                  table. It is very cosy and comfortable for me. And how do you like to
                  carry out holidays dear? What makes a cosines and rest for you? Tell
                  to me please about it Dennis. Dennis, excuse me for a question: do you
                  have any woman now? I think, that you are very good as the man and
                  women like you. Because I like you even through such a distance. What
                  is your private life now, please tell me about it. Probably you have
                  to me some frank questions. I'll answer all of them. Write to me more
                  in detail about the feelings and desires, I like very much to read
                  your letters in which you're telling about yourself, I am ready to
                  read about it the whole day. I'll wait for your messages.

                  My embraces. Yours Stacy.

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                  • Little Texan
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                    • Jan 2004
                    • 4579

                    #10
                    Letter #7

                    Hi my dear Dennis! I'm very glad to speak with you again! By the way,
                    yesterday I had quite good evening with my friends. We reached in a
                    dance club and spend there some hours. First, we had a good supper and
                    a little glass of champagne, then we played bowling and danced. All of
                    that was very good, but when I saw , how some of my friends danced and
                    kissed some men - I had a small envy to them. I thought of you and had
                    a dream what you are near me Dennis. That you embrace me too, and
                    whisper to my ear gentle words. And how's about you Dennis, if you see
                    around you some love-pair people, - do you remembers me? Do you going
                    with your friend to some bar or club? If you do, how often? And if you
                    are in these places does women try to get acquainted with you and how
                    often they do it? As for me I'm even tired of men who approach to me
                    and try to begin acquaintance, but I'm at the same time let them to
                    understand, I'm not a woman who's caught on such tricks . Dennis, last
                    time I often think about your messages and I understand that it is
                    serious for me. I mean that I don't think our dialogue is an
                    entertainment, and I write to you very personal words and things, as
                    to the close man. And I want to tell you Dennis, that I am glad, that
                    I have such a man as you! I told you as I remember that friends calls
                    me Stacy, I have to tell you that my passport-name is larger and more
                    complicated - it's Anastasiya. That's why everyone calls me Stacy. I'd
                    like to be honest in all with you, so, if you don't mind I'll sign as
                    Anastasiya in my future messages. I'm waiting for your messages and
                    I'm thinking of you. Gentle kisses for you!


                    Yours Stacy.

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                    • Little Texan
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                      • Jan 2004
                      • 4579

                      #11
                      Letter #8

                      Hi my love! I hope, you're OK! Your message is wonderful, it was a
                      pleasant for me to read your message, thanks for your words. I'll send
                      you other my picture I hope, this picture will give some good emotions
                      to you again. Today my work was finished earlier and I'm writing to
                      you this letter, I'll prepare a dinner for my parents. My mum is a
                      little sick today and all cooking today is on me By the way, dear,
                      what food do you like? That do you prefer; sweets, meat, a fish?
                      Please write to me about it, Dennis. I'm able to cook very good my mum
                      cared of it many years ago. I think I'll prove you it at a right time
                      I can easy make some salads, soups, any fish meal and many others.
                      Most of all I like fish, and also I like very much different fruit;
                      kiwi, bananas, pineapples and a melon. Today I'll cook a chinese
                      chicken and vegetable salad. Do you like, some tasty meal? By the way,
                      Dennis we have proverb: "the way to a man's heart passes through his
                      stomach! " I think this proverb is truthful, I've convinced of it many
                      times looking at my father. So, Dennis, I'll reach to your heart with
                      the help of my cooking abilities. It is a joke!!! Now I'll go to the
                      kitchen . I hope, that my daddy will like that I cook. I'm waiting for
                      your reply!

                      Yours Anastasiya.

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                      • Little Texan
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                        • Jan 2004
                        • 4579

                        #12
                        Letter #9

                        Hi my dear Dennis! I am very glad to speak with you again! Thanks for
                        your e-mail. I am glad Dennis, that there is some kind of development
                        in our relations and we became more close people. I tell about you to
                        my parents and my friends. They hope, they could get acquainted with
                        you sometime. Dennis, they insist, that I would acquaint you with
                        them, my parents are especially persevering. I've told them , it is
                        serious and I like you Dennis, also I told you are a good person. You
                        know Dennis, parents always wish children only good and they are
                        pleased, if their children is happy in all. My father like fishing and
                        now he often says, that now he knows a man, which can be invited for
                        fishing. I laughed for a long time and told him, that at all I'm not
                        sure if you like it. You know, he answered that later he will be going
                        with you at a good fishing also he will learn you to cook an uha (soup
                        with fish). And did you Dennis, told to close people about me? What
                        they told about it? Please, tell me about it. Do you have any plans
                        concerning our relations? I think, it would be very good, if we could
                        spend some days together. It will make our feelings much stronger and
                        will help us to learn better each other. Probably the next month we
                        can meet. For example in Europe or other place. Understand me
                        correctly Dennis, I cannot yet to invite you to myself. I live with my
                        parents and at the moment I do not know you enough for this. Between
                        us there were only our messages and I think, that to us it is better,
                        to meet in the friend place. I very much would want to be with you
                        alone, to see your eyes and touch you! Dear so we can make a full
                        opinion on us to learn about many things. Let's discuss it Dennis. I
                        miss your kiss...


                        Yours Anastasiya

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                        • VAN HLN CA
                          Foot Soldier
                          • Apr 2005
                          • 607

                          #13
                          sounds like Romeo's Delight to me.

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                          • Little Texan
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                            • Jan 2004
                            • 4579

                            #14
                            Letter #10

                            Hi my darling Dennis! How are you doing? I'm all
                            right. I am glad,
                            that my messages are pleasant for you. I'm a
                            little excited, and
                            yesterday I hardly fell asleep. I was excited by
                            an idea about our
                            meeting. It's a big event for me and I had so much
                            emotions. Such as
                            excitement, big impatience and expectation of that
                            day. You gave in my
                            life the whole sea of emotions. Dennis, it is
                            difficult for me to make
                            a good speech, but I can tell, that it is very
                            nice and it gave me
                            some kind of a push and the purpose for life. I
                            think, my love, that
                            it is necessary for us to talk about our
                            meeting to make no
                            difficulties and no inconveniences in our deals. I
                            can arrange on my
                            work, to have some days free. Dennis, and will your
                            work allow you to
                            make it? Probably you have the intense schedule of
                            your work and you
                            shouldn't be absent. If it's so, then we can meet
                            more close from you
                            or even I could arrive to you on some days. For me
                            there is no problem
                            to make a longer travel. If this way is more
                            convenient for you and my
                            arrival will not create problems for you Dennis,
                            let's choose this
                            plan. For me it's even much better, because I can see
                            how do you live,
                            meet your friends, you can show me your city and
                            other places you
                            like. And if it is necessary for you, you can visit
                            your work. As for
                            me, my work is not so important and my colleagues can
                            take everything
                            without me for a while, that's why I don't worry
                            about my deals here.
                            Please, dear Dennis, tell me your opinion! If it is a
                            good way for you
                            too I'll begin to prepare for travel. My kisses and
                            embraces.

                            Yours
                            Anastasiya.

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                            • Little Texan
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                              • Jan 2004
                              • 4579

                              #15
                              Letter #11

                              Hi my love! It is pleasant for me to read your words. I am glad to
                              learn, that you are ready to accept me in your house. Thanks, that you
                              trust me, my dear. Dennis, I want to tell to you that in my last
                              message I wanted to check, how seriously are you treat to me . Forgive
                              for this my love, but you should understand me. For me was it is very
                              important to know, whether you will agree to accept me in your house
                              or you not. If you answered, that we should met somewhere in hotel or
                              in the other place, - than I would think, what you do not want to be
                              with me in host because you have wife or you are not serious enough to
                              me, and you want to meet me for an entertainment. This check - was
                              small precaution. I heard, that many people get acquainted to have
                              only sex with the new person, though in the structure inform, that
                              have serious intentions. Now I am sure in you Dennis, and I am glad,
                              that you appeared really that the person whom I want to meet! My love,
                              with a big pleasure, I shall spend at you some days. These days I
                              shall reach in agency of travel to receive the information for that,
                              to reach to you the next month. I shall inform you for detail about it
                              in the following e-mail. I wait your messages. I adore you my dear
                              Dennis! Hundreds of kisses!!!

                              Yours Anastasiya.

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