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Has anyone else hear of the "Lagos Nigeria Romance Scam"? Well I have...heres how it goes...these people (jerks actually!) cruise the internet dating sites, like eHarmony, Yahoo, Live, Match.com...and pay for the memberships with stolen credit card info. They find a target and initiate a contact with someone on one of the sites and once they think they have a victim, they romove their profile from the sites. They use stolen pictures from other websites (think facebook/myspace). They will "groom" a prospective love interest with letters, poems and promises of undying love...and then spring it on you. They traveled out of the country to Lagos, Nigeria and had a credit card frozen or stolen, they were arrested, or someone was hurt and ask you for money. I read while doing the research for this that on average 75% of the dating sites have bogus profiles...I would actually like to know the real number, it kinda sounds high. The reason I know this is because I had a free profile on Yahoo on a whim before coming over to eHarmony and was contacted by one of these con artists. After doing my own research on the phone numbers he gave me, physical addresses and doing a check on the IP address of all his texts and emails...I soon found out the truth, he even asked me for money...yeah right, like I'm going to send some stranger I have never met 2000 for a plane ticket.
Everyone please be on your guard...if in doubt about the origination of an email..you can go online and just do a check by "IP" and it will give you the country of origin for it.
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