Facebook Scammers

[Rabbit700]

@Pinky:


@totalmisfit: Please PLEASE pay attention. What Pinky just laid out is THE WAY IT REALLY IS. We wouldn't kid you. If you'd like to learn how to bait the cockroaches there are a number of us who would be more than happy to teach you, but do not do this on your own ... you will end up doing more harm than good.

Which in turn will cause more victims to be scammed. Can you live with that?

Hello... my first post here.

So... I guess I may be an unsuspecting fool at heart. I met a seemingly wonderful girl from the Philippines on good old Facebook. She is separated from her partner, and has a 4 year old girl. I fell head over heels for this girl and her daughter. I thought I was doing good and sent her some cash - the first time. Then shortly afterwards a requwst for help with food and school dues was sent to her. Now she says she needs money for the electric bill and food again. I started to get suspicious and told her I just dont have anymore to give, and she then started in on what I call a guilt trip by saying things such as "what am I going to do? My daughter needs her milk and foods." and similar statements. Another thing she does is going overboard with the "I love you's", "Can't be without you", "Cant wait to be married" and just trying to fill me up with gooey words. It's very difficult for me to determine if she is true or fake. However, I think it is fake. I do not intend to send anymore money to her.

Your statement of offering to help set her up to determine if she is truly a scammer is intriguing and would like it if you can give me advice on how to set her up to find out if true or not. Could you help in that regard please?

I think I probably goy myself scammed and have lost the money of course, but I think I have become much mor savvy about these people, though the hard way.

Thank you very much.

[Marisa]

We don't really deal with Philippines and "begging" scams here, which is what it is.

Please visit this site: http://www.dragonladies.org

Register on their forums, tell your story and you will get help there.

[connie10]

I don't understand why Facebook can't set something up to watch these scumballs. Since my scammer sent me pictures of Rick, Focus Hawaii, I have been doing my own research using Google Image and Tineye and I have found that this poor guy has about 9 active Facebook profiles going on right now. Facebook has to have some kind of idea about these modeling agency photos being stolen, why can't they do something to screen the images that people are using. I don't know but like set up some kind of filter for these photos so that they can be flagged or something. Since my journey through this mind and heart altering adventure I have reported to Facebook about 3 times about fake profiles that I have found. I know that I have read were some of these people don't care that their pictures were stolen but it seems to me that all this publicity could not be good for their personal and professional lives. Sorry but I feel sad that these photos are being abused in such a bad way but on the other hand if I could ever find my scammer I would hang him from the highest tree using his "man-hood" parts as the main anchor point. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong area, was not sure where to post it.

[Marisa]

Do you have an idea how many FB employees it would take to daily monitor profiles and pictures uploaded to FB? THOUSANDS. And they will not work for free. They will have to be paid salary. FB will go out of business.

[connie10]

Sorry but all this abuse by these low life scum balls makes me mad!!!!

[Marisa]

I understand. We are all mad.

But unfortunately this problem cannot be solved by FB, Yahoo, etc... This problem can only be solved by the government of Nigeria.

Here is an example, an interesting fact: we all know that there is a lot of scam originating from Russia and Ukraine. But there are no scams originating from a neighbor country - Belarus, which is also part of the former Soviet Union. Why? Very simple: because their president forbid residents to receive money via Western Union, Money Gram, etc... They cannot get any money WU - and there is no scam!! So simple...

[Buba77]

Well, I was approached on Facebook too - still, I'm surprised up to this very day. I even posted my my story to my wall and boards I use in order to warn people. I'd never think I could be the victim - well, I'm in my thirties, don't use any dating websites (which is a preferred hunting ground, I assumed), my profile on FB is private, only my friends can see my pics and I don't come from a wealthy country. And still some stranger sent me a PM, which didn't really strike me as unusual - I did make a lot of friends in this way! We exchanged emails, he wanted to chat online, which I was not so willing - I don't use any IM, so I'd have to download some. At the beginning I was not suspicious, but then my doubts increased at an alarming rate: spelling and punctuation mistakes, same things repeated twice, mixing up/changing vital details and talking about love to a stranger you met online so fast? Because I'm so careful with strangers online, the scammers sent me photos, passport scans, house ownership documents, contract details... I became even more suspicious, and started googling, came across RS, which was real eye opener. I learned how to identify email headers, look for IP location, found out what proxy is. It was all very helpful, and I'm very grateful to the admins and mods because upon realising it's a scam, I stopped any contact with the guy and fortunately didn't lose any money.
Still, I'm angry and feel betrayed in a way as at the beginning I thought this just an ordinary man, and I told him some personal details - who I am, what I do for a living, where I live, details about my family and previous relationship. I didn't lose any money, but I do feel violated... it makes me sick that some ruthless predator knows so much about me, and will perhaps use the information to scam other people.

Here's the thread with my experience:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47454

[cmdesk]

The scammer I had was from my area. He even put that he was at the neighborhood association on his FB. I found out from a friend that anybody anywhere can put wherever they want to be on FB. I have learned a very hard lesson from this scammer and I hope that no one else has to go through what I did. I did try to cut all contact after a month, but my mistake was I called him a scammer and that he didnt make since at times. I am done with all dating sites, I trust no dating site anymore.

[Stealth]

Hi Cmdesk,

I just wanted to assure you that regardless of this bad time and what you are going through, as a result of a mugu, time will heal these wounds. Just keep your chin up and be proud of who you are, and that you are not a bottom feeder like the mugu you dealt with. You are some one that cares about children, and the mugu exploited this noble quality.

I wouldn't rule out all dating sites. Some are good. In time, and give yourself plenty, you might try dating sites again. However, if you stick with us, you'll come out far wiser about mugus and able to sniff out these trolls a mile away, long before they have a chance. It's just a matter of setting some limits for what you will tolerate from online people. For instance, you can decide to only bother with local dates,and find them on sites and decide not to bother with ANYONE that can't meet you for coffee within the week or two, no matter how nice they seem. You can also come up with the motto that REAL MEN don't beg and ask women for money period, as well as knowing that all money requests are always 100% scams. And just remember, real men don't act like Fabio stepping out of a romance novel to date women. No real people fall head over heels within the first week either. REAL men, men worth dating don't try to force webcam issues, and show respect at all times.

[TiredofScams47]

so it is best to just not respond? ....k can do that ....tomorrow I am getting my number changed....I have been receiving some strange calls so.......I think it is best....thank you so much for all of the information...and yeah I want to bait this jerks and get them listed on here so that they are less likely to victimized someone else....is it my imagination or does the internet seem to be crawling with them??? Match.com is a paid site and this "mike jowsey" was a "match" from my home town....I even asked questions about where he lived...he gave me an actual street address here in hartley....this was the rare one and only time that we communicated over messenger and the thing is he did not hesitate to rattle off this address that he was suppose to be living at.....interesting enough the place he gave had been recently sold ...no I didn't send him any last emails or text messages....I thank you thank you thank you for the help!

[Stealth]

You are very welcome for anything we can help with.

And no, it isn't just your imagination, the internet is infested with them for sure.

Interested in baiting? Stick with us, keep posting and learning and you will find the knowledge you seek.

[lucindamc456]

You are so right, there are a lot of scammers on Facebook which is why my profile, friends list, photographs and comments are now only viewable by my friends. I even made my 18 year old daughter's profile private but she is pretty careful about this kind of thing. Facebook won't do a thing to remove these scammers even though they ask you to report fake profiles. But even if you give them all the details about why this is a fake profile and the person is s scammer, they won't remove the profile. Facebook cares about its advertisers, not the users. And there are pages on Facebook people have started that post profiles of scammers so that can help too. But of course I am not going to post anything about a scammer in public there because I am too well known. I don't even allow strangers to send me friend requests now. And I don't confront them either. I just unfriend them and block them from my profile.