Hello,
Well more bad news. If you're familiar with eharmony, they take you through "guided communication" first, then allow you to exchange open emails. Well the very FIRST match that I made it to open communication with was a scammer. Her first message was: "I just joined yesterday, hows the site treating you? My YIM is
williebles@yahoo.com We can chat online tooooo"
Well, me being stupid chatted with her a couple times, and she seemed interested in me, of course. A little voice inside of me was shouting "This is BS!!" And it was hard, but I listened to it. LISTEN TO THE LITTLE VOICE, PEOPLE!! Her name was Bles from Biddeford, Maine. I knew it was a scam almost right off the bat, when I asked her questions about herself, they were always answered very vaguely. Or identical to information in her profile. She stated she was a photographer in her info. Then she said she finds out whether she goes to NIGERIA or China tomorrow for NAtional Geographic. Well guess which one it turned out to be. She (I refer to her as she, but who knows?) gave me a bogus address (looked it up on google maps) and a bogus name...Blessing Williams. But the name on her drivers license is Blessing Johnson...she told me. No such person. Looked it up on numerous people searches. Oh yeah, the picture she used was from the Hawaii Modeling site that you can link from this site. Under Petite, her real name is Shannon.
Ok, so she IM's me from Nigeria, which is the only truth she ever told, I'm sure. Saying that she doesn't have a computer in her hotel, but does have a computer hookup. But the poor thing! NG isn't going to pay her until the shoot is over!And her agent won't send her any money! But wait, she has an idea! "Can I borrow some $$?" For a laptop so we can chat? So I told her (it) no. Well, she kept saying "Think about it." Yeah, I'll think about it. Ummmm...no. There I thought about it.
Well, whoever was doing this obviously pounced too early. But I'm sure it gets some people. Just wanted to spread my experience here. Again:
Bles from Biddeford, ME...
williebles@yahoo.com
and above all.....
LISTEN TO THE VOICE INSIDE!!!! IT IS TELLING YOU THE TRUTH, AND YOU KNOW IT!!! NEVER GIVE MONEY TO SOMEONE YOU HAVEN'T MET!!! YOU CAN'T TAKE IT BACK!!! WATCH WHAT YOU TELL SOMEONE, TOO!!! RIGHT OFF THE BAT, SHE TRIED TO GET MY MOTHERS MAIDEN NAME!!!!