Victim lost $20,000 to an online love scammer.
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Has ANYONE ever reached out to you and it turned out to be legit ???
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No. Go out real life and meet a man. See them right away.
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Back in a days parents were telling kids to don’t speak with strangers. Now days kids have to keep telling them parents to don’t send money to strangers 🙈
So true!
Well said
That is so true!
so true well said
Exactly!! My mom said all her life her mom was suspicious of everybody. She said she just wanted to trust people more. I told her this is not the time to start trusting people. I can't even convince her that she doesn't know this man. In her opinion, she feels like she does.
Those oil rig men have the darndest bad luck getting out of their’contracts’
Yeah and bad phone reception
Indeed! And these clowns always run into problems where their bank accounts are frozen and they need money to pay their workers and they need $ for broken equipment or their kids need apple or google pay cards. It never ends.
Yes, and the minute they get to an Airport, they get detained
Its a wonder if any oil gets produced they're all busy chatting up grannies
@@richardmilliken8705 And apparently they are being starved out on those oil rigs. They all seem to need money for food.
My grandmother (who is a very striking woman) gets these messages all the time. She asks for help with her house payment right off the bat. She tells them she has hit a hardship and could really use their help. She beats them to the punch. It's become kind of a game to her. It weeds these scammers out! 😅😅
Absolutely love it!
That’s what I would do! I wonder why more people don’t.
😆😂
Good on grandma go girl grannys can rock it ❤❤❤
Does she tell them she loves them and call them “My King”? 🤣🤣🤣
1. Makes contact through Facebook
2. Widower
3. One child
4. Child doesn't live with him
5. Works on a rig
6. Falls in love with her immediatly
So many red flags.
Right? These guys all use the same script, lemme add one:
7. Calls her his Queen
Expired passport.
Hires dodgy lawyer.
Son doing exams on his phone.
Child's in boarding school 😅
12. Is Johnny Depp.
Works on an oil rig, or was "deployed" - these ugly old ladies love the macho military types - to Afghanistan.
"His [Nigerian] accent melted me."
I am constantly amazed by how obtuse people are.
Yeah sexy Nigerian accent?! Are you kidding me!? Gross
@@carolgeorgeson9632 🤣🤣🥹🥹
I like acute people
@@carolgeorgeson9632 A nigerian accent from Singapore?
@@carolgeorgeson9632 My Nigerian ex-husband sounded like an Englishman. I get why she would fall for it
I could do with $20000 and I’m a real person. ILL SEND YOU LOVE POEMS EVERY DAY.
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Haha same
😂😂❤️
Stay away from her! She’s mine!!!!!!!!
Yes, me too.
I have no idea, why i watch these videos over and over again.
Same stories, different pictures.
I admire the patience of David and his collegues.
because u watch them others will just find u , don't watch any of them and when they do appear use the not interested button every time and they will soon stop appearing
yeah you admire this channels patience do ya ...they are cashing in on these stupid women and men so nothing to admire dear ... get real
I feel sick. Me too. I'm binge watching and they're all exactly the same. And the show is in the exact same format, over and over.
Your comment is speaking to me! I've been binge watching for 2 days now, it's not the stories, I'm just aspiring to be as patient as they are. It's literally the purest form of patience I've ever seen. 😂
Same, the stories all have common themes, "babe" is commonly used, "I love you " gets thrown out there early, a drastic difference in physical appearance and then the whammy "I'm successful but I need your money. "
So the Walmart woman tried to save her from herself. But she ignored the woman. Brilliance
"I need money" = NO. "I need documents" = NO. "I need a plane ticket" = NO. NO. NO. Problem solved. It really is that simple.
👍. Any person asking for any money at all is a scammer! Period!
Actually the-> I Need = No don't wait to hear the rest of the sentence & that should be only 1 I need because all contact should be stopped after that ...there should not be a 2 or 3rd time...only -> I & click & block😁& I'm sorry that people are so gullible to send a stranger all this money...the same people probably wouldn't loan this amount of money to a family member or friend but will loan it to a complete stranger 🤷🏾♀️u feel bad for them but wow....who does this....who open bank accounts for strangers ...who would give stranger their personal banking info🤷🏾♀️
Im not perfect but, if i met a new guy and he asked me for money i would run and never look back., that and Babe, would be a total and utter turn off for me.🤥
@@Fourleafclover9 ...lol ..well over here it's beautiful & queen....I'm 48 & my 26 year old son told me about it...all the men calling females beautiful & queen n the texts...when I first saw it I thought it was special & my son said ma🙄all the guys are using that n the text to all the girls🤷🏾♀️.... didn't u know he said🙄lol...and i oops...
@@Fourleafclover9 ...and I don't even mess with online dating...if it's meant to happen it will... otherwise after work it's me my Carlo Rossi & Amazon Prime oh & my cat🙄but he doesn't like wine & he prefers Netflix...lol
I will never understand why people feel like they’re responsible for someone they don’t even know!
It happens all the time some people are to stupid 🤷😉
@@axa897 and the sad part is some NEVER learn. I've seen people after being victims of a scam go right back on those same dating sites and end up getting scammed again and again. You just can't fix stupid!
Love is blind and make people dumb
Because they're often vulnerable and those at the other end are persistent and manipulative
Seriously, you have no idea how it can happen until it happens to you. I thought the same thing! It is much more complicated, evil, and emotionally manipulative than you can imagine!
I got scammed back in 2017 and lost a lot of money. I never in a million years thought that would happen to me. It is NOT about being "smart" or 'dumb."
I wouldn't give 20k to family or friends, never mind a stranger off the internet I've never met.
Haha same.
Clearly she had the 20K to send. I certainly don't have it since I am too busy working hard so that I never have to ask anyone for a single thing. These women are way to gullible in the 21st century.
Many years ago, I gave $20k to a bunch of strangers. Like these people, it was also because an addiction - this one though was called online poker.
Why did I do it? Like them, I was in a terrible spot in my life and not thinking clearly/rationally. I’d recently undergone a disastrous failed back surgery that permanently destroyed my life, carried out by a greedy, psychopathic, corrupt surgeon. I was an absolute mess physically and psychologically. I was trying everything under the sun to distract me from my reality at that time, unable to accept what had happened to me, or cope in the slightest.
Online poker was simply one of many things I tried until I got burned out by it, but at least that poker phase was the only one that drained money from me (luckily I at least stopped whilst I still had half of my savings remaining, so it could have been even worse... I ended up needing all that money to pay for medical costs).
I didn’t have much to live for, so I can get how lonely and desperate many of these people are in these videos (especially with their lives changing drastically too, usually including a ton of grief from a spouse dying or whatnot). I went from working in a career I loved, having a very fulfilling social life and future life goals I was excited about, to becoming disabled and mostly bedridden with 24/7 chronic pain, stuck in a hell I couldn’t escape and very isolated.
It’s still very rough and lonely (it’s been 18 years since the surgery now, and I was only 28 when it happened), but I’ve become mostly accustomed to it. I will be sure to stay on my guard to never get sucked into anything like this. The good thing about being poor now though is that scammers wouldn’t be able to squeeze a dime out of me lol. They very well could try to tempt me to becoming a mule for laundering money though - so I’m glad to have learned the different ways in which they use vulnerable people.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 so sorry this happened to you and I hope you sued the hell out of that surgeon. Things happens about 20 years ago I got caught up in psychic hot lines. Part of it was loneliness and part of it thought I could see the future with their help. And really they were just stringing me along on the phone to stay on and get more money out of me per minute. One month I got a phone bill for over $1,000 it shocked the heck out of me. And woke me up that this was ridiculous. It took me a few months to pay it off. But it was a hard lesson learned. You just love yourself and you can work with a charity or do something within you ability to do good in the world if you can. Being "poor" is not the worst thing in the world. I work with some of the richest men and they are all miserable lol. I am not rich or chase money. I am just happy with what I have.
And even worse they could of given all that money to Family or friends but instead give it to a 2 Dimensional Ghost who has no address 😫
“So I went to another Walmart and they did it” 😂
Unbelievable
Sad and pathetic
When a Wal Mart cashier has more common sense than you, that's a bad sign.
@@BackwoodsFilms😂😂😂💯
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Part of the employee training at all Walmarts now is to watch out for these Gift Card Scams.
That's good news, about time they did something.
That's really amazing
Very true they told me don’t send to no one you don’t know
That means nothing. They don't want to listen or learn they r being scammed. They will do what she did. She went to other place to send the money. I saw a case of a woman who tried to send money from her bank account, the bank said to her she was being scammed she took the money and went to Western Union.
@@wupfwupfinger2182 You're right....these people refuse to acknowledge the truth. But what can you do - they go and get bitcoins, they will find some other way. They are willing victims, of all ages, all genders. They're not quite normal so normal preventative measures will not do much, but might prevent one out of ten!
What always gets to me is the fact that they don't question why they have no one else to help them.
!!! THIS!
Or employed but broke. Sounds like they should file a claim not be dating
People have asked that and they get all kinds of excuses. Its called emotional blackmail . The scammers are real good at manipulation.
@@susiesnarey8442 naw it’s called attention seeking behavior and denying all and every red flag .. these people get hit with undeniable proof but they’re still just victims… that’s the exact mentality that keeps this shit going
YES! We just met 3 weeks ago, you have to pay some people, ask your friends, cousins, siblings, take a bank loan? Oh you can’t access your bank? Well me neither. Sorry my King!
I’m thinking “There goes the life insurance money!” Her husband is gone less than a year, she has a huge family for support but she’s sending money to a guy with an imaginary kid out on an oil rig calling her “Queen”. There were SO any red flags.
Actions speak louder than words + warning signs of "my Queen" - white people do not use that expression it will be a black African or a Rastaman as we say King & Queen for our partners - Jah bless
“Queen” has become a red flag out of Africa.
Well said 👏 thanks
Be kind to Widows! Your heart & head hurt!😣😣😣
@@sookie4195I've heard that it's now embroidered onto the flag of Africa!
Awesome job of the store clerk who refused to help her because she sensed a scam. This woman sounds reasonably intelligent, what the heck?!
Might be overestimating her intelligence a bit lol
yes and not looking for love, so recently widowed. etc.... some kind of brainwashing goes on and overrides logic and the red flags waving. I dont care who the guy is, how beautiful he says I am he gets no money. No one who supposedly has a responsible job has no one to call on in emergency.
Intelligence and common sense flies out of the window
Look a lot of these people found themselves in this situation due to a couple of unfortunate circumstances:
1. Almost without fail the victim has lost someone close to them very recently and is in a vulnerable situation.
2. They’re not coping very well with their grief.
3. They feel lonely. Deep down a couple of them know that this isn’t real, but the addiction is real.
4. Not being very tech savvy. Some of these people aren’t the sharpest, but I do believe that a lot of the victims aren’t dumb. But it’s easy being tricked when you’re vulnerable.
5. Many are religious. These scammers usually play out the god-card. And a lot of believers tend to be more easily persuaded if you push the right buttons. Which for them are the ones about faith, helping others, not being greedy.
6. And then it’s usually sunk cost fallacy. I’ve already sent you 100k, so what’s the difference if I send you 5k more? Also people feel dumb knowing that they have been fooled, and that’s an uncomfortable feeling that a lot of try to avoid at all costs.
I never got this deep, but after my bf committed suicide I became super vulnerable. I didn’t lose any money, but I was used by people in my surroundings who identified me as an easy target. My classmates made me do so much work for them as well as arrange prom/graduation etc - under the guise that they really appreciated me and that I was a good friend. Did any of them care for me? No. I was constantly left out, being used and my efforts (I did my darnedest so that people would like me) were NEVER appropriated.
People have asked me how I could fall for something so obvious, but at that time my brain worked a little differently due to the huge traumatic life change.
If you see the words "oil rig", RUN
It's so insulting to the memory of the deceased husbands in these cases, who have worked so hard to build up money for their widows - and then the widows can't wait to send it to the first man who flatters them! Shameful.
Comments like these always get me. Wives work too! Wives have financial assets of their own that they bring into the marriage, or often have separate assets from their husbands. Also, money earned during a marriage is the money of both spouses. Even if she never worked outside the home, raising five kids for several decades is worth tens of thousands of dollars (depending on where you live, even hundreds of thousands of dollars) in childcare they did not have to pay for because of her. I get what where you’re coming from, but you never see these kinds of comments when it’s a widower on the show.
That's true, you know ...
Who said it was the husband's money!?
Especially when he’s only been dead for 11 months. Poor blokes not even cold.😢
@@Felicity2121 yer, it's just off
Someone who's quickly insisting they are in love with you when you don't even know them is one of three things: a scammer, a delusional stalker, or a domestic abuser trying to reel you in. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BE INVOLVED WITH ANY OF THEM?
20yrs ago I was on the dating sites. I'd never heard of scammers at that time, but when one of them would say they loved me shortly after a few chats, I told them there was no way if they didn't even know me, a I'd block them. I was looking for husband material, not someone talking crazy to me. Of course now I believe they were most likely scammers.
My husband was an actual oil rig worker for ten years. Oil rig workers live a very luxurious life while on the rig. Yes, they work very hard, but they also have everything they need for relaxation, including internet access (including access via online to banking services), all the food they can eat, game rooms, exercise rooms, etc. Anybody who is underperforming or causing problems on the rig, regardless of status, is on the next helicopter out at company expense. By Ellie Bille not me
Do they have restaurants in the rig? I don’t mean just a place that serves them food but actually a nice place where you can go to pay at that time to be served food. I know there were scammers on this channel who said they needed $$$ for the rig restaurant. 🤣
@@Sashazur😂😂omg , “I need steam cards for the oil rig game room!”
@@Sashazur - I'll bet you could look it up online and find the answer.
Yeah, but the static from the phone will blow up the oil rig, so we can't talk or video chat. Ya gotta believe me, my Queen.
Thank you for info
Even as she's telling it , it sounds like fiction. How can she not realise it a scam?!
He had her under his spell.. most scammers practice witchcraft . It will take prayer to
Break it off ..
I dont know how so many ppl fall for these ridiculous stories.
@@mariacleto1502 Not witchcraft. Plain old emotional manipulation.
I've gotten the same approach from my DM's on Instagram. Same exact script!! 💯 ugh... why???????? Yeah, the bucks. Still, it soooo sux. 🤑🤮🤯
Its a lonely world she just needed some love
If you are on the fence and someone tells you they only accept gift cards, IT'S A SCAM!
And bit coins..lol
Really pisses me off that she’s questioning so many things that this guy is saying but then she turns around and does what he asked her to do. It’s like she had a glimmer of intelligence and then turned around and totally look like an idiot. I’m sorry that’s what these people have to be told they are they are complete idiots.
She also said she likes living in a fantasy world... that's your answer 🤷♀️
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Arrogance
Oil rigs 🙄 …. Somewhere, they think they are buying themselves a younger rich person… they are Aways so wealthy yet never have a cent for their stuff.
Bc it’s not about intelligence it’s abt vulnerability and manipulation. Someone can be very smart and know the truth but refuse to accept it so vehemently they push it the farthest part of their mind.
Wake up lady! Even a cashier at Walmart knew lol
Please stop saying she met a man on Facebook.... she didn't meet anyone. Interacting with a social media account is not meeting someone
For real, every episode. You didn't "meet" and you're not "dating."
If they say, "I love you" within the first week, RUN
If he says "I love you" within a SECOND, that's when it's time to run!
Yup. That goes for both online and in real life dating
@@superflatjellyfish yeah but if they say I love you online before ever meeting in person it doesn't matter how long this " love story" is going on for. Run.
Anytime someone’s continuously telling you endless sob stories and always seems to have drama is a red button flag. Most people are a bit embarrassed to air out their messy life. When someone is so open about it and trying to get your help it’s a red flag
Am impressed by how foolish these people are giggling over making themselves destitute, giving away huge amounts of money!
The type of person people want to married to. "Haha oh well" and never hold anyone or anything accountable
Ladies! When will you realize you are not in a relationship until you have met them in person? And would you WANT to be in a relationship with someone who needs your money?!
SCAMFISH continues to reinforce this illusion in conversation with them. They should say you were being groomed and scammed online for 2 years.
Yes. I met a guy at the gas station. He had watched me driving on the road. Hmmm. These guys are everywhere.
She has children what about money for their college wedding car but she sends to to potential lay SELFISH
Never met is a sign of dumbness.
It's not a relationship. If anybody asks for money, ask why they cannot send you some!
Exactly that's wat I do
Exactly! As long as people keep believing in this “Prince Charming” the more they will lose. This makes them think all Americans are rich and dumb.
Well said
They say ..I will pay you back when I get there! LOL it's the sweet words they say to you that got me cause I was so lonely and locked everyone out of my life and I really liked the way he talked to me. He would call me and his accent made me melt. I lived my fantasy out..No more for me
Bella bell grow a brain.
Imagine the Walmart clerk having more sense than this woman. At least she admitted she was determined.
With all due respect, the Walmart clerk can be a college student
@@amir4r803it could be a high school drop out. Doesn't matter. I've met college educated people who were fools and people who went to the 8th grade and had to drop out who were geniuses
This is so insulting. Lol.
Working at Walmart doesn't mean you're dumb. People at the point of sale probably help stop some people from sending.
10.15.2023
@@amir4r803
... OR a middle or high school student with more common sense than a 45 year old woman. 🤷♀️
It’s crazy how this happens to women that admit they are smart. Imagine if one of these scammers was ever able to chat with an idiot.
Might be smart… common sense is a whole other beast
You got 5 kids and 9 grandkids. Tell that guy to find his own mother. No time for another child who needs money. He's a grown-a** man. Let him man-up and finish out the contract or find another way to pay his debts.
There is no contract or debt. Nothing is true except perhaps the people behind these scams are pathologically cruel and do not belong to be free in our society.
Totally agree
She originally said she was not looking for a relationship or romance, yet she had no problem giving a complete stranger online $20 grand.
No no no no no...don't you see, today's EMPOWERED WOMEN have no trouble paying for a man. Gender equality for all!
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You are not in a relationship, if it's solely online. You are simply speaking to someone on Facebook. You need to understand it's NOT a relationship until you meet the person and go out together on dates.
Expensive pen pals
Sexting they pay for it
If she wasn't looking for romance or a relationship why was she on the site at least be honest
@@isay207 she was just on Facebook.
@@sunbeam9222 Yes: Facebook DATING. My goddaughter has recently become single and I didn’t even know there was such a thing because I think being single is the bomb, but there is a section of Facebook for dating. She just didn’t say “Facebook DATING”. She actually WAS looking for a relationship; she just didn’t want us to know for some reason.
I’d find it creepy if a man told me that he loved me after knowing me for a week .
It’s hard to feel bad for some of these people to be honest.
I don't really believe in "friending" people on Facebook that I don't actually know.
People like this keep scammers in business. What happened to common sense?
He needs money but his son is in boarding school. Ladies give your head a shake.
I absolutely ❤️ Linnie! She is gentle with the facts and doesn't make these women feel any worse than they already do. What troubles me most is that even when these women find out they've been scammed they say it will be hard to let the man go.... the relationship. They don't seem to grasp that there IS NO relationship. I worry they will fall for another one.
I would
They all seem to think it's the same guy they've been talking to, just that he used someone else's pictures. They keep talking about him in the present tense. They CANNOT or will not realize the man DOES NOT EXIST, that they are talking to someone who likely is scamming dozens of women at a time (thus the "babe" and "my queen" , so they won't mix up their names.)
often they do fall for another one. You cant fix stupid.
Workers on oil rigs, in the North Sea, earn a fortune. There is no way an American, with an expired passport, could find employment on the rigs. Those workers are very knowledgeable and well trained. It's sad that so many Americans have little knowledge of world affairs or geography. There is no possibility that a man could board a plane, from US to the UK, and end up in Turkey. Additionally, oil rigs don't have the desire or facilities to detain workers. Just a little Google search could have saved her both money and time.
If you fly Turkish Airlines from the USA to the UK, you will change planes in Istanbul, Turkey. Example: LAX-IST-LHR. However, everything else this "man" said was a lie. The bottom line is never send money to anyone. Never lend money to family or friends either unless you are considering it a gift.
@Darla Lett What a smart man! Exactly right.
How much do they earn?
@@animaladvocate8938 $70,000-$100,000 with a 30 day training program
You also cant fly with a soon to expire passport
So Wal Mart girl is smarter than you is what you are saying. Right? Please explain,if some one tells you they are hungry and need food money, how does an Apple itunes card feed them? Or a Steam Card?
Those cards are actually pretty tasty and nutritious.
Anytime these scammers mention “I’m on a rig”. Dump that scammer
My dad gave me the BEST advice.. He said,""" NEVER ,EVER ,EVER, EVER FEEL SORRY FOR A MAN"". He said, ""as a woman, take care of YOURSELF """.
This was the BEST ADVICE.
Pleaseeeeeeeeeee when your guts tell you something is wrong, it is wrong. Please Don’t give a person that you do not know a one cent. Damnit
I agree. And most real mean won't usually come at you with this type of dilemma. They usually won't come whining to you about a problem. You might sense something is wrong, and you'll have to ask them what the problem is. Look for real men, not boys. Everyone might need some help once in a while, but a guy who is a real man, and he wants to impress you, just won't be asking you for money like this. And if he doesn't have resources or friends to go to, before asking you for help, he may have issues that go beyond financial. You don't want a buy without friends or family. That's red flag.
@@jdstep97 Even if he wasn't a scammer, if a guy I've never met would tell me that I'm "all he has in the world", I would run for the hills. It's extremely tragic, but a healthy person has friends or at the very least something going on in their lives; a purpose, a project, anything, and also doesn't need another person to complete them. Yikes!
I got an idiot calling from Amazon and saying I'd spent £1200 on an iPhone.i laughed saying u hate u phones.she put phone down qyick
I phone I'm sorry
their gut says he's trustworthy tho
'Textbook' SCAM.
1. Random contact. >check
2. Works on an Oil Rig. >check
3. Has a young son. >check
4. Instant attraction. >check
5. Wants to come 'home' but can't for various reasons. >check
6. Has a small fortune but needs money. >check.
7. Lawyer fees. >check
8. (Desperation) Hungry and needs money for food. >check
Good thing she finally started to figure it out, albeit late. We could go on . . .
Also son's name is "Kelvin", they love that name for some reason
They all follow the same script.
Idiot>check.
Her or the Scammer? She didn't come off as being an idiot BUT reading the posts with all the cringeworthy 'Hon's', 'Babe's' and throwing $20,000. into the garbage, yeah, she is. Obviously living off money someone else made.
9. Nigerian accent. >check
For a woman that seems to be quite intelligent, it’s amazing how many stupid decisions she made with this scammer.
Nothing she said or did gave me the slightest impression she is remotely intelligent. You might want to rethink how you assess people's intelligence.
Where did you get this impression?
" I tend to live in a fantasy world"
so she just gave the blueprint on how to get whatever you want from her.
As Ric Flair used to always say "Jumpin on is a lot easier than jumpin off". That's why she kept going back for more. It was exciting.
People just want to be loved so badly! I actually love being completely alone most of the time, so no one can trick me! 😊
Exactly. After I lost my husband I dated a couple of guys, Nice guys, but I realize that I really was happier living alone . I love not having to be home at a certain time to cook dinner for a man or clean up after him. I am so content as I am now that, if a guy even looks at me I turn the other way. I don’t want to be fixed up or picked up. Thank you very much. ☺️😊
Being an introvert has not only saved my sanity but secured me financially. Peace is priceless. 💯
@@sunnydaze2359 same here
@@sunnydaze2359 same! And I hate when people try to set me up! For the first time in my life I’m at peace and I want to stay that way.
@@diamonds5457 I totally get you! I have a 30 year old son with special needs that still lives with me. I go out to dinner or drinks with friends occasionally and on weekends I’ll take my son out for lunch or to outdoor markets. It’s the best thing and we are happy with the way things are.
I just can't believe these women!
You don't need too! Or have too either!
@@lunis471 exactly
Don't.😮
One thing that I've never seen covered in these videos are the cases where the scammer then poses as someone who will help the victim get their money back .It happens all the time.
What slays me is how these victims tell the scammer's stories like it is really the truth. I think they watched too many rom/coms. 😂
It also bugs me that the people from catfished use similar language. As in “ needed money for his oil rig” instead of the more accurate “the scammer pretending to be made up a story about needing money for the oil rig”.
Agreed. And those infuriatingly smug "I figured that out" comments.
How can a person deny reality so much?? It’s just obscene….
She didnt. She pretty much knew it was a scam.
@@withgoddess I think that she only came to that realization late in the relationship. Otherwise, why would she have sent money knowing it was a scammer?
People believe what they want to believe. A lot of married people deny the truth about their spouses because of the feel good times.
Lady what's your problem
@@danpinzone8226 loneliness will do weird things to people I guess
Another favorite is a doctor working with “ Doctors without borders”
Another favourite is being in the military but stationed overseas on secret mission
I've not seen them use Doctors without Borders, since the doctors who work with that organization are often volunteers. It's usually the United Nations.
@@dashopepperit’s not like most scam victims will know how Doctors Without Borders operates or will bother to find out.
It’s not a scam when you are too stupid and/or too lazy to do your due diligence to find out about the stranger you’re about to give your time, money and personal info to… this is a VERY good lesson
The thing with passports is that a lot of countries won't let you in if your passport is going to expire soon after you arrive. Also, an expired passport gets you kicked out of the country, not held. They would have automatically sent him home.
I noticed that as well
You cannot be “in a relationship” with someone you never met. I do wish everybody (including Catfish) would stop using that stupid expression.
Oh, I just said the same thing.
Exactly. Absolutely ridiculous
You are only in " in a relationship" with someone if you sleep with them.
Yes I don't understand that.
My dumb neighbor (and she IS dumb) would talk about her "3 boyfriend's".
For 2 years straight we'd tell her he was scamming her and I said, "go outside + meet a real man not somebody in Nigeria ".
And she'd say, "you all will see when he comes here for Thanksgiving".Of course nobody showed up yet she'd be saying the exact same thing at Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day it just went on + on.
She divorced her husband for this fake 23 year old soldier. She got evicted for non payment of rent + is now sleeping on her friend's sofa.
I don't mean to sound cruel but she shoulda asked herself: Why would a 23 year old want me?
I'm 67, 430 pounds, not a tooth in my head. What's the number of the nearest counseling center?
You're basically paying some African to talk pretty to ya--you're simply a John.
@@marciathehooligan3861 I'm 61, and even if a real 23-year-old wanted me, (not likely at all), I wouldn't want him. 23 is 12 years younger than my son. YUK. I'd feel like a pedophile.
Just this morning I got a friend request from someone who left some really bad Google translate comments under some of my posts on FB, the same comment several times. They were really flattering and the typical "I saw your picture and you're so beautiful, I want to get to know you", and his profile claimed that he's a pediatric surgeon at the United Nations, lmao. I don't think that's even a thing. So, I reverse image searched his photo, and lo and behold, photo was stolen. Blocked and reported him. He had an obviously fake name too, like James Benjamin (always a first name for last name, that's a dead giveaway), and no friends in common. Blockety block block block!
"Pediatric surgeon at the United Nations"? I can top that. A scammer told me he was a four star general in the US Army. I said, "Oh really? Well, Wikipedia has a list of every four star general who has ever been in the US Army, starting with George Washington, and your name isn't on there." (He said his name was Virgie Grande.) He said, "That's because what I am doing is so top secret." I said, "Oh. so top secret yet you're messaging some random woman on Facebook? Get lost."
Why not change your settings so strangers can't access your profile...
Some of it's genuine incompetence, but apparently alot of these scammers deliberately make errors or unrealistic stories because if you're willing to overlook/not notice those, you're more likely to be gullible enough to send money. So it's sort of a vetting mechanism.
@@withgoddess he commented on my profile picture, which is public.
Yes I had a friend request yesterday, he said he was am orthopaedic and plastic surgeon, told me how beautiful I am etc. asking me if I own my own property, I just blocked him. I am a widow now and could understand that the sweet talk can be very flattering.
These scammers give legitimate oil-rig workers a bad name.
Legitimate oil rig workers don't ask for money
Getting angry then being nice is a common manipulation technique. It keeps you stuck to them.
As soon as she said he would get angry with her I was baffled as to why she disappeared automatically Blick him then. If some stranger online gives MS attitude I block them immediately
Dr. Phil story
But she's in an online relationship, as opposed to a real-life one. I can understand partners who don't leave abusive relationships they're in because they have no money, no support system, and nowhere to go. Those people *are* stuck. In her case, all she had to do was block him. BAM! Unstuck.
"so then this happened, and I thought well that's strange but whatever I sent the money...then this happened, and I thought well that's strange but whatever I sent the money...then this happened, and I thought well that's strange but whatever I sent the money..."
Lol
ha! 😂
If a man ask you money....RUN
If ANYONE you don't know ask immediately block them
Out of curiosity, I got on a dating website and said I was a widow, lonely and would just like to meet a nice man to talk to. It took all of about a minute for two men to want to chat. Yeah. The predators are that fast.
Ok, but how does that make them scammers? It's a dating site. Same thing happens to me Everytime I go on Tinder or Bumble and I haven't been asked for money once.
Yes like sharks getting a whiff of blood in the water
At what point are people going to get it through their heads that when anyone acts you for money you need to run!!
Especially if you’ve never met them in person 😢
How does a grown man not have any access to money?? Do people believe this? 😡
Lmao each time I hear these scammers stories , something is always common “ dead wife with son in boarding school “
It’s like they all use the same script lmao 🤣🤣
If the man really cares about you, he will never ask you money. But giving !
Can't buy it!😮
"When you're determined you do it"
And THAT my friends is the secret to success in life.
Pay attention to phrases that don’t sound right. “My wife has been dead for four years” no one from US would say it that way, it sounds disrespectful. Also, sending your child to a boarding school is not common here… they are more prevalent outside of US. “You are my queen”… God-fearing, etc…Hear these and run 🏃♀️
Are you sure about that?? Most don't even tell you they are married with kids. They know how to pick they're prey. Go on a real dating site if you are looking for a partner, you even have to watch that. Just be cautious. I feel bad for her. She is not dumb by any means, just lonely and vulnerable. I hope she finds happiness someday with a decent man.
They always use "babe" or "my queen". Because they are scamming a hundred people at the same time and would get the names all mixed up.
Yep
@@whatwhat8524 not a lot men talk like that only younger men mor urban or thugs talk like that a white man saying babe my queen lol please . And these accents aren't French or European lol 😆
@@Arizona_lilly What are you talking about? Wyt guys say babe ALL THE TIME!
Do these scammers use black magic or what? I don't understand how one can send such huge sums of money to people they have never seen or met!
Yes they do.... They add black magic to these scams, I've seen it in a documentary filmed in Ghana.. Sad but true
Perhaps the sunk cost fallacy. Sounds like she sent him a little money the first time, then a little more, then a little more, etc. Probably why the scammers ask for a little the first time because it's no big deal. Then the more the woman sends, the less likely she will be to pull the plug.
They use something worse than black magic - romance for the vulnerable and lonely
They know how to pick vulnerable victims and they know how to manipulate people.
Emotional manipulation, plus desperation on the side of these women
If this guy can supposedly can afford to put his kid in boarding school, then he doesn't need money from you. Boarding schools are super expensive and they don't let kids stay there unless you pay and on time!!! These women need to learn to think out of the box and learn to use more of their critical and creative thinking skills..
Someone calls me his "Queen", I'm out of there! It seems like it's out of their playbook!
I’m to cheap I wouldn’t give 1p
In my cheap opinion, you would be giving 1p too much 🤣
No wonder
Oil rig, kid in boarding school, nope, no red flags there. At least she figured it out, better late than never.
Giving money to someone you have never met = crazy !
I'm concerned. What about all those lonely REAL oil rig workers out there? They deserve love too! But the minute they meet someone online and say 'Hi, I work on an oil rig..." Kaboom, they're toast.
Ahahah so true. Same for soldiers and doctors.
@@ellaella5537 - You won't find *ANY* genuine professionals on cheap dating sites.
@@opo3628 or messaging strangers 😂
Lol. My friend's dad was actually a divorced oil rig worker! I think of her every time I watch one of these. "Poor Tamara's dad. He would never find love today."
@@Katie2986 Quran 3:32: Allah does not love the disbelievers.
You have to love him before heoves you! Lol. Q. 4:34: he prefers (verb form of fadl) men over women and so has made them the custodians of women and tells them to strike (same verb as cutting off heads) wives in whom they fear rebeliousness. 😂
I'm sorry your Husband Died🙏🏼🙏🏼 That's Where The Sympathy Ends
Same
I think my sister is being catfished. I can't convince her that she is being catfished, and she's stopped talking to me about it.
Mine too.
You tried. They have a lesson to learn.
We all do in life.
Let her go.
After watching these videos for a couple of days, I have come to a conclusion.
These “victims” are paying for a fantasy that in their hearts they know is not real.
The “scammer” is supplying their fantasy and the “victim” is paying dollars, be it hundreds or thousands as the price of admission. I don’t see victims or perpetrators, I see a mutual agreement, albeit an unspoken one.
I think in some cases you are right. THey are reluctant to cut off contact often even after knowing they are scammed.
Agreed, the scammers are providing a service that is obviously very much in demand.
we should just set up call centers here in the states. for a nominal fee the victim can hear all the lovey-dovey gibberish and wild concocted stories by an employee with a thick Nigerian Accent. this way we keep the money here to stimulate our economy 😉😉
Just can’t get over how gullible these women are .
Men get scammed too
I’m addicted to this show
I am, too! I must be hard hearted because I would tell these men no. Who wants a relationship with someone who is always begging for cash? I would be asking why don't they have any friends or family?
Me too
Same. Wednesday mornings are the best!
DON'T GIVE MONEY TO SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW, PERIOD!!!
And don't give money to people you do know either!
Real men don’t ask for money
They provide their women 🙂
Thank you! I keep saying this.
Real women know how to take care of themselves and don't need a sponsor. Girl.
@@babschampagne8377 feminist who nag and ant and want to control you you mean
Don’t come back and complain about it!
@@babschampagne8377 wrong
Men want to take care of us women
Real men
No ,,,real men don't give any money to anyone,,, what's up gold digger?
How do people believe that a man who has a good job doesn't even have money for food? And that they only take a Steam card as payment for said food? That makes no sense.
NEVER GIVE A MAN MONEY NO MATTER WHAT
What if you owe a man money??
And men shouldn't give strange women money either
Dam right. And I'm a man. No real man would ever ask a woman he is dating for any money.
What if he is an employee?😶
A real man wouldn't take it.
"Babe I got to London, but now I'm in Turkey" Say what?? 😂😂😂
Do you know geography???
I landed in LA but they sent me to Portland to quarantine 🙄
I don’t understand the concept of grown adults with jobs thinking they are in a relationship with someone they have never met. To me It’s something teenagers would say when msn and tumbler and MySpace first came out.
That’s something I went through as a teen lol I’d chat with this guy on msn messenger and say he’s my bf. This is just disturbing when it’s old ladies lol
Never met? Hahahaha
Linnie it's wonderful! She explains these things to them like a peer. I think they understand it better when she is the one explaining it.
This woman is not as old and unattractive as most of the victims, she is very attractive. She could get a real boyfriend who isn’t a scammer.
agreed
True. She could probably get a real boyfriend who is more attractive than the photos the scammer sent too. Though, I will give the scammer props for at least using realistic photos to try and scam a woman over 50 instead of using photos from a 30 year old Instagram model.
I agree.
But she would have to get off her computer go out be interested in others none of them ever do
I agree. In my opinion, she is very attractive, well spoken, and smart. Yes, I know she fell for this, but she strikes me as smart. Peace.
Can’t believe people are so gullible. 100 dollars but when it’s thousands think
This woman was looking for adventure. She would have no problem meeting someone in her real life. And if you're looking to fix broken people, you'll be scammed in your real life too.
She craves attention😮
I don’t know why but she seems like the type who probably screamed at the Walmart cashier who didn’t sell her the gift cards.
👍🏼
No she doen't
Nope
It’s funny how she knows everything after she has been told. Lol
That's what they all say lol
She's trying to hold on to a scrap of dignity.
tryinyto save face but can’t fool us just admit you were stupid. cmon now.. women will never admit when they’re wrong 😑
🙂 When I see things like this, I am very grateful for being poor. Selling your house to send money to someone you have never actually met, is just shockingly silly. EDIT: Jeez. Never expected a throw away jokey comment to produce so many nutty replies. 🤣
What has being poor got too do with anything?
I'm in Virginia, and the Walmarts here will have you buy the gift cards at Customer Service, where they'll ask you why you're buying the cards. It's a bit frustrating for me when I'm actually buying them for my distant siblings for Christmas, but I can understand why they're doing that.
@@lilnitenurse324 I honestly don’t think it’s anybody’s business why or whom you’re buying the cards for. Ridiculous…..
It’s not silly….it’s downright stupid.
Yeah, hard to get blood from a pebble! Ain’t got nothing to give!
"we can't video chat as the static on the rig would blow it up" that's one dangerous rig !
Even if the guy was real the manipulation would be a HUGE turn-off; disqualified from my life.
They dont let you txt or ring ppl whilst being detained.
No one uses gift cards for bills or anything involving the authorities. How can ppl not see how stupid that sounds. Use common sense.
How can you be that naive and desperate ? Hope she learn her lesson.
Seriously, you have no idea how it can happen until it happens to you. I thought the same thing! It is much more complicated, evil, and emotionally manipulative than you can imagine!
I got scammed back in 2017 and lost a lot of money. I never in a million years thought that would happen to me. It is NOT about being "smart" or 'dumb."
It’s getting under my skin that the investigator lady is chuckling and smiling as she tells her what was found