Beware: Your Match.com Crush Probably Doesn’t Love You If He’s Asking For $86,000

[Nye Bevan]

You might not be able to mend a broken heart or get back any money you sent to the object of your affection under the mistaken illusion that he/she loved you, but that’s why we’re here, to learn from the unfortunate lessons served on others before you’re tempted to say, wire someone you met on a dating site $86,000.

Today’s tale of warning comes from the story of a New Jersey woman who cashed out her entire life savings on a fellow she met on Match.com, reports CBS New York.

Over the course of her six-month relationship with the man, who the victim said claimed to be 60 but used a fake picture and dating profile, the woman says she was scammed out of $86,000. He wove elaborate tales of financial problems to convince her he needed the money, she says.

“I cashed money out of an IRA; out of, you know, retirement money,” the woman said. “I’ve always been a very rational person, and everything told me: ‘No, you have to question this. It doesn’t sound right.’”

http://consumerist.com/2014/04/07/beware-your-match-com-crush-probably-doesnt-love-you-if-hes-asking-for-86000/

Stay safe out there!

[Orrex]

1. That'll teach her not to date Nigerian royalty

[seveneyes]

2. "I’ve always been a very rational person"

I find that hard to believe. Sending that kind of money to someone you have not met isn't even in the same dictionary as "rational."

[TlalocW]

3. I once kept a scammer going for about three weeks

"She" had been living very close to me in the midwest but had to go back to Ghana to take care of her sick mom. Of course, her profile picture was beautiful, but along with the general unlikelihood of the situation there were a couple of other glaring problems. "She" said she liked my "structure," which I think was a bad translation of profile, and her height and weight fell into the impossible category, probably the result of bad math trying to change from metric to American, which she wouldn't have had a problem with if she had lived in America as long as she claimed.

Anyway, I kept "her" going for 3 weeks, and we finally declared our mutual love for each other, and I told her that I would be on the next plane to Ghana as soon as she sent me money to buy a ticket as I was broke.

Never heard from her again.

TlalocW

[11 Bravo]

4. Beautiful! LOL is over used, but I literally did just that.