Russian beauty scam

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[winjim]

Get Nev Schulman on the case.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Could well be a scamhttp://www.stop-scammers.com/scammer.asp?id=1657

 

[Tin Pot]

She is a man.

 

[Globalti]

Here's what will happen: she will head off to the airport and she or a close relative will have a terrible accident and need cash, fast, for hospital treatment. Or she will lose her travel documents and need cash for replacements.

http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/emergencies/scams/dating.html

And:

https://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14766

These scum prey on the lonely, vulerable, elderly and gullible. Older folk are generally more trusting as people in old days weren't as nasty and cunning.

 

[midlife]

Could well be a scamhttp://www.stop-scammers.com/scammer.asp?id=1657

That's from 2006, I bet she doesn't look as good now

I'm afraid I am a cynic when it comes to all this, something is fishy and I don't mean the contents of Baldrick's trousers......

Shaun

 

[ianrauk]

Is this a scam?

All looks pukka to me. What could go wrong?

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

That's from 2006, I bet she doesn't look as good now

I'm afraid I am a cynic when it comes to all this, something is fishy and I don't mean the contents of Baldrick's trousers......

Shaun

It might well be from 2006, but I would still say it's a rather successful scam if it's still going in 2015.

 

[TVC]

Wot Globalti said.

The old saying never fails. If it looks too good to be true.....

The difficult bit will be getting him to realise it is a scam without him looking like an idiot.

 

[Fnaar]

Absolutely is a scam. Tell him not to be so bloody stupid.

 

[midlife]

It might well be from 2006, but I would still say it's a rather successful scam if it's still going in 2015.

True .

Maybe someone on here could volunteer to offer to meet the said lady on 29th Dec to sus the situation out, sort of like a test drive to see if she matches the pictures

Shaun

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 4041216, member: 43827"]We can't seem to talk sense into him and are trying to avoid falling out with him over this by telling him he's probably getting personal with a burly Nigerian man.

He has history in this area as he was scammed out of £800 a couple of years ago in Istanbul for champagne he bought for a "lady" at a nightclub. He was taken by the bouncers to a cashpoint to get the money out before they let him go.

There's no fool like an old fool.[/QUOTE]
You can't help some people... I have given up trying with my own brother. He is an idiot, and will continue to make stupid mistakes no matter how much effort I put into it. So I've stopped doing so.

 

[TVC]

If he has the photo try to get him to do a reverse image search and see how many times it is used on the internet.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808?hl=en

 

[midlife]

Better still, post the image on here and we'll search for him

Shaun

 

[AndyRM]

Horrible situation to be in.

Can you or another friend go with him?