mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Vicars are known for that sort of thing now, are they?
Russian beauty scam
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ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
[QUOTE 4041189, member: 43827"]I have a 71 year old widower friend who has been looking on dating sites for a new partner. He has been in touch for a while with a beautiful 35 year old divorcee (her husband used to beat her apparently) from Ekaterinburg in the Urals area of Russia. She has sent him photos of herself in a bikini and is a university lecturer, and they can only communicate via email as she says she doesn't have access to Skype or Face time. She says she is in love with him and tells him all the things she would like to do to him 
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She is now arranging to fly to Heathrow on December 30th so they can meet up.
We've all tried to tell him to be careful but he says she hasn't mentioned money and he is besotted.
Is this a scam? Should we just leave him get on with it as we may all be wrong and just jealous, as he thinks we are.[/QUOTE]
Almost certainly a scam!
I have just had the same with a cousin in Aus, who is in his 50's. Contacted by a 'model', they can't meet up as she's currently in Europe, etc etc. Profile is that of a typical scammer.
I warned him but he wasn't too happy with that. I messaged him to ask how he's doing and he ignored me. Oh well, can't say I didn't tell him!
.She is now arranging to fly to Heathrow on December 30th so they can meet up.
We've all tried to tell him to be careful but he says she hasn't mentioned money and he is besotted.
Is this a scam? Should we just leave him get on with it as we may all be wrong and just jealous, as he thinks we are.[/QUOTE]
Almost certainly a scam!
I have just had the same with a cousin in Aus, who is in his 50's. Contacted by a 'model', they can't meet up as she's currently in Europe, etc etc. Profile is that of a typical scammer.
I warned him but he wasn't too happy with that. I messaged him to ask how he's doing and he ignored me. Oh well, can't say I didn't tell him!
But Miss Goodbody does exist, Fnaar wants her all for himself.
[QUOTE 4041491, member: 43827"]His drinking pals have agreed that we'll have to be a bit more blunt with him next week, and get over to him that the minute any money is mentioned he has to get the message and bail out.
If he doesn't take any notice then he lives with the consequences.
I'll revisit this thread at the beginning of January, and I'd love to be proved wrong, but I'm not hopeful.
He went to Paris for a few days last year and was convinced the barmaid at his hotel fancied him. So he went back a few months later and tried to get more friendly with her, but she told him that that was just her way of talking to customers.
I guess he is a hopeless case but I don't want to see him humiliated again as he is a good bloke.[/QUOTE]
Can you encourage him to join a local walking group, tea dance club or such, there are plenty of suitable single/widowed women of his age looking for genuine company. He needs to shake off the idea that he's going to find a woman 30 years his junior.
If he doesn't take any notice then he lives with the consequences.
I'll revisit this thread at the beginning of January, and I'd love to be proved wrong, but I'm not hopeful.
He went to Paris for a few days last year and was convinced the barmaid at his hotel fancied him. So he went back a few months later and tried to get more friendly with her, but she told him that that was just her way of talking to customers.
I guess he is a hopeless case but I don't want to see him humiliated again as he is a good bloke.[/QUOTE]
Can you encourage him to join a local walking group, tea dance club or such, there are plenty of suitable single/widowed women of his age looking for genuine company. He needs to shake off the idea that he's going to find a woman 30 years his junior.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Something similar happened to a friend of mine. Chap called John in the USAF contacted my mate over match.com. All going swimmingly, no skyping though as USAF have banned it (first I have heard of that), he was due into Heathrow on whatever flight, which was a scheduled flight, but suddenly he was arrested by the Airforce police for something he didn't do and needed money as he had used his air fair to bail himself out. Thankfully, at the time, I had an a busy business and she rang me for help. I drove down, with a very tech savvy friend, who searched for 'john' and found his picture on about 3 scam sites. My mate was not bitten by this particular rat. In fact she dated my tech savvy pal for a short while until they decided that Stoke - Devon was not making for a terrific relationship.
It's such a common scam, it's unreal.I really hope that the OP can help their friend and that Moscow does not become a horrible and expensive reality.
It's such a common scam, it's unreal.I really hope that the OP can help their friend and that Moscow does not become a horrible and expensive reality.
Booyaa
Veteran
- Location
- South Staffordshire
It's incredible to think that people fall for this kind of thing, much like the Nigerian prince wanting to transfer millions of money to you.
swee'pea99
Squire
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles,
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.
The Boxer - Paul Simon
Send him the link in Msg 3. If that doesn't do the trick, probably nothing will. It's all terribly sad. It's not vanity, it's loneliness, and a desperate and inevitably doomed rearguard action against mortality.
For a pocketful of mumbles,
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.
The Boxer - Paul Simon
Send him the link in Msg 3. If that doesn't do the trick, probably nothing will. It's all terribly sad. It's not vanity, it's loneliness, and a desperate and inevitably doomed rearguard action against mortality.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
Wait a minute.....are you in Cardiff?
And he is going to Heathrow to pick her up?
Who is paying for the flight?
Has he spoke on the phone with her?
I can only imagine it is a scam of some sort and either she wont show up or money will be involved at some stage of the game. Keep us informed. It is intriguing.
If this works out. Can you PM me with a link to the site before you let everyone else know
And he is going to Heathrow to pick her up?
Who is paying for the flight?
Has he spoke on the phone with her?
I can only imagine it is a scam of some sort and either she wont show up or money will be involved at some stage of the game. Keep us informed. It is intriguing.
If this works out. Can you PM me with a link to the site before you let everyone else know
Globalti
Legendary Member
What about the small matter of her VISA TO ENTER THE UK?
Ask your pal if he wrote her a letter of invitation for the UK visa and if he didn't, how does he think she got the letter? Tell him to ask her to photograph and send a copy of her visa. He can pretend he's desperately worried that his Love won't be able to enter because the visa rules for Russians were changed this weekend, or summat. Use the Turkey-Russia tension as a reason.
https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/russia/tourism
(If I was him I would then say: "Doesn't matter; my brother works in Immigration and can fix it. Send me, say, $100, (a small enough amount that the Mafia won't come after him) and I'll get you a special permission to enter. Thus reversing the scam.)
Ask your pal if he wrote her a letter of invitation for the UK visa and if he didn't, how does he think she got the letter? Tell him to ask her to photograph and send a copy of her visa. He can pretend he's desperately worried that his Love won't be able to enter because the visa rules for Russians were changed this weekend, or summat. Use the Turkey-Russia tension as a reason.
https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/russia/tourism
(If I was him I would then say: "Doesn't matter; my brother works in Immigration and can fix it. Send me, say, $100, (a small enough amount that the Mafia won't come after him) and I'll get you a special permission to enter. Thus reversing the scam.)
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Dayvo
just passin' through
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Just tell him to browse the ad. section in the local rag. Less travelling, like.
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
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- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
It's one of the older Internet scams. Pictures of Russian girls with a link were the original con before malware took over.
jefmcg
Guru
You don't need an invitation to visit the UK. That's only needed going the other way.
What a charming site! They know it's visited by people willing to cough up money on the internet, which is how they feel they can get away with charging $17.99 for information that apparently 9 years old (if they had update their site more recently than that, why are their example letters all from 2006?)
Everyone here is probably right, it sounds like a scam but ....
I had a friend, a young man, who decided he was fed up with English women. He met a girl online, a Filipina, and eventually went to meet her, despite my warnings. When he got there, she did indeed exist, but had badly timed it and more than one of her online boyfriends had come at the same time, so she introduced him to her friend. He came back engaged to the friend. After much fussing with immigration, and much expense she eventually married him and came to live with him. 10 years later they are still happily married.
