Russian beauty scam

[summerdays]

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.

I always thought it was a pocket full of marbles

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Phew....

The thought of a world without Miss Goodbody

I have it on good authority she was due out on a Christmas do with Samantha from ISIHAC but they didn't turn up, something to do with nightclub drink prices and liking to meet up with their dates in advance to get a couple of stiff ones in at home first.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Funny how the girls are university lecturer types ,good jobs and successful..
yet they can't pay a 200 quid bill..or any bill after that ...

 

[ufkacbln]

I constantly get texts telling me I am owned thousand of pounds from an accident I never had. They are all deleted straight away. Of course it is a scam.

I had one of these...

It went very well

They couldn't give me a date, but were sure it was one of the three I confessed to having during the previous 6 months

I explained how I was upset that I had not been able to claim for damage to the car or personal injury

So they took details

After about ten minutes they were happier and happier

That is when I asked if the following had any effect onthe claim
It was a stolen car
I had lost control and hit a family of 5 at a bus stop
I have no license or insurance
I blew 150 mg on the Breathalyser
The Police had also noted the Crack Cocaine I had taken earlier in the evening

For some reason they hung up

 

[swee'pea99]

I always thought it was a pocket full of marbles

Brings to mind that old reggae classic "o...o-o-o, me ears are alight."

 

[Haitch]

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.

I have a friend whose daughter met a Filipino man over the internet. She went out there to meet him. He had no intention of leaving his wife. She came back disillusioned and pregnant with twins.

 

[TVC]

I had one of these...

It went very well

They couldn't give me a date, but were sure it was one of the three I confessed to having during the previous 6 months

I explained how I was upset that I had not been able to claim for damage to the car or personal injury

So they took details

After about ten minutes they were happier and happier

That is when I asked if the following had any effect onthe claim
It was a stolen car
I had lost control and hit a family of 5 at a bus stop
I have no license or insurance
I blew 150 mg on the Breathalyser
The Police had also noted the Crack Cocaine I had taken earlier in the evening

For some reason they hung up

My one recently, they said "Our records show that someone in your family had a minor accident recently". My response "Minor accident? MINOR ACCIDENT?? You sick bas***d, he's still in a coma!".
There was a few seconds silence before they hung up.

 

[MarkF]

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.

Lonely men look in the mirror and see themselves 30 years ago. I've tried for nearly a decade to convince a now 54 year old that women 30 years younger are not desperate for him.

 

[Tin Pot]

My one recently, they said "Our records show that someone in your family had a minor accident recently". My response "Minor accident? MINOR ACCIDENT?? You sick bas***d, he's still in a coma!".
There was a few seconds silence before they hung up.

Ha ha

I did similar when someone phones me asking for my wife. I sounded very concerned - who's calling, can I give her a message blah blah. She's had an accident?! Oh my farking God? Is she ok? Just tell me! What the has happened!!?? Where is she?!

Yeah they hung up.

 

[ufkacbln]

Lonely men look in the mirror and see themselves 30 years ago. I've tried for nearly a decade to convince to a now 54 year old, that women 30 years younger are not desperate for him.

First Santa isn't true, then Ms Goodbody (now reassured)

...... and now none of the young ladies really fancy me

My life is one big disillusionment

 

[Globalti]

You don't need an invitation to visit the UK. That's only needed going the other way.

Er.... read the link, it seems to say Russians need visas. Many nationalities need visas to come here.

 

[ufkacbln]

Bizarrely I am at a comfortable age (56) where I have been married over 30 years, and I am seen as "safe" by young ladies

Yesterday was an example.

Sat in a Christmas Market bar with the almost blind MiL when two young ladies asked if they could sit on our table

I explained to MiL who they were and what was happening, we then spent 30 mins chatting away about their shopping, how my MiL remembered Christmas during the war and other things

At the end one of them leant over, kissed me on the cheek and told me I was "lovely" because of the way I looked after and involved the MiL

I have no illusions about this, but it is fantastic being able to chat without the possibility of any ulterior motive undermining things

I know others are not as Lucky in their family and relationships

 

[Profpointy]

Er.... read the link, it seems to say Russians need visas. Many nationalities need visas to come here.

yebbutt mostly a visa is filling in a form and paying a (modest) fee. I have had visas to visit India, Cuba, USA, Australia, and it's not big deal. I know some Russians who have worked here, and presumably they too just filled in the forms.

Coming over to live is another thing, but coming over to visit, or even to work for 6 months isn't such a big deal mostly

(comment on the quoted point, not on (un-)wisdom of the OP's described story)

 

[nickyboy]

yebbutt mostly a visa is filling in a form and paying a (modest) fee. I have had visas to visit India, Cuba, USA, Australia, and it's not big deal. I know some Russians who have worked here, and presumably they too just filled in the forms.

Coming over to live is another thing, but coming over to visit, or even to work for 6 months isn't such a big deal mostly

(comment on the quoted point, not on (un-)wisdom of the OP's described story)

Russians need a visa to visit UK for anything other than 24 hour transit. It is a lot more than filling in a form and paying a fee. It often involves a personal interview at the British embassy or consulate in Russia and a detailed explanation of itinerary, funding of the trip etc etc. A significant number are refused, particularly for business travel

 

[Globalti]

I have to apply regularly for business visas for African countries and they are a pain in the neck, generally requiring letters of invitation from you local contact, often endorsed by the local Police, along with company letters, copies of household bills, bank accounts and all kinds of other stuff. This is usually a tit-for-tat thing because Britain makes it so difficult for other nationals to get UK visas. The worst visa to apply for is Nigerian, which requires the use of a web form that's so crap and designed to frustrate that I just hand it to a visa agent in London who does them all the time. Others like Ivory Coast require you to travel to London where you enter a stinking filthy consular office, a delightful little piece of Africa in Belgravia, to be fingerprinted for an e-visa. Last time I went down they couldn't get my fingerprints because my fingers are smooth from lots of DIY so after three hours they gave up and hand-wrote an old style visa. Oh and the fees aren't modest; that for Nigeria costs $475.