Hell I'm a scammer magnet~~~~~~~

I made a mistake on a profile on another site one time and accidentally listed my age as 76. I still got emails from 20 yo BOYS

That cracked me up - I have too.

well my assumption is that what they did was see my photo and not notice my age....but ya never can tell


besides I'm too old for them anyway

It's funny, I don't consider myself old - although, too old for a 20something - but I also remember being that age and believing, along with a lot of other 20somethings then, 40s were so far off (I'm now 43), I'd/we'd be dead by then anyway.....Maybe the age death pit for this generations 20something has been extended beyond 40something :)

I got 3 scams last night and I'm not sure, but pretty sure I'm engaged now.

That's a completely different kind of scam. They don't even need Yahoo for that one.

hurumph

I feel left out - no scammers wanna marry me? what's up with that? should I have an inferiority complex?

they all just want me to tell the more

which I am not going to do...

haha. Some guy the other night told me he loved me after the second email.

I have had a few who love me from my pic alone.

Goes to show how wonderful mingle girls are.

Could it be you are just too hard to please Lex.?

You post in previous threads that you are feeling alone so yea maybe folks don't read all you write but they are respnding to you so you don't feel lonely and forgotten. Take it for what it is recognition that you are noticed and maybe even interesting.

A nudge doesn't oblige you to do anything.

So what if it is a scammer? Maybe they are as lonely as you are? Life must suck pretty bad if that is the only way you can make it in the world. Probably they have a quota or something.

Just a frame you could put around it rather than let it give you heartburn.

lol - so based on that guys speed, you'll be married by New Years :) Congrats? and what do ya want for a wedding gift

I don't think that's the problem. Back when I used to respond to nudges from strangers, the follow-ups would ALWAYS be (I do mean ALWAYS) "Here's my Yahoo address, send me a note and I'll send you some of my naughty pix!" I'm sure if I responded to that one, she would be asking for money for those pics.

And I'm just not interested in any of that.



You would have to see the follow-up communication to get my point. "You seem interesting, I would love to be with you so we could start the family and live as happy." If anyone had read a dozen of my posts, or had read my profile, they would know that I'm not looking for anything along those lines.

In the end, the nudgers are trolling for return nudges or e-mails so they can distribute their smut for a profit. They have boilerplate e-mails they send out to those who respond. I know this stuff, I've been catching scammers for years, and these people couldn't care less if I'm feeling lonely or forgotten. They just want to get in my wallet.



And it's safe for the scammer, too, since it includes no indicators which would identify the person AS a scammer. It's a way to gauge interest, I suppose. If they can snag someone who is interested in getting the naughty pics, they can assume the person won't report the scamming. But they've reached the point where they're being a little more cautious about the first contact.



A significant proportion of them aren't even women. They're guys posing as women on line to lure in the guys.



No heartburn. A minor annoyance, when I get 5 or 6 in a row. But I enjoy finding them and getting them nuked. I take some satisfaction from knowing that I've inconvenienced them, even if only briefly. Sure, they may come back with another fake account when the current one gets taken down, but they won't be bothering any of our members for a little while.

OK now i;m pissed the scammers are hitting on me now.Oh i want to meet you i;m from africa living with my mum.22 year old what do they think i'm spupid there no 22 year old fox that wants this old man even though it might not be a bad idea for a nite or to lol.Grrrr there profile says there from TX and its later they tell you oh know i live in Africa why the hell is it always Africa?.Most of them are white how many freaking white people live in Africa that are living in TX at the same time?.Martin wants to know