I was just searching profiles on here (as you do) and I found another one of those dodgy looking profiles with extremely poor grammar, horrible typos and it said that her location is a Scottish city but the country that she put down is England. She says in her blurb that she was born in that city but the weirdest thing is that she claims to be a native American.

Now, I have seen a lot of these on another site where it's obvious that these people can't be Scottish at all but they aren't actually breaking any site rules as far as I know and they just have profiles that are obviously bogus. What do you guys think about this?

It's the nature of the beast....Easy to spot, easy to step around....It doesn't bother me...

I seen one before where someone claimed they where from California, New York! I just usually laugh and move on.There are scammers in every aspect of life I take pity on them because this is how they spend their precious time on earth.

Not a problem. When I'm out behind the barn and see a fresh one dropped
from a cow, I step around or over it when possible.

You have such a way with words, Vanilla...

That pretty much sums up a lot problems in life buddy!!!

On another dating site, I responded to one member whom said she lived in Manchester, UK. Since it is not far from where I live and I know the place well. I received a reply to say they were now in Malaysia on business but would return home soon, however they seemed to know very little of Manchester and I suspect they had never even been there. I never heard from them again. They are scammers. We just have to accept the nuisances and report those we strongly suspect as scammers to the website.

I went on this other site that was some sort of Facebook thing I think and apparently Edinburgh now has a lot of latinos and native Americans that are looking for men. It was completely ridiculous. One of them even said that she's currently studying at UCLA. What sort of dipshit would think that these people are for real? Is it that they suppose that they have to target the stupidest people on the internet because they are more likely to send them money and that way they won't waste time trying to con anyone that isn't buttoned up the back?

I think you are crediting them with too much intelligence, the errors are more likely because of their ignorance of the situation they purport to live in.

Yeah, I guess so. Seems like they just let anyone into these American colleges these days.

Not enough evidence to make a call on your experience.

I do know American's tend to be and identify with a mixed cultural background. I am of the Kaw tribe Native American and Irish heritage but I know only minimal amount about Ireland. Probably why I would consider a very affordable low level summer course on Irish or European studies and travel with a student group for pleasure from University of California at Davis, Ca. that is very near my home. Some college course do not require great intellect but often are filler courses for careers that are highly in demand in highly technical careers such as Bio medical or Alternate Energy.

I know several medical researchers who are brilliant at what they do but their dating skills are almost non existent because they spent much of their younger social lives buried in study and career.

Granted some of the scammers have very flimbsey stories but sometimes truth does sound more like fiction out of context.

Well, it's certainly true that there are Americans and Canadians and people from other countries that come over here to study or work. Someone being born in Aberdeen Scotland and being native American is a bit too far fetched to credit though. There aren't any latinos or native Americans in Scotland. I've never heard of any anyway. I know that America is a melting pot and all that and that loads of you that may seem to be caucasian have some native American blood but is it becoming like how any American that has a Scottish surname wants to say that they are Scottish and come over here to buy a kilt and meet their clan cheiftan? No true Scotsman even knows who his clan cheiftan is, or cares. Like I said to some guys that I know on another site, it would be a bit like me going through the phonebook and calling people up that have the same surname as me and asking them if I could tap them for a loan or telling them that we're getting together to fight the English.

LOL so true in someways.

But American Service members frequently marry locals and have babies in the mother's home town.

I am amazed how many really ridiculous questions I get too. I don't look Native? Well what do they expect me to look like? Still live in a Tepee and walk around with feathers in my braided hair and a blanket draped over my shoulders? If a Native American were to walk past you I doubt you would know the difference from their physical characteristics with over 300 tribes in the northern continent it is pretty diverse group.

I do think the geographical size and population of Scotland has a great deal to do with why many tourists think it is pretty familiar. Scotland is not that much smaller than some counties in the USA and would fit several in one state. Americans tend to mingle across state borders like they are not there where I wonder if National pride plays a role in your thinking.

Depending which Scottish Highland Festival you attend here in the USA I would imagine there are more persons of full direct Scottish decent than the population of Aberdeen.

When I went to the minor one in Stone Mtn. Georgia there was guessing upwards of 20,000? The park and city were packed.

Members of Clan Donnachaidh know who their chief is, and they can meet him at the annual international clan meeting that takes place outside of Pitlochry.

By the way, there are Native Americans who can trace their lineage back to Scotland.

It is a multicultural society here now and things have changed quite a lot in my lifetime. There's a woman that lives in my block that's Thai, for example and I had a chat with her the other day when I was taking my dog out for a walk. She had her granddaughter with her and she told me that the kid's name is Isla, which is a Scottish name. The kid is full blood Thai though.

There are a lot of Italians here and they have fitted in pretty well and mixed with us so that there are people that come from Italian families that identify themselves as Scots and a lot of the catholics in Glasgow have Irish ancestry but even though there's a large Pakistani community here and quite a lot of Chinese, they tend to stick to their own kind and retain their own culture. In recent years we've had a lot of eastern European imigrants but they tend to be the same and they haven't really fitted in yet, like the Italians have, although I used to know a girl that I would call Scottish but she had a Polish surname. Could be that her family came here after the war. Some did.

You are right that Scotland is a small country and a large proportion of it is quite sparsely populated. Even down here in the Lowlands there are a lot of hills, with not much there apart from farms and small towns and villages. I think that Scotland has always been more of a place that people want to leave because of the problems that we've had here. Tourism is our biggest industry really. Well, we haven't really got any other industries left now. In East Lothian, where I lived from the age of thirteen until I came back to Edinburgh when I was twenty eight, there's not much there apart from golf courses and farms.

What was it that they used to say about the American servicemen that were over here during the war? "Overpayed, oversexed and over here".

I have noticed that too here in Scotland, on here or there.
Actually I am beginning to think it more common in the UK than anywhere else.

Fairly common no matter the site: (Face book runs at 10-20% junko, insta about the same and these are low levels in comparison to most other sites).

You are talking about the non real element that inhabits the internet in a parasitic manner, which should include;
Scammer element
Fake element
Ghost profiles
Duplicate profiles
Cheat profiles ( I have no issue with any attached person as long as their profile makes mention – tis honest)

Well, to tell you the truth; my clan has no cheiftan. I looked it up on the internet and apparently, "we" fought against the Jacobites.

I think that my point was that Americans are all about tracing their roots and coming over here and meeting their cheiftan but none of us that live here and are actually Scottish care about that stuff apart from some people that have a vested interest in the tourist industry.

Of course, I'm not a Highlander and none of that tartan shortbread tin stuff really had anything to do with the history and culture of the Scotland that I come from. Burns, for instance, never wore a kilt and he was a Lowlander but every year on Burns night people dress up in our so-called "national dress" to celebrate how he wrote a poem about a haggis. I didn't really learn anything about Scottish history when I was at school and the truth is that most of it has just been lost and replaced with a romanticised idea of Scotland that was fictionalised by Sir Walter Scot.

Pitlochry is nice though. It was one of the places that we used to go to on our family holidays to the Highlands when I was a child.

So, your ancestors were in cahoots with that German prince who took over the British throne. It figures.

We did learn a bit about the incident with "the young pretender" at primary school actually and the movie of "Kidnapped" with Michael Caine used to always bring a bit of a tear to my eye. The thing is though, Bonnie Prince Charlie was an Italian and a catholic. I'm an Edinburgh man and even though he was a bit of a snob and more known in his day for writing The History Of England than for being a philosopher, I'm kind of proud to be from the city of David Hume. Did you know that he changed his name from Home so that the English could pronounce it? Have you ever been to Edinburgh? The New Town was built during the eighteenth century and it's a fine example of Enlightenment architecture. You cross the George IV bridge and then you're into the Old Town and that's where the medieval slums were. Yeah, I get a lump in my throat when I hear Flower of Scotland and I love the hills and the heather and all of that but the tourist stuff is just there on the surface for tourists and the real history was pretty grim and there's more reality in Trainspotting than anything that Walter Scot ever wrote.