International Relationship Scams
Friday, March 9th, 2007In the last months, I have had the unfortunate task of informing a number of clients, and even a good friend, that they were caught up in another relationship scam. Sad to say, we so want to be loved - and to love - that we can be trapped by our desire, our willingness to trust, afraid to listen to our inner warning bells.
These web-based relationship scams have taken so many women for so much money that I felt it was important to publish some insights about how these scams operate. Although the Internet makes it a lot easier for these vampires to prey on folks, it also provides a great deal of information that can help you avoid being taken for both your affections and your money.
Janet requested a reading about a man she was getting involved in, and while waiting for the reading, wisely trusted her instincts and took the time to do a a little research, as I recommend… It diidn’ take long for her to recognize the truth. Her story is so typical, that with her permission, I am reprinting our dialogue here:
Unfortunately, my suspicions about Marcus turned out to be correct. He was too good to be true. We met on-line, and the photos he claimed were him turned out to be stolen photos of a model based out of Hawaii (should have known he was way too cute to be from around here). In truth, Marcus (I have no idea of their real identity) was merely a scam artist whose goal was to eventually draw money from me. I had a sense that something wasn’t right, and did some research about on-line scams and discovered the truth.