Watched another Dr. Phil show today that had two women who were scammed by men from other countries on dating sites like Match.com. One was a 63 year old woman, who was completely in love with her internet boyfriend, although she had never met him.
Stories from him encouraged her to send over $60,000 in cash to him in Ghanda. He alleged he was in the service, and had excuse after excuse as to why he needed her to send him money. The photos he was using as his identity were stolen from a man who had died years ago.
In the show, Dr. Phil showed her that this person was on over 20 other websites, playing on lonely senior women's emotions, and scamming them out of money. Turned out this was a 16 year old kid. There are places in the world that have internet 'cafes', where men and children sit at computers, and do this to gain money.
I can't blame those in other countries to do things they learn to survive and get money for themselves. It's unfortunate that they have to stoop to doing underhanded things like this. The more I hear of stories like this, I can blame the victims more.
How can these American women trust someone so completely that they've only met online? Why are they so clueless that the will send thousands of dollars, this case she sent the cash in cereal boxes, to a foreign country, to someone she didn't know? Sending that cash could have put her in jail and fined heavily for breaking the law. I'm not even trusting enough to use these dating sites....definitely would be a red flag if the guy I was corresponding with started asking for money.
http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/2057
Stories from him encouraged her to send over $60,000 in cash to him in Ghanda. He alleged he was in the service, and had excuse after excuse as to why he needed her to send him money. The photos he was using as his identity were stolen from a man who had died years ago.
In the show, Dr. Phil showed her that this person was on over 20 other websites, playing on lonely senior women's emotions, and scamming them out of money. Turned out this was a 16 year old kid. There are places in the world that have internet 'cafes', where men and children sit at computers, and do this to gain money.
I can't blame those in other countries to do things they learn to survive and get money for themselves. It's unfortunate that they have to stoop to doing underhanded things like this. The more I hear of stories like this, I can blame the victims more.
How can these American women trust someone so completely that they've only met online? Why are they so clueless that the will send thousands of dollars, this case she sent the cash in cereal boxes, to a foreign country, to someone she didn't know? Sending that cash could have put her in jail and fined heavily for breaking the law. I'm not even trusting enough to use these dating sites....definitely would be a red flag if the guy I was corresponding with started asking for money.
http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/2057
