I am being catfished right now!

Americans don’t say “Auntie.” We say “Aunt.” Rhymes with “ant.”

How did you two meet? Did he send you a friends request on FB by any chance?

I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, I can only assume maybe it works if you find a lonely woman who also has very poor English and doesn't know Anglo accents, but I'm then not sure how they get money out of anyone because they're going to have a hard time explaining that. 😑

surprisingly it does work. Not read the full thread so it may have been mentioned but there’s a show on YouTube called catfished and American people have handed over hundreds of thousands to these scammers.

You’re so right! There’s more to it than romantic scams!
They also ‘buy’ mobiles on eBay and send some pretty convincing emails out convincing the seller the money is in a holding account and will be paid on as soon as the item is dispatched!…. I had 2 Nigerians ask me to post a mobile out to Nigeria.
They were so convincing, luckily I’ve got a suspicious mind and didn’t send anything!
Sadly when scammers come from certain countries 9 times out 10… Then people tend to stereotype and you can’t really blame them

My DH is Swedish! 😁

Ohhhh I'm loving this thread. I've only had one similar thing .... obviously declared undying love very quickly, he came from California, moved to the UK for work, and was going to make his home here. I don't know how, but he knew I had a lot of pets ... he said that he did too, and he was going to move them all over here. He sent pics of himself with them .... a rather cute, fluffy dog, that was okay. Then him with a herd of deer, he was feeding them by hand - I don't quite know how he was going to fly them over, or where in Nottingham he was going to keep them 🤔. It was the third picture that was the strangest though. He'd got his arm round a boar. A fecking great big boar with tusks. What was more odd was that it quite clearly was just the head!!! It was one of those stuffed mounted heads that can usually be seen in stately homes. It was dead, without a doubt! I told him it was beautiful, and asked if it had been dead long. He absolutely assured me that it was alive, and his pet! I kept the conversation going for a couple of weeks, told him I was a lonely, wealthy lady .... had a chauffeur, staff ... the lot! He asked to marry me, and just needed a little cash injection - which he'd pay back. Also said he'd invest my money and I'd make huge profits .... yeah, right.
Then he dropped me, because I didn't send the money. Ohhhh my little heart was broken, shattered, even! Not!

Have you all watched many of the episodes on the Catfished youtube channel?

Its deliberate for them to be obvious though. They want to be quickly spotted by people they have a very low chance of scamming. Means they don't waste their time and can move on through the numbers to find those who might be vulnerable.

That's why engaging with them and wasting their time like the OP is actually a pretty good thing to do. Whilst she's stringing them along they are not preying on someone who might actually give them cash.

I get that, a polite (initially) email telling me they have recorded me masturbating to porn 🤔. But not to worry, if I send £ 1500 in bitcoins they’ll erase it, gentleman’s honour. When I don’t bite, the insult filled emails start up. I can shrug it off, but what if some shame filled person with MH problems got one of those. It’s horrible.

@Zone2NorthLondon Exactly! I think the stupidity of it and the lack of trying annoys me almost more than the actual fact its a scam 😆

lol,at least make a scam credible and well written. They’re a poor effort

I get two frequently:

1. They've installed a trojan on my computer and can see I'm looking at porn websites and have caught me on camera but if I send them bitcoin they'll make an agreement with me to erase it all- a very polite email telling me not to worry, rest assured he will destroy the original copy if I do this 😆
2. Some guy in China tells me I have inherited millions from a relative in China whom I didnt know I had and if we agree it keep it secret between us and I send him money for legal fees he'll transfer my massive inheritance forth with (I have the most British name ever so not sure why they cant target people who are actually likely to have relatives native to China).
3. The usual ones claiming to be from McAffee, EE, Royal Mail, Fedex etc but sent from email addresses like: [email protected]

The third ones remind me of this:

Tell him your next case after the murder is a very complex scanning case which involved the use of social media, long distance romance promises and a child in boarding school 😉

These are scams , can’t believe it still going , I had this one 10 years ago

Your post made me think of this! 😄

It would be rude not to after tantalising us like that! Let’s see how long it takes him to ask you for money for some “equipment” he “needs for his job” (he’ll pay you back as soon as the mysterious problem with his bank is sorted out, obviously), and then turn nasty when you say you’ll pay the bill directly instead of putting the money in his bank account. I DEMAND that you strIng him along and keep us all updated.

well, of course he’s not. He’s in love with me. —off the check new friends requests on FB-

They get all these messages off the net 😂 I strung one along once but I considered it my duty to stop him doing it to someone else more vulnerable 😂

Why do you want a Swedish oil rigger in a Stetson when you're FB friends with Prince Harry? C'mon, a Duke or something surely, one of the loadsamoney ones (not calling you shallow) 😂

Actually, when you see the ridiculous nonsense we've been subjected to, which is a tiny fraction of what must be going on, it really brings home how prevalent this stuff is.

I'm going to a romance fraud webinar tomorrow called 'Keanu Reeves is not in love with you' which I'm quite looking forward to. (I mainly signed up because I thought it was quite funny to put that in my work diary, tbh.)

Block it and report.
It may seem a bit of fun, but things can quickly turn to your disadvantage.
These scumbags have only one thing of interest and that's getting what they can from the victim, usually money. Empty promises!

Reverse image search him on google.
Deffo a scammer.

@Echobelly you are killing me, I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂

Aww I thought you were serious! I didn’t know you were stringing him along! Lol

Oh give him your best and ask for money to help you arrange a marriage! X