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AIBU to ask what my friend should reply to this?

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nornironlady · 11/01/2018 11:16

I really am posting for a friend. She has met a guy on a well known online dating app. A real hunk, almost too good to be true. He lives in another country. I'm going to copy some of his first email as she is at a loss as to what to say in response. I thought if any Mumsnetter's were around this morning you might want to help. Here goes, it sounds like a CV.....
When i am in a Relationship, I do not go to sleep angry it doesn't matter who is right, all that matters is that we go to sleep with love in our hearts. I was taught to respect all young or old. I don't gossip about people it is not my place to judge them. I believe that what a person gives comes back tenfold to them. I am very confident at where I am in my life. I am open, kind, giving, responsible, happy, cheerful person. I don't like when someone plays head games and wastes my time. I do not have enough time left on this earth to waste on disrespectful people. I have been hurt too many times. I am looking for a serious relationship not,interested in a casual one. I want to find that special woman and be her husband and focus on giving her all my love and focus on giving her the love she deserves. I hope, someday we'll meet and fall in love. I just want to meet that special someone that I can be happy and in love with unconditionally, someone that will app and can't wait to come home to me.
Someone that I can love to the fullest for the rest of our lifes together. someone that is my Best Friend and my Lover. True love is finding your missing half. to find true love is worth the wait. I was taught the best things in life are worth waiting for, I don't seek outside comfort. I believe if there is a problem then it is best to talk it thru. I also have certain ways to be intimate and once we learn what pleases one another I am content with that. I need no more than what pleases us both. When I am with someone I have eyes for no other. I like things to be decided ahead of time and I don't like when people cannot make up their mind. I am somewhat of a perfectionist. I was taught never accept something half done or done the fastest way. I was taught to do it right and to do my best the first time. ...
I am very sensitive, caring, sincere person. I believe you are also a very honest, caring, loving, giving person, someone that I have the privilege to meet someday. I know what I want from life and I am very confident with myself and where I am in life, I believe we have a lot in common. We both want a lot of the same things from life and love. I look forward to getting to know you better. i hope this tell you more about me and what i am looking for, i am looking forward to hear from you,
What would you say to this?

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ohfortuna · 11/01/2018 11:44

I suppose if she's bored she could wind him up and try reverse scamming for a bit of a laugh?
Then again it could get ugly he might turn nasty
after all he is by definition some sort of love rat isn't he

MillennialFalcon · 11/01/2018 11:44

What he said isn't really sharing, he didn't ask anything about her, he could have copied and pasted that to a lot of women. All that stuff about true love doesn't exactly sound sincere when he doesn't even know her, it just sounds like he swallowed and regurgitated a greetings card. It seems weird and I would avoid. If she doesn't want to just block him she could simply say that she is not interested in a long-distance relationship to let him down gently.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 11/01/2018 11:44

When I say another country I mean England, we are in NI!! He is much closer to you lot!

What makes you think that? Sounds more like Lagos to me ... Wink

MadMags · 11/01/2018 11:44

Just because he's in England, doesn't mean he's not a scam artist. I'd bet money that that's not even his picture.

At best he's a fucking nutter, and should be avoided at all costs.

HotelEuphoria · 11/01/2018 11:45

Figrollsnotfatrolls

Absolutely spot on.

nornironlady · 11/01/2018 11:45

Shox....... no not at all, we've been wasting time in a really boring training course this week.

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ohfortuna · 11/01/2018 11:46

English is definitely not the first language of the author!

joystir59 · 11/01/2018 11:46

Yuck. Just that really.

GlitterUnicornsAndAllThatJazz · 11/01/2018 11:46

BTW I hate to break it to you but NI is not a separate country. Its a province.

100YearsOfVote · 11/01/2018 11:46

after he has shared so generously
Grin
Confused
he's a scammer!

OlennasWimple · 11/01/2018 11:46

TheDailyMail might have it. Is this a new trend we might see? Worried Remainers looking for an Irish bride for passport reasons??

DancesWithOtters · 11/01/2018 11:46

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ohfortuna · 11/01/2018 11:47

It's been written in one language and then google translated into English

Puzzledandpissedoff · 11/01/2018 11:47

Great link here if she wants some fun with him (and not in the usual sense)

forum.419eater.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=44

morningconstitutional2017 · 11/01/2018 11:47

I'm sorry, I really couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing. I've read too many newspaper articles about fraudsters who get lonely people all cosy and caring and then start asking for money.

This is most definitely too good to be true. It was probably composed in an office with lots of criminal types who are sucking bank accounts of vulnerable people dry. Block, block, block.

TammySwansonTwo · 11/01/2018 11:47

Check out the 419 Eater website for some ideas (and to confirm that this is exactly the same drivel sent by every other scammer) and then have some fun

nornironlady · 11/01/2018 11:48

Thanks for the replies folks, I had a great laugh at some of your responses.

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TammySwansonTwo · 11/01/2018 11:48

Great minds. puzzled - sorry!

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 11/01/2018 11:48

She has been thinking the same as most of your responses in all honesty but feels she should reply with something after he has shared so generously..........
We've spent a few days discussing it and coming to no conclusion so I turned to you guys.

You are both incredibly dim and should stay away from dating sites. That is a copy and paste email. He didn’t put any effort or time into it. Seriously. She doesn’t need to respond anything at all. She needs to get her wits about her if she intends to stick with online dating.

Ellendegeneres · 11/01/2018 11:48

He’s copied and pasted the same crap he sends to hundreds of other victims he’s trying to fool.
I’ve been on the receiving end of one of these- he then changed profile to another ethnicity and age bracket and tried the same thing again with me and a friend. It was hilarious, every so often it’d pop up again. Specially when one of us had a new cover pic- so they’d send so many they forget who has been tried and send it out trying various profiles to fit in with other people’s criteria.

OlennasWimple · 11/01/2018 11:49

Glitter - NI isn't a province, Ulster is a province

Puzzledandpissedoff · 11/01/2018 11:49

TammySwansonTwo Grin Grin

WingsOnMyBoots · 11/01/2018 11:50

I would avoid at all costs. Red flags are flapping madly and alarm bells are deafening me. Scammer! I would not reply at all.

Crunchymum · 11/01/2018 11:50

I'd send it back to him, with corrected spelling and grammar.

Snowysky20009 · 11/01/2018 11:51

Justanothernameonthepage has the right reply