hi
not sure if its advise i am asking for or issuing a warning, probably both. i have signed onto a popular dating site recently, with the view of finding a new man in my life, i am in my fifties and want someone to share everything with, feel needed and loved. anyway i started messaging this nice man, we spoke of many things and seemed to have a lot in common. after a while we swapped numbers and started to text each other every day, getting to know each other more, saying about our days, wishing each other a good morning and good evening , this went on for a couple more weeks. i felt like i knew him and was ready to meet him as i felt i had enough information to feel comfortable with this and to see how we got on face to face. we started talking of having a date, saying how we felt we would really get on, we were looking forward to it.
before our date i received a message from him to say that some stuff had gone wrong in work and he needed me to help. i wondered what i could do, he said go to the shops and buy a amazon gift card for £600 and take a picture of both sides and send it to him!!!!!!!
obviously i did not or reply to his messages again. he has gone from the site. but presumably gone on again as another complete stranger so no one will know who he is. in the very least it is very frustrating to think you have started to meet someone and spend weeks talking to them only to find not only do they not exist but they are a criminal!!
ladies be warned