Posted: 8/5/2010 6:11:55 AM EDT
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Greetings,
This morning I got an email from an ex-girlfriend. The body of the message is this: _________________________________________________________________ I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, I came down here to United Kingdom for a short vacation unfortunately i was mugged at the park of the hotel where i stayed,all cash,credit card and cell phone were stolen off me but luckily for me i still have my passports with me. I've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and my return flight leaves in few hours from now but am having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let me leave until i settle the bills. I'm freaked out at the moment. _________________________________________________________________ OK, smells of a scam. The trouble is this woman was constantly getting into hot water when we were together. Now, the penalty phase: What to do? I figure the safest thing to do is to call her parents. Hell, my ex-girlfriend is married with kids for crying out loud. So am I, incidentally. I do call her parents and they assure me her email account was hacked and it is all a scam. Her mother then grills me for details about my life. No big deal, I guess. Intensity level was a bit shy of waterboarding. I can only imagine the reception my wife would give me if she saw a mysterious credit card charge.....on behalf of an ex-girlfriend....and it was all a scam. 
At least I did one thing right. Years ago I got an email from this same ex-girlfriend. We shared photos of our kids. How was that right? I told my wife about the whole thing. I will tell her about this episode too, but I am going to pay in some way. It is a circle of life thing. FUCKING SCAMMERS! |
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I came down here to United Kingdom i still have my passports with me. If you can read stuff like that and think your ex sent it then you need to start dating classier women  Ironically the woman in question is an engineer. Mad spellin and grammah skillz! |
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I came down here to United Kingdom i still have my passports with me. If you can read stuff like that and think your ex sent it then you need to start dating classier women Ironically the woman in question is an engineer. Mad spellin and grammah skillz! It's a hard call because you never know......I don't know all the facts and it's a hard one to call but in the end you have to make the call, good luck. |
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This very scam is in this months Reader's Digest. Someone has taken info from a social network site about you. If you think it's legit ask her something only she would know and was never posted online. She won't answer, it's not her. This. Enough of most people's personal info is posted on Facebook/Twitter/blogs/etc. that scammers can impersonate someone you know and answer enough personal questions to be convincing. |