Published on 12, July, 2020
So, this woman, from the West Midlands, claims she is facing bankruptcy after losing £113,000 to a scammer she met on a dating site. The man, who claimed he lived nearby, told her he had gone abroad for an engineering contract in Ukraine and then convinced her he needed money.
Yeah - scammers use a lot of psychology - and even the "Nigerian" scam still works - people believe what they want to believe..
They're primed to see it as "romantic" - some people will convince themselves that it's real because... Disney... something... something. It's a psychology thing from what I can work out. Like they convince themselves that their real lives are like a story so they're easy to take in by someone who pretends it is a story and... happily ever after... presumably...
I'm not so sure about that. I can understand online business scams. But romantic dating sites? I don't think smart people join dating sites very often, and if they do, they certainly don't send large sums of money to people they've never met. I can only assume that she was so incredibly lonely and desperate for affection that she lost all common sense. If it's true, it's a terrible shame, but it's her own fault.
There's a lot of lonely people out there - but when big numbers are mentioned, there's always a secondary scam.
I find it staggering that so many people join these dating sites and then claim to fall in love with 'pictures' of people and then send money to them...
Haha! It does seem strange that these people can be so incredibly gullible. How could you give money to someone on a dating site you've never met? Unless you were so lonely that you'd lost all self-respect and/or you'd had a lobotomy.
I'm betting it's fake - she's claiming a big number to make the Betabux offer a couple of thousand - if they might get something in return......
Rule 1 of the internet:
Do NOT give money to someone you do not know
I feel for her, even the smartest people can still be scammed :( I hate that people do this to anyone, let alone someone lonely and vulnerable.
She's looking for a gullible Betabux..