SCAMMER.

Allow me to give you some hints:

because that I am .. since the past one year – grammatically incorrect and many more examples the above drivel.
staffs – uses inappropriate plurals
my company is registered in U.K but I do not have an office address in the U.K or anywhere else – zero understanding of what it takes to register a company in the UK.
I have already paid for my yearly operational tax which is mandatory for every company whether operational or not – Rubbish
Only one bank account but runs his own registered company and works for an employer – doesn’t understand the British banking system.

You get the drift?

My guess is you are being set up for a money transfer. This is where they send you a cheque (check in American) or bankers draft. You then put this into your account, which will soon show as a deposit. You then withdraw the money from your account and send it to him. After a few days/weeks your bank catch up to the fact that is is a fake money order/check/bank draft and they demand the money back from you and inform the police you have been defrauding the bank.

The emails are simply to muddy the water, so he can always say “but Babe I explained it to you in my emails and you still don’t understand”. He then finds a way to send you £50,000 and you get to keep the £10,000 you need and send the other £40,000 to him … hey everyone is happy!!!

If you need any of the above explained in detail please use the Ask a Dating Question link at the top of the blog and drop me an email … I try not to teach them too much through this blog.

“You know this tax issue is complicated, let me try and explain it to you a little… my company is registered in U.K but I do not have an office address in the U.K or anywhere else because that I am still working with Halliburton and having a working address, staffs and company structure will be a direct violation of my employment agreement with Halliburton and that will make me to loss my retirement benefits which now runs into millions of dollars and going by that I will retire in 2013 from Halliburton I just have to hold on for some more time before I come out open with my company… so now I have been living in the U.S since the past one year and have never stepped my foot into London other than last few weeks when I came down for the this contract which means that my company has been completely dormant for a year and that means that I have had zero income and thereby I am not liable to pay for income tax since I have already paid for my yearly operational tax which is mandatory for every company whether operational or not and so after I won the contract the government just charged me for tax evasion for not paying my income tax… this is unusual because no one will pay income tax when the company has had zero income since the past one year due to their dormancy in operation and also going by that I have not dotted the last part of the contract with SHELL yet which was why I was in Oman to cost the project and then give my bill quotation to SHELL logically I should be totally exempted from the tax till I sign the financial part of the contract but my lawyer said that since the law states that for a company that has had a dormant operation within a year to come back to start operation that they will have to pay a sum of £10,000.00 before resuming operation, so my crime was that I was suppose to pay the £10,000.00 dormancy fee before submitted my proposal but you know it is just flimsy since I am still in the process of agitating for the contract and so this is where my argument lies… SHELL cannot continue association with me since I have a case with eth government, and SHELL also will come in court on Friday with me as the third party offender for not doing there background checks well before giving me the contract…and so now all I need from the SHELL lawyers that will come to court on Friday is just for them to say the truth because if they try to exempt themselves totally from me, I may have problems.. the truth being that they checked my tax status and it was updated going by that I have paid for my operational tax but since my companies income for the last year under review was zero that they thought my income tax will start to count as at when I sign the contract with them and that we are still in the preliminary stage of signing the contract at the moment and so that they thought it was not important yet…”

Babe I know it is a little confusing and you know the British laws are different from the American laws, but I believe that it is pretty simple if you will cool down and read my first email and this one carefully since I have tried to explain the situation to you to the best of my knowledge… you know the worst thing abt this situation is that I have only but one bank account and I do not have a bank account in the U.S since my bank in UK the Natwest Bank makes it that I can write a check I withdraw money from any bank in the world within 5 minutes, so going by this very flexible banking service that I have with my bank I saw no need to have any other bank account, so my house in California and everything I have in the world is finances by my bank which is Natwest bank and so at the moment my account and asset is frozen and all which is under the finance of my one bank… I just feel like this biggest fool in the world now by putting all my eggs in one basket”

There is no need to feel naive or stupid, these things are always easy to spot when you are standing on the outside but when it’s you and your keyboard on a lonely night these people feel like the answer to all your prayers. They are good at what they do and better people than us have been conned.

Learn a lesson, if it seems too good to be true … it usually is. You will not make the same mistake again, so it was $260 well spent to learn the lesson.

They use photos from model agency websites, so I’m afraid the money you sent certainly didn’t go to the woman in the picture. Always be sceptical of photos of gorgeous people on dating websites … how many women have you met that look that “fine” and don’t have a string of men chasing them?

Be realistic when you look on dating sites, you know what they say .. if it looks too good to be true then it probably is!!

It is correct Sally!! There is fraud everwhere. You can´t imagine how many email requests i get for electronic tickets or hotel bookings and I know from the first moment they ae fake as they start saying they would like to pay with credit card even without asking for amounts to be paid, etc. I am very used to this kind of fraud and now I now i have lots of experience for dating scammers also. Sometimes it is good to have such experiences at least once, otherwise you will never know that people like this exist. I have always thought that even though I have invested my feelings, if I find out that the person is just trying to get advantage of me in anyway, money, contacts, etc. I am not interested to take the relationship to a second level. And it may also happen in your own country. Actually before having my profile in match.com I had it on another site baboo.com where i was contacted mainly by people form my country, then i got one who looked like a very nice guy, we actually met and started a friendship relationship which was taking a kind of “commertial relationship” then he asked me to borrow money from me to help in for his business as he was having a difficult situation. I am not thinking he wanted to steal my money but i did not like at all his behavior as we only had 2 weeks of knowing each other as friends and planning to start someday a love relationship, so i said to myself…if he is asking me now this kind of favour, what will he ask later when we are a couple?? After this I got the contact from match with collins and you know the story…. so despite these 2 stories, i am still trusting i can find someone different. I think the lesson learned here is that you can not say how much you have or you can not look like a very good businnessman, economic independent, as people may want to take advantage of this I an not rich but i havve a good life which i built myself with hard work and i am not planing to let anybody take advantage of it. I actually feel good alone and I am happy but i would give myself the opportunity to find someone that deserves me but I am not desperate.

I have just posted about the things I found in the “legal contract” so I hope it will help others.

I’m afraid there is fraud in every walk of life, anywhere people can make money there are also scammers, whether that is dating, pensions or even charities. It is sad and of course the internet makes it so much easier for these people but with people like us around hopefully we can educate others on what to look out for.