Comments on: Behaviour Patterns of Online Dating Scammers

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:34:28 +0000

Hi all,

Let me know any information if anyone of you has ever talked and contact with Quincy Maynard, 38 years from canada. When i search him on google, he appears as well in the WAYN.COM profile. Im still confused but begin to convinced my self i got this scam and i had helped him out for usd 2700 which he begging me for his business. He owe some money from a chinese private lender in Malaysia and when the times come, he just dont have enough money to pay it back. His email is maynard.quincy@yahoo.com. I made report to Malaysian police and now they are investigating it. If someone ever heard this same case, please let me know so i can add information to the police. Thanks so much

By: SM

SM — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:02:40 +0000

Hi Geegee, Thanks for your comment.Any furthe contacts I now have are re-directed to my alternate ego on a ficticious e-mail site. I give them the run around for a while then block suspected scammers of which there have been quite a few since my unfortnate encounter with a dating scammer.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:15:25 +0000

Hi Frannie

Very simple and quick answer is NO none of them turn out to be real.

Any genuine businessman travelling to a country like Nigeria will be insured up the wazoo, he will have access to his own bank accounts, have no hesitation going to the embassy and will have plenty of business contacts to help him out of a sticky situation and WILL NOT need to ask strangers on the internet to help him out financially.

The story is 100% scammer I’m afraid. To prove it to yourself say you have had a think about it and are prepared to lend him money but you will only send it to the Embassy to be collected …. now watch him try to squirm to get the money sent by Western Union. If he was real he would have no trouble collecting the money from the Embassy.

By: Frannie

Frannie — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:32:15 +0000

Hi everyone, I’ve been emailing and IMing with a guy that I actually contacted on a dating website for about 3 weeks now. I keep going back and forth about whether he could be a scammer or not. Reasons why I think he might be a scam: A few of the patterns have ocurred with him like being of French/English decent, living in US but currently in Lagos, Nigeria for work (construction engineer), his wife died 3 years ago, hotel being robbed and his cash stolen, needs money to pay rest of workers and is now being sued. Needs money and MY help. Reasons why I think he might not be a scammer: I contacted him first. He expressed interest in knowing more about me…asking questions and expressing concern. He has called me several times with no hesitation to do so. He is able to provide me more photos of himself when I ask for them, and the photos are not professional ones. When I told him the first time to stop contacting me because i was beginning to think it was a scam (just thought it strange to ask me for money),he listened and didn’t pursue.
As of now,we are communicating again by my initiation (yes, i want to believe he’s real!. He’s still in Lagos, suppoesedly had court today and once again asked me for money to help him out of this mess. I have told him NO, once and for all and that if I hear back from him with no further mention of money, that will tell me that he’s really interested in pursuing a relationship…haven’t heard anything back yet, but we’ll see. I’d like to know if any of these online dating guys working in nigeria ever turn out NOT to be scammers. Input?

By: Rusty Hinge

Rusty Hinge — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:46:02 +0000

Hi Jenny,

Im sorry you got caught up in the soldiering dating scam. They like to toy with American Woman’s emotions becasue they know they are lonely. Please anyone who is dating a soldier from any dating websites you might want to try the military perspective website. They have photo gallery’s and other pertenent information to use. They even have people you can talk to about your delimma. BEST OF OF LUCK IN YOUR SEARCH.

By: Rusty Hinge

Rusty Hinge — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:30:19 +0000

Hi GeeGee,

Oh wow! I got those letters in the mail. Someone over in africa was passing my name around to have them send me their money. One dude sent 2 800.00 a piece from the post office checks. I took them to my bank and they said “they are fake, and the bank wasn’t going to cash them and be resoponsible.” PLEASE STAY CLEAR OF THESE TYPE OF SCAMMERS. I WISHI YOU THE BEST OF LUCK.!!!!!!!

By: Rusty Hinge

Rusty Hinge — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:22:51 +0000

Hi everyone,

My best advice for online dating is:
1.) Stay away from soldier’s that are on these websites cause 95% are all fake. if still not sure try doing research on goodle. Google their name

2.) If some says”I love You” right from the get go. That’s fake too. These are scammers too.

3.) When you get junk email stating they want you to transfer or get money from them. It too is a scammer. If you take the money 95% of the time you will have to pay it back cause it is not yours.

4.) Here is a name I want every one to stay clear from is name of John Fisher, he goes under many names and is in alot of dating websites. He will try and romance you till your blue in the face. I got suckered too. John Fisher, whatever his age is 38 to 44, he states he lives in Morraco, Russia, his family is in Cuba. He also, has passport from, Lexington, Kentucky but he doen’t stay in the US cause of his traveling job. Just stay clear of this dude. I don’t care if he cries and begs do not help him!!!!

By: benjamin

benjamin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:44:24 +0000

what me most affected to those scammers, i ask iff they can let them see on cam, so that i can really see how much she loves me, beforre i sending them monney, iff they say dont you trust, i love you so much in gods name, whe are ment to be whit eachotter, i trust you, thats what comme out them after you asked to see em on webcam, or its broke i have a old computter webcams dussent run on it, ahum, i dident know that computters from the eighties are still running now, or the programme dussent support webcams, euh what kind of programme you running on, or it have only one usb connexion and they using it for there whirreless connexion, most laptops is whirreless connexion build in, and you can by multiply usb stick boxes, i dont have the monney for that, euh are computters for free, no monney for a webcam, but monney for a computter was no problem than, they wanna do annything for you, but let them see on cam it impossible, giving me a call thats possible, but than i hear the scammers wife i think, so long no cam, no monney, so how badly they want to see you than iff they dont get monney out of you,

By: Jinny

Jinny — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:17:46 +0000

Any one who hears from a Colnel George Lucas serving in Iraq be warned he is a scammer. He is impersonating a General Wesley Clark whose picture can be seen on Flicker or Wikipedia. Wants money for his flight ticket home.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:54:44 +0000

Hi Geegee,

There are helpful people administering the site and they will help you when you register.

Best wishes