Thanks for your comment and I understand your feelings about the photo used. The photo actually comes from Reuters and was intended for public consumption in news articles.

My hope is that it will warn potential victims not to believe that they are speaking to a soldier simply because they receive a photo of one and soldiers will begin to understand they need to protect their online images from potential misuse.

No he is not in KY or the army, he is in Benin, Nigeria.

Someone has been trying to leave comments using the name Sally (pretending to be you) and asking a certain someone to contact them on a yahoo address …. I wasn’t born yesterday so have deleted them.

I have removed the name you left in your comment because I think I am starting to understand what is happening here and shall be emailing you privately about it.

Now with that being said I have had many MANY Nigerian scammers try to come to me however I call them out quickly I am very well versed on 419 scams courtesy of a good honest friend of mine.And I guess it also doesn’t help a scammer to try to approach me with my very strong personality.AS A RULE NEVER SEND MONEY TO ANYONE YOU DO NOT KNOW EVER,and almost all of the Nigerian scammers lack intelligence they start sentences with words like Am Godfearing Person or I will like to know you or it is a dead giveaway if they ask for your yahoo im id right away or they Love you after one chat many Nigerian scammers work in teams and they will lie about being in the US and they will use others pictures if you recieve any email address always do a reverse search or look up their ISP I Hope this helps if not feel free to email me.

You are quite welcome. The anger and threats are typical tactics, if you question their honesty they immediately explode and I mean over the top explode … 9 times out of ten the victims then try to calm them down and bingo they’ve got you hooked again.

Don’t fall for it ladies, if they get angry over something silly then let them and just walk away. For a start if someone is going to get that angry over the internet what would they be like in real life?

Thank YOU Sally! You busted Sgt Willy Roys of the US Army. He was contacting me along with several other women saying that we were denting his name. He threatened to have whoever speaks of him arrested for ruining his reputation because he could lose his job in the army. Um, he is the one trying to con women and lying about where he is and that he is a soldier. All we are doing is learning how not to be hurt and used by these scams. You know it’s pathetic when a scammer scams so many people that they start looking up sites about scams to see if people are talking about them. Well yes, we are Sgt Willy Roys. Your site is a great resource Sally.

Take it for what it is. Sally’s great post simply suggest that people who are not naturally chatty might like to have some conversation provoking questions in their arsenal.

It should go without saying, you don’t bother asking millionars what they would do with a lottery win! (or maybe you would if you wanted to know how philanthropic they are) etc.

Keep it light, have fun and a few conversation provoking questions can be useful – unless you British it’s easy for us Brits we can talk about the weather for weeks!
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