Hey people!! how y'all doing!
Hope you managed to give your hearts to someone who deserves it, and kept your money intact in the process?
I am excited today 'cos i just learned something i am just dying to share with you! you want to know what don't you?
What i am gonna be sharing with you a scammers trick known as 'THE PACKAGE.' It was revealed to me by a friend of a friend. *wink*
I am gonna start from the beginning, you ready to delve into the underground world of con men, then follow me....
PROFILING
The first process is to create a profile in one of the many popular social network or dating sites. (match.com is now a favorite hunting ground).
They search the internet and steal pictures of good looking guys and women, usually from American and European origins. Then they make up this About Me write up that reads like a breeze. The write-ups are very similar, you can check through my subsequent posts for a sample scammers About Me. It usually reads on how much they are looking for true love and blah blah blah! True love my a**!!
The next thing they do is to select candidates that they send a message and ask them to add them on yahoo chat usually. Then the real work begins.
THE FIRST BAIT
Once they manage to get you to chat,they bait you in slowly. They fill you with stories of lost loves and make you feel like they are giving love a chance in falling madly in love with you and they got very high sounding jobs, their favorite is a job in the oil industry, some are pilots,bankers, etc. The trick is to let you think the person you chatting with is financially stable and is just out looking for true love, which he has found in you of course!
Once he has gotten you to trust and even fall in love, then its time to 'surprise you' with a 'gift package'. Some victims are chosen for the closeness of their birthdays(The catch is to look for a reason to send a gift to you).
THE SECOND BAIT
A gift package is sent to you for any excuse the scammer manufactures. You are excited and can't wait to recieve your lover's gift. Then one morning (not necessarily in the morning!) you get a call from a courier service personnel informing you that there has been a problem with a package that has been sent to you, this gets interesting this is where most people are hooked.
The 'courier' people tell you that inside the package sent to you was found a large sum of money, for example they may tell you that inside the package was a sum of 15ooo pounds. You are taken by this omg! all that money. The courier tell you it is illegal to send money through this means and so your package will be sent to the authorities if you do not take 'action'. They also threaten that the sender might be in trouble for trying to launder money and all the criminal bull they can trudge up.
In reality this courier service is either a phishing site mirroring a legitimate courier website or a bogus website that has been set up to scam unsuspecting people. The websites are so professional looking that if you log in your details you will be told that you do indeed have a package coming to you and the travel routes, it is so real! many of this scam websites have been shut down but many are being created.
You get in touch with your lover, who has anxiously been waiting for your call hoping that you took the bait. He pretends to be anxious and tells you he had a good intention and that he just wanted to give a pleasant surprise, you will get a surprise but i don't think it would be pleasant though.
THE KILL
He now ask you to get intouch with them, he tells you he can't do it since he is offshore or too busy with work to, and ask them if the 'problem' can be resolved. you get in touch with the 'courier service' and they tell you that some money will have to paid so that they can convert the status of the parcel. You inform your 'lover' who now asks you to please do him the favour of paying the charges, and gives you an excuse of being away at work (maybe offshore), you think what the heck you are going to be 15oooo pounds richer so you pay the charges the courier asks you to pay. They ask you to pay the money through the Western Union Money Transfer.
Thinking that you have settled the 'problem' you wait to recieve your package.Wrong!! cos no package is coming!!! the 'courier company' is a fake and will continue to call you again and again claiming all sorts of problems that will demand you continue to pay money until you wise up. The country the package is stuck in, is the country where the scammers operate from. Wait a minute YOU DON'T THINK BECAUSE YOU CAN REACH HIM WITH A UK NUMBER HE ACTUALLY LIVES IN THE UK, HAVE YOU HEARD OF INTERNATIONAL CALL DIVERTING! well thats a topic for another day.
REALITY CHECK
At the end you don't get any package, you don't get the love you thought you had and you lose lose your money in the process.
Does this scenerio sound familiar to you? Can you share your experience with us on this blog?? Have you noticed a similar approah with the person you have ben 'seeing' online? Do place a comment you might be helping.
How well do you think you know the person you have been seeing online. Check out http://www.romancescams.org/ take the test there and see, you should really check it out!
till we se again give your hearts but keep your money. cheers!!!
Hope you managed to give your hearts to someone who deserves it, and kept your money intact in the process?
I am excited today 'cos i just learned something i am just dying to share with you! you want to know what don't you?
What i am gonna be sharing with you a scammers trick known as 'THE PACKAGE.' It was revealed to me by a friend of a friend. *wink*
I am gonna start from the beginning, you ready to delve into the underground world of con men, then follow me....
PROFILING
The first process is to create a profile in one of the many popular social network or dating sites. (match.com is now a favorite hunting ground).
They search the internet and steal pictures of good looking guys and women, usually from American and European origins. Then they make up this About Me write up that reads like a breeze. The write-ups are very similar, you can check through my subsequent posts for a sample scammers About Me. It usually reads on how much they are looking for true love and blah blah blah! True love my a**!!
The next thing they do is to select candidates that they send a message and ask them to add them on yahoo chat usually. Then the real work begins.
THE FIRST BAIT
Once they manage to get you to chat,they bait you in slowly. They fill you with stories of lost loves and make you feel like they are giving love a chance in falling madly in love with you and they got very high sounding jobs, their favorite is a job in the oil industry, some are pilots,bankers, etc. The trick is to let you think the person you chatting with is financially stable and is just out looking for true love, which he has found in you of course!
Once he has gotten you to trust and even fall in love, then its time to 'surprise you' with a 'gift package'. Some victims are chosen for the closeness of their birthdays(The catch is to look for a reason to send a gift to you).
THE SECOND BAIT
A gift package is sent to you for any excuse the scammer manufactures. You are excited and can't wait to recieve your lover's gift. Then one morning (not necessarily in the morning!) you get a call from a courier service personnel informing you that there has been a problem with a package that has been sent to you, this gets interesting this is where most people are hooked.
The 'courier' people tell you that inside the package sent to you was found a large sum of money, for example they may tell you that inside the package was a sum of 15ooo pounds. You are taken by this omg! all that money. The courier tell you it is illegal to send money through this means and so your package will be sent to the authorities if you do not take 'action'. They also threaten that the sender might be in trouble for trying to launder money and all the criminal bull they can trudge up.
In reality this courier service is either a phishing site mirroring a legitimate courier website or a bogus website that has been set up to scam unsuspecting people. The websites are so professional looking that if you log in your details you will be told that you do indeed have a package coming to you and the travel routes, it is so real! many of this scam websites have been shut down but many are being created.
You get in touch with your lover, who has anxiously been waiting for your call hoping that you took the bait. He pretends to be anxious and tells you he had a good intention and that he just wanted to give a pleasant surprise, you will get a surprise but i don't think it would be pleasant though.
THE KILL
He now ask you to get intouch with them, he tells you he can't do it since he is offshore or too busy with work to, and ask them if the 'problem' can be resolved. you get in touch with the 'courier service' and they tell you that some money will have to paid so that they can convert the status of the parcel. You inform your 'lover' who now asks you to please do him the favour of paying the charges, and gives you an excuse of being away at work (maybe offshore), you think what the heck you are going to be 15oooo pounds richer so you pay the charges the courier asks you to pay. They ask you to pay the money through the Western Union Money Transfer.
Thinking that you have settled the 'problem' you wait to recieve your package.Wrong!! cos no package is coming!!! the 'courier company' is a fake and will continue to call you again and again claiming all sorts of problems that will demand you continue to pay money until you wise up. The country the package is stuck in, is the country where the scammers operate from. Wait a minute YOU DON'T THINK BECAUSE YOU CAN REACH HIM WITH A UK NUMBER HE ACTUALLY LIVES IN THE UK, HAVE YOU HEARD OF INTERNATIONAL CALL DIVERTING! well thats a topic for another day.
REALITY CHECK
At the end you don't get any package, you don't get the love you thought you had and you lose lose your money in the process.
Does this scenerio sound familiar to you? Can you share your experience with us on this blog?? Have you noticed a similar approah with the person you have ben 'seeing' online? Do place a comment you might be helping.
How well do you think you know the person you have been seeing online. Check out http://www.romancescams.org/ take the test there and see, you should really check it out!
till we se again give your hearts but keep your money. cheers!!!
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