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Cathy Shares How a Man Scammed Her Out of $1500

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From Cathy

What dating service or website did you meet at?

Match.com

In what month and year did the dating scam take place?

May 2010

How much money (if any) were you scammed out of?

1500

What details did the internet dating scammer share?

That he was stuck in london and couldn't get home cuz he needed his money from work and could get it when he came home to the states to get a loan from the bank and that he had a daughter and he needed to get her home because he needed to take her to the Dr's and she needed heart surgery, but all of a sudden she had died because he was waiting for me to get the money to send to him and made me feel guilty for not sending it soon enough. his e-mail is r.warner49@yahoo.com

What did the internet dating scammer do?

Told me he need the money to get home and for me to get a loan for it and he would pay me back when he got the loan from the states and that his daughter was sick and just a couple of weeks ago she just died. He contacted me on the internet he said he got my contact information from match.com but that was after I asked him. have not reported yet. just learned it was a scam after I read someone else's report on him

Advice

  • Please don't e-mail him because you will be scammed also and now his on Avatir playing people on there

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