These are scammers, probably hoping to get personal info they can use and/or money. Nice people don't email strangers they've never met to tell them that they want to have a relationship with them. Only crooks do that. Once they get someone to be their pen pal, and the fool gets attached, then they start saying stuff like "I'm stuck in a place far from home. Please wire me big bucks, so I can come home, or come see you." Or, "I owe some bad people some money, and they will kill me if I don't pay, so wire me big bucks to save me." Or, "I or a relative are deathly ill, but have no money for the doctor. Please wire me big bucks to pay the doctor." Or "I have a chance to invest in this sure thing that is GUARANTEED to make us rich honey. Please wire me big bucks to close the deal." And so on, and so on. They take people for as much as they can get out of them, and leave behind a foolish person who has been hurt both emotionally and financially, but is hopefully a little wiser afterwards. Usually they are from another country, but not always.
Report these frauds to the moderators, and then delete them.
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27 Mar 2012, 3:50 pm
