Everyone hates being scammed. I’m pretty sure the girl ‘Olga’ from Russia was a scammer. In fact, I’d be willing to bet my 1991 Ed Sprauge Rookie Card that she was (Yea I know, it’s not worth much). I got curious when I started asking her questions like ‘So what do you like to do?’, ‘What part of the city are you from?’ and ‘What’s your favorite food?’, and received responses that were clearly cut and paste, with maybe a word or so changed to seem it fit a bit more naturally.
Here’s an excerpt from the email she sent to me, after I sent her a pretty lame message of ‘So what part of the city are you from? What are your interests?’
Excerpt from Olga’s last email:
“Hi my dear love!!!!!!!!!!!! I must say that I am in Russia. I make mistake saying I am from your country! I wish to go there! It is my dream!! Today I ran in Internet – cafe what to check up a mail in the box. I very much was delighted having received your letter. I with impatience wait for your letters and when they come I I jump with happiness and it is the truth. I send to you the new photo and I think that you will be glad to this. I am very glad, that we find out each other better. It seems to me, at us much in common. I am glad, that have met you. You the kind and fair person.And kindness and honesty it is very important in attitudes with people, I very much appreciate it. I already wrote to you, that I want to build strong and loving family. And mutual respect, honesty and love really important for family happiness, I so think. Today I have told to mum about you. We talked about it much. I dream to go to meet you with all love and devotion!!!! But – it is true – we do not have much money…”
I won’t even start picking apart that email, as you can probably see there is a whole lot of BS, and not a lot of ‘natural response’. I especially love the ‘No money part’. I can already see where this is going. So I quickly responded with a final email of ‘Nice Knowing you, not interested in cross-continent-relationships, don’t let the door hit you on the way out of the cafe’.
It goes without saying, never give any money to someone you want to date, and be especially weary of people from other countries than your own that want your money.
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