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Originally Posted by Ann-Angelcom
In the last 4 months we have been getting bombarded with emails and facebook notes from people being contacted by people pretending to be Anna, using her pics and even some recorded cam shows to lure people into sending them money! And people actually fall for this! We had a guy write who said he sent the "girl" 4,000 so she can get her passport as she promised to go marry him! He said they spoke for a few months on skype and he saw her on video (they were using prerecorded feeds)
We had another story about someone pretending to be Anna claiming she was injured and is in a hospital in Ghana and she needs money!
Another saying she needs money for food!
Wtf is going on here and does this happen to you guys at all?
My questions are one, how can people actually fall for this?
And two, how the hell do you stop this one?
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Unfortunately there are lots of people out there who are so lonely that they will drop everything because a pretty girl pays attention to them, even if that pretty girl isn't real.
A friend of mine who is very socially awkward, late 40's, lives alone etc, "met" a "girl" online, and has been sending her money for years. She's never met him and never even talked to him by phone.
I've tried to tell him he's being scammed but he won't hear it. "She keeps losing her passport". "Her parents won't let her love a Canadian". "She's can't pay her phone bill". "Her father abuses her". It just goes on and on.