Very much so. In fact it's usually easy to tell where the scams are from by the type of scam they are, the photos they use and even the wording in the emails. Let's look at a few.
Senegal scammers.
These are almost always about some poor lady stuck in a refugee camp and desperately trying to get her murdered father's hidden fortune out of the country. They'll give you the supposed pastor's number and you'll often see them describe the weather as "a little cold here in Senegal". Profile pictures are often of flowers or scenery.
Malaysian scammers.
These always pretend to be white engineers in the UK, and target Asian ladies (Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia). A white British engineer who later appears in Malaysia is always a Nigerian scam, especially if the person being targeted is from Asia.
Russian scammers.
Russian scammers use a very automated system to scam. Emails are replied to without even being read a lot of the time. Expect questions to not be answered or a short answer slotted into the email, usually in the middle or end. These ones profess love very quickly and then need your assistance in helping to pay for them to come visit you.
Ukrainian scammers.
The photos used by these scammers are always models, and there'll always be a translation agency that needs paying.
Filipino scammers.
Rare in that these ones are real ladies who will appear on webcam. Typically these ones ask for money for school fees, medicine for themselves or a family member or will even to pay to see you. These will refer to you as their boyfriend rather than husband, which is more typical of Nigerian scammers.
Nigerian/Ghanaian scammers.
These will constantly ask you to talk to them on IM, and will try to take all your attention every second you're online. Stories vary, but some common ones are that they're an engineer, building a bridge, a model on an assignment there, a soldier, on an oil rig or currently there collecting some treasure/money left to them by a parent. The money requests could be for anything and everything (and we really do mean anything, from help to get their fortune out of the country to a request for aid to buy tampons and even on one occasion help in bringing their client back from Mars where he's suffering a ruptured uterus after being anal probed by the Martians!), but of course the money requests will come. As a general rule, the moment Africa and more specifically West Africa or Nigeria are mentioned, expect the talk to turn sooner rather than later to that of their needing "a little help".
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