Comment on Online Dating Scams by Pat

[Tony]

I believe that I was also scammed from the same person as you have written about being in the American Army serving as a Captain James Harris, but I am lucky enough to have a friend who managed to get me to stop sending money to this person. I did lose some money but near enough as the person you have wrote about. I have contacted the police in my area and they have told me to carry on talking to this person but I am finding it very hard as they are still asking for the funds to be sent to them so they can come back to England and be with me. I also have run up a mobile phone bill that I am having to pay off over the next couple of months. I would like everybody that goes on to dating web sites to be made aware of what can happen to you. You are vulnerable, weak and they prey on those features. I am a little wiser from my experience and wish the person who lost all that money all the best take care. from Pat Poor

Comment on Online Dating Scams by Pat

[Georginazn]

That's a sad post. It is directly linked, but how rotten to strike at someone's vulnerabilities. Is there a different genetic make-up to people who live by duping, deceit and attack? What do they live for? If it's just the next buck they're after, can't they put their obviously active minds into legal and decent ways to raise funds. They can hardly claim it's easier this way, and so must enjoy inflicting misery. Is it learnt behaviour or chromosomal?