Cool: Internet dating for boomers; Not cool: Getting scammed

I just want to make a few comments about this blog.
1.Not all the scammers are lousy writers.The bad writers are the small boys who are trying their luck,and they are in it for the small money or valuables.Once they get a mobile phone,or $50 ,they are very happy.
But the real scammers who are really hurting many people in the west don't have lousy writing.They write very good english,as they are either college graduates or undergraduates.They write good grammar and talk with good accents,,which does a lot to confuse the victims of the scams.You can look up a site like www.elovedeceptions.com for more details on the operations of romance scammers.

2.Yes, 23401 is the telephone code and postal code for Lagos.

3.The major cases of romance scams are not as simple as you put it here.There is a lot more to it than meets the eye, or than people readily admit too.
Besides,their methods keep changing in a bid to ensnare more victims.
And if recent reports are to be believed,then these scammers are succeeding still.
I got some useful information from a blog www.alanprince.wordpress.com on this issue.
hope this helps someone,and sets the issues straight.

For anyone interested in the general topic of online dating, there is a new URL that describes a great new safety tool for those who make use (or who are contemplating such) of any of
the online dating sites, of which there must now be thousands available on the Internet. Only a few of the most major such sites offer any type of psychological testing and/or
background informational searches to be accomplished on the users of the sites. Compatibility testing and matching really does not help filter out those who are attempting to make
use of the sites based upon scamming, criminal, or otherwise harmful motivations. Reviews of the only couple sites that offer users some degree of criminal background history
checking and unfortunately these checks have been reviewed as being too limited in scope; generally only limited to the police records in a single State or else useless as the focused
upon individual is making use of an alias or pseudo name in his/her communications with the site.
Just very recently, a new approach has been developed that addresses this very problem. A psychologist who has an extraordinary background in psychological test development, as
well as in security related integrity or honesty testing has developed this new tool. This psychologist has developed a rather short/quick psychological test, based upon well-established
and sound psychological test construction logic, that is designed to assess almost a dozen problem areas that are highly associated with personal integrity/honesty. This 72-item,
multiple-choice test, the Personal Security Standards Psychological Questionnaire (PSSPQ), has recently gone through a rather thorough testing when used to screen or otherwise
evaluate the general integrity of persons who were attempting to contact potential 'dates'; through the services offered by online dating sites. The PSSPQ has recently been made
commercially available to users of online dating sites. An extremely complete (and quite lengthy) description of the PSSPQ when used in the online dating arena for individual
evaluation purposes is available on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/psspqdatingtest.htm . On this PSSPQ website, many helpful links are provided that greatly aid a reader in
understanding and evaluating the PSSPQ, its development, and its developer, as well as the many dangers that face anyone making use of the online dating sites.

ive been scamed for 8000.00 from someone claimg to be german decent and working in lagos claiming to be recieving 70 million for completion of contract. and cant touch minies till he gets back in the states. i know now it was a scam first time i sent monies to george samuels and then to shawn wilson so i dont know if this is the same person or not. i want to believe that it is not a scam but i have not heard from him since i sent the money. so SCAM ARTIST is there.please help me, thanks janelle