Don't be taken in by this....Granny
Jul 24, 2015 14:36:04 #
AT first, the constant attention seemed sweet and very special.
Janet N. Cook, a church secretary in the Tidewater, Va., area, had been a widow for a decade when she joined an Internet dating site and was quickly overcome by a rush of emails, phone calls and plans for a face-to-face visit.
Im not stupid, but I was totally naïve, said Ms. Cook, now 76, who was swept off her feet starting in July 2011 by attention from a man who called himself Kelvin Wells and described himself as a middle-aged German businessman looking for someone confident and outspoken to travel with him to places like Italy, his dream destination.
But very soon he began describing various troubles, including being hospitalized in Ghana, where he had gone on business, and asking Ms. Cook to bail him out again and again. In all, she sent him nearly $300,000, as he apparently followed a well-honed script that online criminals use to bilk members of dating sites out of tens of millions of dollars a year.
Read more.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/your-money/swindlers-target-older-women-on-dating-websites.html?_r=0
Janet N. Cook, a church secretary in the Tidewater, Va., area, had been a widow for a decade when she joined an Internet dating site and was quickly overcome by a rush of emails, phone calls and plans for a face-to-face visit.
Im not stupid, but I was totally naïve, said Ms. Cook, now 76, who was swept off her feet starting in July 2011 by attention from a man who called himself Kelvin Wells and described himself as a middle-aged German businessman looking for someone confident and outspoken to travel with him to places like Italy, his dream destination.
But very soon he began describing various troubles, including being hospitalized in Ghana, where he had gone on business, and asking Ms. Cook to bail him out again and again. In all, she sent him nearly $300,000, as he apparently followed a well-honed script that online criminals use to bilk members of dating sites out of tens of millions of dollars a year.
Read more.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/your-money/swindlers-target-older-women-on-dating-websites.html?_r=0
Jul 24, 2015 16:44:47 #
Jul 25, 2015 08:12:54 #
PoppaGringo wrote:
Perhaps she was just naively stupid.
I'll tell myself that the next time YOU post something.
Jul 25, 2015 13:01:12 #
Jul 25, 2015 15:57:50 #
badbobby wrote:
or just plain stupid
now yer talkin , musta been a LIB DEMOcrapper :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Jul 25, 2015 17:21:00 #
DamnYANKEE wrote:
now yer talkin , musta been a LIB DEMOcrapper :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Quite possible. That is how they think, or don't think as the case may be.
Jul 26, 2015 04:09:36 #
Alicia
Loc: NYC
PoppaGringo wrote:
Perhaps she was just naively stupid.
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I did know a woman who found her "man" through one of these dating sites. She had just been through the loss of her father and was quite depressed. Evidently he responded "correctly" and they ended up marrying. As it were, he ended up "taking care" of her during her depressions and was feeding her 6 Valium per day in order to keep her under [his] control. I wouldn't be surprised if her lovely home and ranch were presently in his name. Their neighbors felt the same about him as I and I wouldn't be too surprised if she were already out of the picture.
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