Could it be a longer term plan maybe?
Marriage, followed by an American passport and then divorce, and the sharing of your worldly goods.
What’s with references to “The Bat”? I googled it and it seems to be a mail client. Does it have special anonymising features or something?
I’m not sure it’s an attempt to get information via e-mail.
I got one of these about 3-4 years ago. (Actually, I’ve gotten tons, but now I just delete them.) With the first one, though, I was reeled in a bit at first. “She” refused to go to e-mail and insisted on IMing.
Like TGWATY, I wanted to see how far I could take it without losing any money. In this case, she claimed to be from my city (complete coincidence, I’m fairly sure), but was in Africa to visit her poor sick granny. We would finally be together and happy and in LUV once she got enough money together for a plane ticket.
I asked her if she wanted me to give her money for it. She actually refused, so that wasn’t part of her game. She even acted all butthurt that I’d accuse her of that.
No, she had the money. Or her uncle did. And her other uncle could wire it to her. But uncle #1 couldn’t get the money to uncle #2 and I would I be a dear and walk the $10,000 in cash from one uncle to the other?
That’s when it got too weird and I stopped all communications with her. I didn’t want to risk finding out more.
But I do wonder what would have happened if her profile didn’t put her in my city. I’ve gotten dozens more e-mails like that, from “girls” claiming to be from California, Alabama, Africa, and China. But never from a couple of miles away.
I came to recomend TinEye. Would love to hear the result.
another useful site: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
Send them the full header info of the e-mail address and see what they say. (No answer doesn’t mean you’re in the clear, just that they are very busy people.)
Found via a google search…
There’s a reasonable chance that the IP address might locate him to, say a particular metropolitan area. Unlikely to narrow it down much beyond that.
But so what if they did? I mean, OK, this guy in Russia now has the name and address of someone in the U.S. Well, for the cost of shipping a phone book there, he can have thousands of names and addresses. What could they do with TGWATY’s address that they couldn’t do with Joe Random Phonebook’s address?
If you are communicating with someone, or making plans to scam the scammers, they may pick up on information about when you are away, and steal everything you have. Then if caught, and they claim you gave them everything valuable you owned as a gift, they have the history of emails to show your involvement. Thats why you should stay away from people like this.
But TGWATY won’t fall for that, he’s got it going on. He has no need to fear con artists. Really TG, nobody could pull one over on you.
http://www.romancescam.com/album/
Wait. Am I the only one here that clicked on “Tired of scammers?”
The internet never fails to amuse.
Nitpick. You’re generally correct, but your IP address contains a lot of closely-identifying information. I am constantly surprised that they can tell not only how some local woman lost weight–no matter that it’s some exotic berry–but how much she lost. Or that they know that local moms are earning big bucks on the Internet. Simply amazing. Just a bit of triangulation between people and I’m sure they know who I am. Actually, I bet they’re using some of my recent successes–one’s I haven’t even share on line–to market services to my neighbors.
That ad, with that same picture, appears with a different “amazing” amount every time I see it. Wonder who her accountant is, Mr. Random Figure?
That’s amazing.
LOL