Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

I am asking this for a friend. She posted herself on myspace and within 4 days got like 5 guys writing to her. They are from all over the country, are all successful business people (one was an architect and another a civil engineer). Two of them said that they were single dads, that the mother of their child had died. The strange part was that all of these guys have seemed to fall instantly in love with my friend just by looking at her myspace page? Also, all of them gave her their IM names and wanted to chat with her immediately. One guy she chatted with for an hour one night and he was telling her after an hour that he was in love with her. She and I are both pretty sure it's a hoax, we just can't figure out what the hoax is. Any ideas?

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

Jenni ...

Love scammers are very common. Most of them will act something like this:

*They get your email by joining dating sites , singles groups, or social sites such as Myspace and write to you pretending to be the kind of person you are looking for.

*The pictures they send and the ones in their profile are always good-looking, and are usually taken from modeling sites on the

Internet.

*They may claim to be working abroad, often in Nigeria

*Make no mistake, a love scammer will usually have several victims going at once, both male and female, and may be "engaged" to more than 10 victims at a time. They think of you as a "job", not a person.

*These scammers are willing to spend months talking and writing every day to their victims before asking for money. The relationships they have with their victims often start fast and are very intense.

*The scammer may try to make the victim feel like they are joining a new family, and may introduce other scammers as their mother, father, sister, etc. This is to make the victim feel a responsibility toward their "new family".

*The bottom line is that they want you to care for them so that you will send them your money.

When they finally ask for money, it is usually for one of these reasons:

*They need to pay for a visa, plane tickets, marriage license etc to

come be with you.

*A close relative suddenly becomes very ill and needs money for medicine

and doctors.

*They are rich, but they can't get their money right now and need your

help

*They are somehow stuck without funds in a foreign country (usually somewhere in Africa or Europe) and need you to wire funds so they can get home.

*They need you to cash a check or checks and send them cash via Western Union. The check or money order they will send you is fake, even if your bank cashes the check or tells you that it "cleared"!!!! The bank will find out in a few days or weeks that the check is fake, and will make you pay all of the money back, even the money you sent to the scammer.

The bank might even have you arrested for cashing a bad check.

*They need you to receive packages that cannot be sent directly to them, and send them on. The packages will contain goods paid for with stolen credit card numbers, and the person the police will come after for theft is you!

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

Is she nude ?

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

it could be scams. If the yare asking her to transfer money for them or keep money in ehr account and send out things to their clients don't have anything to do with them. It does depend on how her profile is too, if she is attractive or if her pictures are revealing she may be getting a lot of people who will sweet talk her just for that reason but there are a lot of scam people out there to watch out for too.Let her know not to take part in any money transfers or any other sort of business propositions from these people if they offer. They could be criminals trying to make her look like the guilty one and get away with whatever they are doing.

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

I have never heard of that scam but it does sound like a hoax. There are many fake profiles in MySpace.

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

Yeah, I'd say they're just bored teenagers with fake profiles looking to see if they can score.

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

Yeah they chat you up... (oh and they LOVE single moms) they talk to you for awhile and then.... they ask you a favor (usually involving transferring money) that's when you block 'em.

Sad thing is that some people are just lonely enough to get sucked in.

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

Hi Jenni,

Don't fall for these guys just had one TRY to scam me on Myspace. He goes by "crespie" on Myspace and "crespiemark69" on Yahoo.

He has been known by other names as well and always comes from a overseas country. This scam is so very common these days.

You can use the link here to search for Romance Scammers at : http://www.romancescam.com use the link "album" and they have 1000's of pictures used by these scammers.

Please be careful, some of these scammers can be very dangerous, even deadly. If it looks and sounds to good to be true it usually is, and they are never ugly! Hope this helped.

Has anyone heard of a myspace romance scam?

Yes Jenni, the poster above is right. Those are Nigerians contacting her. Myspace is heavily infested with them. The Nigerian scammers usually target middle-aged bbws. Their pictures are fake. In reality they are black Nigerian men. Tell her to visit www.romancescam.com, it's about these creeps crawling all over myspace and dating services.