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Amazingly, people still don't get this Scam

I read today, on a local site I keep an eye on, of a member who has received an email, saying if she comes to Nigeria, she will receive free SRS.

I'm not going to say anything about this person, her state of being or anything, you the reader, will work that out but rather than ignore this altogether as my gut tells me I should do, I thought it timely that we look at the subject of " too good to be true" offers for GRS.

If this has turned up in the Land of West Oz, it sure as hell will be rife throughout the US, so I post this as a warning.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH.

You will be overpowered by this sweeter than sweet man who loves you for who you are and if you come over to Nigeria( or wherever) he will see that you get the surgery you so desperately require.

What is most likely to happen is that once he has totally sucked you in, he will say he needs a small amount of money to get the process started.

He will have letters, probably genuine, from government and/or hospital people to back him up.

They are called accomplices.

Once you are in the web of his deceit, he will slowly draw you in, until you are willingly giving him everything you have because you are in so deep, that you might as well keep going because, after all, what have you got to lose.

In your case, it might only be a smallish amount but he is sucking in many people and you are but one of his suckers.

The second scenario, might include the first, but you get to go over there and you get your surgery.

WHOOPEE, except your family get an email saying you have died on the operating table.

You have been used for body parts!!!!

Mind you, you might get lucky and they only take a kidney or something equally disposable.

But the one fact is, you will not get GRS.

Please don't respond to any sort of friendship request, that asks for your details, including email.

Stay mainstream, stay safe and DO NOT become a statistic.

We need you alive and well.

If it's too good to be true, you better believe it.

DON'T BE SUCKED IN.

There is so much more to be said, but I shall leave it up to contributors...........

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Comment by Marsha M. Marsha on July 18, 2012 at 5:31am: Well , with the state that Nigeria is in with Muslim extremists riding cars into churches to blow them up, along with other atrocities, I wasn't considering there as my next vacatiin spot.

It's a good warning, Rachel, not so much Nigeria itself, but the undertone of your blog: there are people out there that know our desperation and look to profit from it. The transcommunity is becoming a source of wealth for alot of people.

Comment by Erin Detty on July 18, 2012 at 9:51am: The world can be so cruel! What worries me is people seem to have such short memories, this seems to help keep these scams coming back attracting more and more victims, over and over again, sometimes just by using different wording. Thanks for telling us about this, I have never heard of anything quite like this, Mean people!

Comment by Galina Edwards on July 18, 2012 at 10:20am: Thanks Rachel for the early warning. I am one of those people that does not open any E-Mail from anyone or organization I do not know.

Thanks for the reminder and needed warning.

Comment by HELEN BRADY on July 19, 2012 at 4:46am: Maybe our next for profit war will be Nigeria, Obama's homeland!

Comment by Rachel King on July 19, 2012 at 6:04am: Helen, you surprise me,

" For the sins of the father"

I do believe Prez Obama was born in Hawaii, maybe that's an occupied country but it's still A-merican, so it would seem a reasonable assumption that your Prez is American as the proverbial apple pie.

And seeing I am setting out to upset anybody who will listen, the world hopes that he will be Prez, come November, not that ninny, Mutt (sic).

Love you still, Helen, hahahahaha.

Comment by Rachel King on July 19, 2012 at 6:16am: So many of us, no, the general population, see this on the telly time after time after time and yet still people will be stupid enough to allow desperation to cloud their thinking, believing that "it won't happen to me".

Course it will, if you're stupid enough to think that you're not stupid enough to get caught out like those other stupid people.

Actually, I would love to see someone who was honest enough, to come on this blog and provide some first hand information about these leeches.

I promise not to belittle them.

I have some fun and joke around often but I am feral when it comes to people I care about being scammed or hurt by outsiders, those who would get their jollies by hurting others.

Jeez, if a troll comes up with a bogus story, beware!!!!

Comment by Traci O'Gara on July 21, 2012 at 1:07am: First off, Obama's father was Kenyan...no biggie...

Now for the rest of the story (true)...

So Prince WatchaWatchaDumbAss of Nigeria emails me to tell me I am the most beautiful woman he has ever set his eyes on in a smooth English dialect that can only be described as flowing and eloquent. He describes his home land, his family history, his education abroad with the highest degrees bestowed to scholars. It's a fun read...I respond back to him, fully knowing it's a scam because I am NOT the most beautiful woman in the world, and engage in dreamy romantic chatter of hopes and dreams. This of course gets him all excited thinking he has a sucker on the other end...we go back and forth for weeks sharing our deepest wishes and feelings and he continues to pile it on romantically. Then, he makes me an offer I can't refuse! His assets are tied up in the local banks due to some political unrest and he is in dire need of $15,000 in order to secure a position in an upcoming offering. In exchange for me wiring him the money, he will give me 50% ownership in this investment that promises huge returns and fly me first class to Paris a few months later to stay with him in his penthouse apartment overlooking the Louvre. So of course I get back to him and tell him how kind, generous, and loving of him it is for him to do this for me and gladly offer to wire him the money. All he needs to do is give me the closest Western Union office number and I can arrange it within 24 hours! I let an evening go by, then drop him a quick note to inform his majesty that the money has been wired and he can pick it up at the agreed upon WU office...so he rolls over there and finds nothing there for him! He gets back to me in about one hour with his disappointment. I apologize profusely and tell him I made an error and had sent it to a bank in the next state or region or whatever they have over there. By my maps, it is about a 3 hour drive. The next day, he runs out to the destination and again is disappointed to find nothing there waiting for him...late in the day, he returns home and gets back to me and is very upset. I apologize again and tell him that the transfer did not go thru due to some issues on my end and that I assure him I will have at the bank, 3 hours from him, the next AM. This time I did have something for him...it was a telegram made out to a name he gave me as his driver. This message from me to him simply said.."busted ....HaHaHa"! When he got back to me again, he was very angry with me! Go figure! Never heard a peep from him again after that...all told, it cost me about $40 to trick him...it was worth every penny! (smile)

But do not fall for these creeps...some are very good and there are numerous methods to entrap you.

Has anyone been told they want YOU to be their mother yet???? (another story...maybe some other time)

Traci xoxo

Comment by Rachel King on July 21, 2012 at 1:38am: Jeez, you're devious Traci, hahaha.

I should be so lucky to have such an admirer that I might play him for the fool he takes all others for.

I get countless emails, usually attached to a friends( often Pe girls) email address and they all get the same thoughtful treatment.

I immediately trash them because the one you open will attach one of those nasty virus thingy's to you and life will become a misery, like we don't have enough to go through as it is.

And that's the bottom line.

Look after yourself because above all others, you are worth it.

Comment by Traci O'Gara on July 21, 2012 at 7:30am: If you do not know me by know, I would say that I am a bit playful and like to make lemonaid from lemons...girls our age must have a sense of humor or we wouldn't have made it this far! Hear that all you "youngins" out there?

But gawd, these Nigerian scammers have their own cottage industry...it is big business for them over there...oh, does anyone have an updated Western Union office list? (smile)

Traci xoxo

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