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How can I make this guy pretending to be a chick think I will actually wire them their scam money?

  • I got a three month paid subscription on Match.com. I live in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA. This one chick said she was from Addison, Illinois, which is only about a 30-minute drive from my house and messaged me on Match.com asking me for my personal email address. I thought it was a little weird that I'm 31 and she said she was 28 and was looking for men aged 30 to 65!!!! So, I didn't think MUCH of it and messaged her my personal email address. Then she emailed me apologizing over and over saying she was actually from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She said she used a random zip code in Illinois because she wants to meet "the right guy" and relocate to the US. So, I got suspicious, but kept writing. She then wrote me this long as heck email telling me about how her parents were tragically killed in a terrible apartment fire when she lived in the US when she was 5 and her aunt took her to Malaysia. After research later on I found out that kind of info is often a scam alert because they want you to feel sorry for them. We started chatting every day on Yahoo Messenger. Within FIVE DAYS, she said she had "fallen in love" with me and wanted to relocate. I said she didn't know what she was saying and we should talk on the phone. First scam: she asked for $200 for a phone card that would allow her to have broadband internet and make international phone calls to me. I knew where this was going, so I opened up one of her emails, read the full email header, got her IP address, looked it up online and found out the IP address originated from Lagos, Nigeria, the capital of the world of scams. So, I figured I'd mess with her head or his head or whatever. I looked up a broadband internet company in Malaysia and gave her REAL prices on broadband internet in her city which was $15 per month. She didn't seem to like this idea. Next scam: She said Valentine's Day was coming up and she wanted to be with me. I told her I had to go somewhere for a couple days but I'd write her when I got back. I didn't go anywhere...just wanted to make her/him desperate for their scammed money. So, I wrote a ton of bulls*** about how I inherited all this money from a family member's passing from last year and I would use that money to fly her over here from Kuala Lumpur. I even looked up an actual round-trip flight to Chicago O'Hare airport and back and copied and pasted all the details in an email to her. Meanwhile, I contacted her Internet Service Provider, VISAFONE, gave them her/his email address and IP address and gave them all the information they needed. They just got back to me yesterday and thanked me for my investigative work and said she or he was indeed doing a scam and they'd try to shut down her internet access. I wrote her/him another email with more info and she wrote back telling me to Western Union the money to her, giving me her real name which just happened to be the real name on her email address. Stupid scammer, but they got to show identification to pick up money at Western Union, so... She asked me for all the information she needed to know for me to wire her the $1500 for her airplane ticket, but I've never used Western Union. What information do I need to give her? If you think I am trying to scam someone, feel free to message me from Y!A and I'll forward you all our chat transcripts and all the emails, so you know she or he is the scammer. I just want her/him to think all this tons of money is actually coming to them. Also, now that I have their name, I don't know if I need any other additional info of theirs to pretend to wire money. One ill turn deserves another and these people have to be stopped. Obviously, one person, me cannot change the entire capital of the world of scams, but hey, I figure she or he totally deserves to think that somehow the money got lost in the transfer and I don't have anymore to send or something like that. I haven't thought it all out yet. Whatever Western Union info I would normally have to give someone, if you know, please let me know, so she will get her upcomings, which I suppose is only sheer disappointment. But hey, I totally wasted their time and soon they won't have an internet connection at all. Thanks!! chris

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    On the 419eater forum there is a link to a fake Western Union receipt generator http://www.419hell.com/Nigerian_Scam_Baiting/Scam_Baiting_Links.html so you can make them beleive the money has been sent

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Doing "something to piss these a**holes off" is called "scambaiting". Wasting a scammer's time legally and safely is called "scambaiting". If you google that word, you will find sites where you can read scambaits, post up the emails and email addresses of scammers, post up a fake website, read up on how to alert a hosting company that they are hosting a fake website, ask questions and learn all about the hobby of scambaiting. Thanks for posting up the information on that scammer. Making a scammer's scam googlable on every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find is a great way to slow that scammer down when a suspicious potential victim goes looking for information, finds your post containing the name the scammer is using, his email address, phone number and the emails themselves and then that potential victim does not become a scam victim because you took the time "get the word out". Thanks!!

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Not really answering but that's really funny if you know what a troll is, you just trolled a troller.

Quote: "I knew where this was going, so I opened up one of her emails, read the full email header, got her IP address, looked it up online and found out the IP address originated from Lagos, Nigeria, the capital of the world of scams." I can imagine how you have enjoy playing with scammer. For the people who are not sure about scam and would like to track where the email was originally sent from use email trackers: http://www.ip-address.org/tracker/trace-email.php http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/email-tracking/email-header.php http://www.find-ip-address.org/email-search/find-email.php It is great way to track real location of sender.

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