FabSwingers.com forum: Con artists

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

So watched the tinder swindler last night. Was wondering if any you fabbers have ever been contacted on dating sites by these con artists.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So watched the tinder swindler last night. Was wondering if any you fabbers have ever been contacted on dating sites by these con artists."

I seen it that's crazy and i may have been years ago once but thank god i am not that stupid.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"So watched the tinder swindler last night. Was wondering if any you fabbers have ever been contacted on dating sites by these con artists.

I seen it that's crazy and i may have been years ago once but thank god i am not that stupid. "

He seems to still be pulling off some kind of scam.

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By *ungry CatCouple
over a year ago

Belfast

Few exes I had were beyond useless when it came to paying their own bills, but nothing to that extent.

One thing I did find quite sus on pof and tinder (when I was on it years ago) is certain profiles have the same ("luxurious") photos for years and years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So watched the tinder swindler last night. Was wondering if any you fabbers have ever been contacted on dating sites by these con artists.

I seen it that's crazy and i may have been years ago once but thank god i am not that stupid.

He seems to still be pulling off some kind of scam."

Yeah and then to make his punishment so lenient what's that about.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"So watched the tinder swindler last night. Was wondering if any you fabbers have ever been contacted on dating sites by these con artists.

I seen it that's crazy and i may have been years ago once but thank god i am not that stupid.

He seems to still be pulling off some kind of scam.

Yeah and then to make his punishment so lenient what's that about. "

He was only charged in 1 country and on 1 count. He is living woth a top model now. Wonder how long before he cleans her out??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was seeing a woman I met on pof last year for a while, and she had sent her entire life savings via Western Union to some guy she never met in the US.

Apparently he was a wealthy business man who was temporarily experiencing cash-flow difficulties, and she kindly offered to give this very persuasive conman a short term loan. Needless to say, she never got her money back.

Fools and their money are easily parted...

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

Nope but then I've never been on a dating site. I did have a ex who was a sponger and paid for feck all in our time together. But ye apart from that no and that was a lesson learned as well,it will never happen again.

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By *ka ..Agent k ..Man
over a year ago

just over the way from

Few years ago was in the company of an old gentleman doing some work

Over 10am tea break his land line rang only to receive a call letting him know he won so money. Yahoo..

Quite a substantial amount 'thousands,

On the next breath the gentleman replied that's wonderful, I'm delighted but sir I've lived my life and at my age I'd never spend it besides I've my pension to keep me going the rest of my days.

Young man I'm more than happy to sign it all over to you ,do you have your bank details at hand, hold on to I locate a pen

The line goes silent then that daunting sound if the pips he's hung up..

Thought it brilliant of the old man to bounce the ball back to his court polite and manerly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So watched the tinder swindler last night. Was wondering if any you fabbers have ever been contacted on dating sites by these con artists.

I seen it that's crazy and i may have been years ago once but thank god i am not that stupid.

He seems to still be pulling off some kind of scam.

Yeah and then to make his punishment so lenient what's that about.

He was only charged in 1 country and on 1 count. He is living woth a top model now. Wonder how long before he cleans her out??"

I know i know it's crazy and i bet he's loving the fame out of it now. Once on pof way back when i was on there i did get a guy trying to offer me money for nothing mind you and asked for bank details. Of course i wouldn't dream of it and i actually couldn't believe how the women on that show fell for it for love. There could uld be no love or good looks could make me that silly.

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By *issLipsandhipsWoman
over a year ago

middle of nowhere

"Was seeing a woman I met on pof last year for a while, and she had sent her entire life savings via Western Union to some guy she never met in the US.

Fools and their money are easily parted...

This happens all over the world. I think calling anyone a fool for being a good person & falling for someone is a bit extreme.

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

"Was seeing a woman I met on pof last year for a while, and she had sent her entire life savings via Western Union to some guy she never met in the US.

Fools and their money are easily parted...

This happens all over the world. I think calling anyone a fool for being a good person & falling for someone is a bit extreme. "

It's a bit extreme to send your life savings to somebody you have never met.

Foolish in the extreme.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was seeing a woman I met on pof last year for a while, and she had sent her entire life savings via Western Union to some guy she never met in the US.

Fools and their money are easily parted...

This happens all over the world. I think calling anyone a fool for being a good person & falling for someone is a bit extreme.

It was her foolish greed that made this unfortunate woman send her life savings to a man she had never met. This charming and persuasive con artist managed to convince this woman once his lucrative business deal was done, he would whisk her away to a enjoy millionaire lifestyle. Single and divorced Women between the age of 40-60 are particularly susceptible to this old trick.

Yeah he made them feel like princesses took each one to a five star hotel on the first date. Then yes promising them the world and taking every thing but you would think after the first one or two loans to give him money they would cop onto it. The last woman wasn't as gullable she played him at his own game once she clicked onto it. She got him to send all is top of the range name brand clothes to her and she would sell them and send the cash. She then switched it up and kept refusing to give the money and he turned on her full of anger.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was foolish greed that made this unfortunate woman send her life savings to a man she had never met. The charming and persuasive con artist managed to convince her once his lucrative business deal was done, he would whisk her away to a enjoy a millionaire lifestyle. It seems that single and divorced women between the age of 40-60 are particularly susceptible to this old trick.

"At the age of 37 Lucy Jordan realised she'd never drive through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It was foolish greed that made this unfortunate woman send her life savings to a man she had never met. The charming and persuasive con artist managed to convince her once his lucrative business deal was done, he would whisk her away to a enjoy a millionaire lifestyle. It seems that single and divorced women between the age of 40-60 are particularly susceptible to this old trick.

"At the age of 37 Lucy Jordan realised she'd never drive through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair""

Are you just watching it right now and adding to this as you watch lol.

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By *issLipsandhipsWoman
over a year ago

middle of nowhere

"At the age of 37 Lucy Jordan realised she'd never drive through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair""

Victim blaming yet again lol

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Several years ago I played along with a scammer, faux-naif; this means I pretended not to be aware of what the trajectory of the scam was and feigned complete innocence of her tactics and intentions.

It eventually ended up in court; I won't reveal any further details, but just suffice to say it was an education!

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

I've never been on a dating site and never been a victim of a con but I have rescued a family member from one 25 years ago.

I suspected his girlfriend at the time of telling elaborate lies in regard to her job and contacts because unknown to her some of the names she was dropping were people I knew.

After a couple of months I confronted her with evidence that she was a scam artist and then discovered that the info I had was only the tip of the iceberg.

She had cleaned out his bank account and used the money on fake land deals and property.

She had conned estate agents, solicitors and up to 20 individual business people.

They had all fallen for the smoke and mirrors and the fact that her family were well known landowners and heavily involved in local politics.

At that point her scams were valued at approx £600k but as no legal documents had yet been signed the actual amount lost was about £70k.

I confronted her in her parents home with all the evidence and was threatened with legal action and told to get off their land and the excuse they gave for her behaviour was that she suffered from mental health issues.

The police were involved at that point and over the next year they discovered she had used fake references for two jobs with multinationals and when they followed up on some of the evidence and details I had given them it turned out the iceberg was even bigger than I had discovered with scams of over £1 million.

The mental health claims were backed up with medical records so she was never charged with any crime but 3 years later she stood as a candidate in a local election but was removed from the ballot when the party offices were inundated with complaints from others.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I personally know a guy of a profoundly Christian disposition who met a woman, fifty years his junior, who cleaned him out to the extent that he was obliged to use a food bank.

He had blinded himself to the manner in which he was being scammed; she was highly creative in how she got each tranche of cash from him.

He still talks foolishly empathically about her; it is amazingly to see a willing victim being fleeced for every penny he had. We, his friends, suspect he may have the early signs of dementia.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

RB...some amount of money now and back in the day an absolute fortune ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never personally encountered one on sites I've used over the years. My exes aunt got stung for serious money with one years ago. Cost her a fortune in loans from the credit union and bank. She's still paying for it ten years later

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

"RB...some amount of money now and back in the day an absolute fortune ..."

I'd never seen figures like it before or since but she played everyone off against the others and all the scams and deals were linked. Some of the names she dropped had never heard of her and others knew of her but had no idea she was using their name as part of the scam.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

One aspect of scamming that I only became aware of recently is that some victims are so bereft of human contact, so lonely and isolated, that they welcome the scammer's tactics as a means of having some human contact.

Experienced scammers, especially romance fraudsters of the elderly are highly adept at exploiting this weakness.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Not dating sites but I worked for a UK construction firm years ago. The boss had 1 of his sons working for him as financial controller. He fleeced the firm over 18 months. Ended up with the company going bust and 70 odd men out of work. The dad lost his home and everything whilst the son mived to Spain luving a life of luxury. He didnt even come home for his parents funerals. Just goes to show, you cant trust anyone when money is involved.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Con artists are more common nowadays; Garda Siochana has reported that online scams have increased more than threefold during the Covid pandemic.

Frankly, I am grateful for my scrapes with several amateur scammers in the past; good preparation for the more sophisticated online and face to face scammers that are more prolific and much less immediately obvious nowadays.

On at least three occasions, I knew that I was being 'taken' but played along in order to gain experience: a cost benefit analysis.

As scammers' confidence increases they get more audacious, greedy, ruthless and disdainful of their target.

When I eventually brought them to book, when I had learned enough, they realised that they had risen to MY bait: hook, line and sinker! Touche.

I never heard from them ever again. They give me a wide berth.

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