Not that SCAM again?

When will people learn, this world-wide scam keeps sucking in the vulnerable, Please read the link and if you know a person in simular situation, WARN THEM!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351954/Mother-conned-80-000-swindlers-posing-American-soldier-internet-dating-site.html 

People will fall for and do some crazy things when they are desperate to hang on to an illusion. It's just so sad that there are so many people, men as well as women, who are so lonely and in need of companionship that they will buy into almost anything.

I have gone the route of Internet dating sites but that was several years ago and I saw the futility in that pretty quickly (speaking for myself only).

Whenever i have a scammer rear it's ugly head on my computer i go into attack mode. I use a proxy internet address to send up to a 1000 emails a second to their email address, changing the email headers with every email. I use the same software they use but only to one email address instead of millions, and keep at until i have crashed their email address. Sometimes i just send one with a bombload that will try to infect their BIOS or their hard drive if opened. My greatest amount of emails in one attack was 784 million.

Not very legal, but very, very satisfying.

That's very true Mike we did as a family have occasion to encourage a member not to get involved in what appeared to be a similar scam last year!

That's the power of POE!

I remember that, and I believe that member might have disregarded our advice.  I've seen that member on Facebook, so perhaps I'll check there and see if I can find out what's going on.

I'm sorry, but anytime a man starts asking me for large sums of money my alarm bells go off.  First of all, I don't have large sums of money lying around for any purpose, and secondly, I'm not likely to hand them over to some guy who feeds me a sob story. 

Funny...my mom sent me an email yesterday from a barrister from England and asked me to check with my "POE friends" as she said!!

It is a total scam, no doubt. I don't know why she even questioned it!!