What do you think?

[OnMyWay]

I could not resist to post this!  I belong to a US Visa forum due to getting visas for my wife and stepdaughter.  There is a lot of interesting stuff there.

Some guy posted this topic:

My girlfriend was held at a police station for 48 hours for a debt. Debt was paid and she was released. Will this disqualify her4 for a Visa. And if not and we get married there in the Philippines, what is that Visa Called?

So there were a lot of posts with advice and warnings.  He finally comes back with this.  I'm having a hard time believing he is not pulling our leg!  What do you think?

I think I am being scammed, almost a day hasn't gone by without a money request. 3 months. But I've seen scams and she had pictures, and.... Well. A surgery, she shoed me body parts that needed surgery, a Typhoon, and I verified there was a typhon. A Grandfather died, and she sent me a picture of her standing next to a very old dead person in a coffin. She said she got a hernias', and showed me Invoices, Her Dad got in a motorcycle accident, and they would stich him up till I paid for that, after she sent me pics of his head stitched up, then He needed restitched, and I could come up with the money fast enough and she said he died. She sent me more coffin pics, I paid half, and she said she promised to pay the other half in 48 hours, but I could come up with the money in 48 hours. It took 5 days And after 48 hours she sent me pictures of her at a police station, and they held here for 48 hours till I paid the other half of the debt. I paid and they let her go. She showed me pictures of the motorcycle and it was totaled. So I believe her. And now we are working on her Roofless house from the typhoon, she showed me pics of a house with no roof, I paid for the materials she said they installed it, but every picture she shows me is not of a house with a new roof. I risked calling her out, and she said she is not that type of person. She did not get mad a flea, I said no more money till after we get married, she agreed. lol  ugh

[Jollygoodfellow]

His post reads like he has enough intelligence to give her all of his money.

[baronapart]

We gave him some good advice STT. Now if he listens is another thing)) I told him to expect a dying caribou any day...

[Mike J]

A fool and his money are soon parted.  But sometimes it take a little while. 

 

[baronapart]

15 minutes ago, Mike J said:

A fool and his money are soon parted.  But sometimes it take a little while. 

 

My wife is playing the long con))))

[OnMyWay]

6 hours ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

His post reads like he has enough intelligence to give her all of his money.

He must be wealthy enough to do so!  It doesn't seem to bother him.

[OnMyWay]

6 hours ago, baronapart said:

We gave him some good advice STT. Now if he listens is another thing)) I told him to expect a dying caribou any day...

I just could not believe that list!  As PT Barnum said, there is a sucker born every minute!

[BrettGC]

Couple of things missing from the list:

School/university fees

Money for new laptop/phone to stay in touch

Money to pay for a celebration - birthday, wedding etc

Money for the visa assistance company

 

Maybe we should do up a proforma checklist to play scam bingo with! 

 

[graham59]

"Okay, I beleve you ! You can bury him again now ! "  

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[Snowy79]

Unfortunately some scammers are very clever and have a whole library of photos and fake invoices to use. Helped of course by a sucker being born every minute. I can say that I've had a steep learning curve over the 6yrs that I've been here, learning form others I'll add but still got caught out for the odd 100 or so peso here and there.  Worth it in my eyes to sift the wheat from the chaff.