Checking method:
Send a flower.
1. Visit your nearest florist.
2. Send a flower.
3. Specify to have any delivery trouble reported back. If the local flower hawker have the #3 option. And if all florists connected to international flower delivery services can make this happen.
The best way to check if the lady is a scammer or not is to refuse to send her money when she asks for it. If she disappears right away she was not very sincere. If you stick to the rule of never sending money to a girl you will be all right. To check the lady’s identity sending flowers is one of the options. You can also send her something (a letter for example) by DHL or FedEx. Though, flowers are a much of a romantic gift…
The biggest thing is the internet cafe crap!! Do this, right click on her/his latest email and select properties, then details. Read down about half way and look for the words DIALUP! no cafes to my knowledge have a dial up connection, to many pc. Hope that helps and remember SEND NO CASH!! If she's genuine, she will let YOU pay for all at your end.
By Questionnaire:
Q1: Where are you studying? (then get the establishment to confirm it)
Q2: Ask for a home address, and check it with the establishment, if you can
Q3: Ask for a photo of her with family (then you'll know that the photo's not stolen by (copying)
Q4: She said she didn't have a telephone at home - but she could send e-mails after midnight! Ha, Ha, Ha!
Q5: If she's writing only to you now - tell her to remove her Profile
Q6: Ask something like this:
Internet:
Now, I have to talk about something, I hope that you will not be offended by it. I do know about Lagans, it is a place where exist many criminals who use women to make money by Internet, you heard about it. I know that many girls are used by criminals, even some girls were hurt, and some photos are stolen and the girls do not know that their photo is on the Agency. So you can understand it is so very bad for these things happening to true and honest women. “Scammer’s name” it is for your protection that I need to be sure that no person is writing and translating false information. Lagans region is a very bad region. I do not want to add to the list of bad things. What I want is to give you the chance for a new life, so I am very careful to find that no person is using you and you are not going to be used by criminals. So to help you, I do need to know where you study, and I would like your home address and photo with your family (you can take some time to do this, so please keep writing to me). Then I know that your identity is not stolen by the criminals and making copy of photo by Internet on the Agency. When I am happy about this I will be able to offer you a wonderful life. In this way I will be protecting all the other women who are trying to find happiness - so please do not be offended.
Other Info:
One of the best ways to catch a scammer is to email her from a different email and you pretend to be someone else. Works easy if you where the one who contacted her in the first place. If she contacted you, well you can write you saw her profile on bla bla and you would like to get to know her. She can't know if you paid for her address or not. With scammers you will most likely get a rather form like letter as you will get the exact letter she sent the "other guy", and if you want to still believe her see what it is like after letter 2, 3, or 4, letters.
There is a group, running scams out of Nigeria that uses many addresses like this. They will ask to have packages sent to your home and then have them picked up and delivered elsewhere. They use stolen credit cards. The other scam is sending you money orders and you return the money via Western Union. Don't fall for it! If ANYONE sends you a postal service money order, bring it to your post office to validate it. If anyone wants to have merchandise sent to you, don't let them!
