Some people like to collect stamps, or coins or plates. Me, I seem to collect scammers on dating websites. It’s a unique talent I have! I seem to be absolutely irresistible to them!
First time
This is a story about how I popped my scammer cherry. It starts with a little bit of back story. I’ve shifted my own mindset from one of worrying about bad things that could happen and instead to look at things as opportunities for development. The idea of being single again and having to date again would have filled me with dread a couple of years ago, but now here I am, putting myself out there, taking risks. I’ve gone from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance. I believe there is somebody out there for me that will like me for my authentic self and that I will find love again. I’ve never been single for long since I was a teenager. However, if you want to win the lottery, you need to buy a ticket.
So, I started approaching women on dating apps, not being afraid to make the first move. I was bold about it and really I saw it as practice. It didn’t matter whether I got knock backs, I’d just keep going, keep learning and see what worked and what didn’t.
I approached a very attractive looking blonde “lady” that was local, not really expecting a response, or even for my message to get read, but it was. She was allegedly a French girl with her own make up company, staying in Manchester for a month and she named a specific area of the city. Interest wise, we didn’t really have a great deal in common, but that was ok, I was just practicing flirting and she would be going back to Nice anyway so there was no prospect of a relationship.
Mine your own business
We had quite normal conversations, she seemed friendly and chatty. She sent me a couple more photos of herself and we just talked for a bit. She mentioned going to get her “mining earrings” and I assumed that this was a jewellery line she was selling, perhaps shaped like a pickaxe or something, but I never picked up on it and the conversation, which was actually more about Christianity than anything else, carried on.
One day, she sent me a screenshot of her “bank account”, out of the blue, showing identical payments going in every 6 hours, $565 USD. Why was she being paid in US dollars and not euros, I’ll never know. OK, I lie, I knew straight away that this was going to be a crypto scam.
I asked her to send me a short video of herself saying “Hello Jon” followed by putting her left palm on her left cheek to confirm she was genuine. She told me to do it first. I replied back saying I thought she was a crypto scammer and that I wasn’t falling for it. She never responded again. If I knew quite how much fun it is to play dumb and scam the scammer back, I would have had my wicked way with her, but alas, it wasn’t to be! I should have told her I don’t date miners, but I didn’t think of that at the time, so now you have to put up with my terrible puns instead.
It would be rude not to?
There have been a couple of other bad faith actors I’ve been involved with. One started with a perfectly normal conversation, then we exchanged WhatsApp details and the first thing “she” did was send me unsolicited nude photos, with a link to a website. She said she was horny and that I could meet her for sex that night. I blocked her straight away, without ever responding. I’m not going to post the images, but the photos were not exactly unattractive but I have more self respect than that, that’s not what I’m looking for. I want a real relationship with a whole person, a real person with thoughts and feelings, dreams and desires.
Hotel of horrors?
Finally there was a girl that I talked to by text quite a lot, that wanted to meet up but then decided she wanted to stay over in a hotel. Fine, I thought maybe she wanted to drink and she was going to drive to where we were going to meet but she said she wanted us to go back to the hotel to get to know each other. In my naivety, I assumed she just meant talk for a bit in private but it was ambiguous, so I asked her to clarify. It turned out she was expecting me to stay with her in a hotel over night after only just meeting. That’s not really my style, but I am still a man after all and the prospect of spending the night with a very good looking lady was quite appealing, but I told her I wanted a video call first, but when I rang, she wouldn’t answer. I didn’t particularly fancy being raped and murdered by Jeffrey Dahmer’s prodigal son, so I politely declined the invitation. I could have finely made my big break on a Netflix true crime show!
It would be nice to find a real person for a change but I guess not all heroes wear capes so I will boldly go where no man has gone before and scam the scammers so you don’t have to. You’re welcome!
