01-19-2012, 04:38 AM
Hey buddy...my friend got duped the same way. He was in constant email chain with a "woman" from Russia who literally spent a year and a half of her/his life on the phone and computer conversing with him. She couldn\'t come to the U.S. because of a visa situation, but she asked him to fly to Russia. He was about to go until I told him he was plum nuts. If you search this type of story online, it\'s ripe with fraud.
I told him to hold off, and he didn\'t listen to me. He was about to make the flight - and magically- wham- she contacts him says that her mother had an emergency and was admitted to a hospital - which, she needed money to pay for . She asked him for $2000, instead of him coming to Russia - as she would obviously be too busy with her mother to attend to him.
He said no, and caught on.
He attempted to continue calling her and emailing her afterwards, to which, she never replied.
I honestly don\'t think your sister is in actual physical danger, but she might be taken for a pocketbook ride. Or perhaps merely an attempt to gain citizenship. The heart does funny things when its desperate for companionship or an ear to listen.
I told him to hold off, and he didn\'t listen to me. He was about to make the flight - and magically- wham- she contacts him says that her mother had an emergency and was admitted to a hospital - which, she needed money to pay for . She asked him for $2000, instead of him coming to Russia - as she would obviously be too busy with her mother to attend to him.
He said no, and caught on.
He attempted to continue calling her and emailing her afterwards, to which, she never replied.
I honestly don\'t think your sister is in actual physical danger, but she might be taken for a pocketbook ride. Or perhaps merely an attempt to gain citizenship. The heart does funny things when its desperate for companionship or an ear to listen.