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Ireland’s First “Romance Scam” - 3 Nigerians Arrested

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    #32
    Rodney Bathgate
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    imme wrote: »
    Well done Ireland.

    Let’s wait until they have been deported before we congratulate ourselves.


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    #33
    hayoc
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    Potatoeman wrote: »
    Confidence scams usually offer something for knowingly breaking the law. That’s where the saying that you can’t con an honest man comes from.

    Romance scams dont work the same way. Its more sob story based.


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    #34
    imme
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    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Let’s wait until they have been deported before we congratulate ourselves.

    I was being ironic.

    Those people won't be going anywhere.

    I'd they do go to prison they may study Internet security or investment security. :)

    Well done Ireland.


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    #35
    Potatoeman
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    hayoc wrote: »
    Romance scams dont work the same way. Its more sob story based.

    Then why would they expect the money back?


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    #36
    bigpink
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    Start rounding them all up..plenty here years with no legal status
    Look at the African crime levels in Ireland now


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    #37
    hayoc
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    Potatoeman wrote: »
    Then why would they expect the money back?

    Because they were scammed.

    If your partner asks you for money to pay off some debt and and then it turns out there was no debt and they arent really your partner and they were just trying to get your money - its a scam.

    People who fall for this are usually desperately lonely. And when they realise they were scammed they are ashamed because people will give the response seen throughout this thread - that they were stupid and should have known better. So it often goes unreported.


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    #38
    washman3
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    What have they been doing here for a number of years?


    Spending the money they won in the 'Nigerian Lotto'....;)


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    #39
    Mongfinder General
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    bigpink wrote: »
    Start rounding them all up..plenty here years with no legal status
    Look at the African crime levels in Ireland now

    These men are the product of a poor environment.
    There's nothing wrong with them. Given the right surroundings and encouragement, I'll bet that those men could run our country as well as Young Leo could.


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    #40
    Emme
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    biko wrote: »
    It's sad when people are so desperate for love they fall into traps like this.
    At the same time it's so low to prey on women this way.

    It isn't just Nigerians scammers who prey on women that way (financially). Women on their own in this country, particularly older ones who have poor support systems, have traditionally been fair game for scammers, dupers, con men etc. For example, the unscrupulous farmer trying to buy a widow's farm for way below its market value. Rural Ireland is full of stories of scams like this, all from a time that Nigeria was just a place on a map of Africa as far as Irish people were concerned. I'm not excusing these lads but there are Irish every bit as bad.


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    #41
    [Deleted User]
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    The woman alleges she spent cash on an investment project in the Middle East that never existed after receiving correspondence on the dating website Plenty of Fish last year from a man claiming to be a US oil rig worker.

    "Plenty of Fish" was a spot-on site name in her case in fairness

    Maybe she was after a bit of Clonakilty

    But hopefully these lads will find their calling outside Ireland back in their own land


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    #42
    bigpink
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    We all see how well North Dublin is doing with Africans


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    #43
    imme
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    Emme wrote: »
    It isn't just Nigerians scammers who prey on women that way (financially). Women on their own in this country, particularly older ones who have poor support systems, have traditionally been fair game for scammers, dupers, con men etc. For example, the unscrupulous farmer trying to buy a widow's farm for way below its market value. Rural Ireland is full of stories of scams like this, all from a time that Nigeria was just a place on a map of Africa as far as Irish people were concerned. I'm not excusing these lads but there are Irish every bit as bad.

    The case is 3 Nigerians, if you have evidence of wrongdoing in other cases this is not the place for it.


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    #44
    Galwayguy35
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    Emme wrote: »
    Rural Ireland is full of stories of scams like this, all from a time that Nigeria was just a place on a map of Africa as far as Irish people were concerned. I'm not excusing these lads but there are Irish every bit as bad.

    Is it?

    I'm from rural Ireland and have yet to hear of something like this happening.


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    #45
    Galwayguy35
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    looks like they were very grateful to be given citizenship in our country and just wanted to pay us back.


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    #46
    Yellow_Fern
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    In some places you have whole companies specialising in scamming people in Europe. There is a wonderful Nordie hacker who exposes them Jim Browning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9LUS2F1cA


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    #47
    BattleCorp
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    glasso wrote: »
    Maybe she was after a bit of Clonakilty

    I see what you did there. :D:D:D


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    #48
    suicide_circus
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    This smacks of systemic racism.


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    #49
    Junkyard Tom
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    People from outside the EU should be here on a sort of 'provisional licence' whereby they get turfed out of the country if they do shit like that in the first 10/15 years.


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    #50
    Emme
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Is it?

    I'm from rural Ireland and have yet to hear of something like this happening.
    I know of a widowed woman from the South West who fell for such a ruse. Local farmer courted her and got her late husband's farm at a knockdown price. The relationship broke up soon after he bought the farm funny enough. The widow's elderly in-laws who still lived in the home place ended up with very little rights. This was 20 years ago. Nigerian scammers are clear cut but Irish scammers are more cunning and play the long game, sometimes decades.


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    #51
    Rodney Bathgate
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    This smacks of systemic racism.

    It is well established that only white people can be racist. So there can be no systemic racism in Nigeria.


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    #52
    Gervais08
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    I’ve never experienced these scams online but on holiday in Tunisia I had some slimy git hitting on me - clearly after money or a visa.

    Got the full on “you’re the most beautiful woman in the world....” 🀮 .

    I feel sorry for anyone who falls for this.


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    #53
    irishproduce
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    Gonna bet my hat the victims are fat lonely birds


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    #54
    Gervais08
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    irishproduce wrote: »
    Gonna bet my hat the victims are fat lonely birds

    I would disagree there, speaking as someone who’ll never see her 40s again and is a big girl - we tend to be a bit cynical to the overt flattery. And tbh we’re single more often than not and get used to the positives!!!

    My money would be on women who’ve probably always been told they were hot but the bloom is off the rose now - plus you know those women who have a pathological need to be able to say “I have a boyfriend!” - like it defines them.

    Them too.


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    #55
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    irishproduce wrote: »
    Gonna bet my hat the victims are fat lonely birds

    they do be do goin' mad for those English tv channels that are not ITV and Channel 4.


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    #56
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Gervais08 wrote: »
    I’ve never experienced these scams online but on holiday in Tunisia I had some slimy git hitting on me - clearly after money or a visa.

    Got the full on “you’re the most beautiful woman in the world....” �� .

    I feel sorry for anyone who falls for this.


    Very common in Turkey too.


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    #57
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Very common in Turkey too.

    Sure didn’t the lady with the big glasses on Coronation Street end up with a Turkish lad.


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    #58
    Gervais08
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    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Sure didn’t the lady with the big glasses on Coronation Street end up with a Turkish lad.

    Samir!!! Tho tbh that pilot was more bother !!!


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    #59
    Normal One
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    Gervais08 wrote: »
    Samir!!! Tho tbh that pilot was more bother !!!

    Poor lad got stabbed by the racists too, on his way to give junkie Tracey a spare kidney. Bless my memory.


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    #60
    not yet
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    irishproduce wrote: »
    Gonna bet my hat the victims are fat lonely birds

    Bit like this


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    #61
    Emme
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    Gervais08 wrote: »
    I would disagree there, speaking as someone who’ll never see her 40s again and is a big girl - we tend to be a bit cynical to the overt flattery. And tbh we’re single more often than not and get used to the positives!!!

    My money would be on women who’ve probably always been told they were hot but the bloom is off the rose now - plus you know those women who have a pathological need to be able to say “I have a boyfriend!” - like it defines them.

    Them too.

    It's often newly widowed or divorced women who married young and have never experienced what it's like to be single for a long time. They don't know the pitfalls of the dating scene and are easier prey than women who have been single for a very long time and know their worth (or lack thereof) on the dating scene.


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