So my brothers wife walked out on him and with one of his friends that was staying at their home at the time. 
Now--his wife is the same age as me--59 years old. I thought that most people by the time they reached my age are too damn tired to do this kind of thing. I guess not in her case. She's a registered administrative nurse too. You'd think that this woman would have more brains than this. Education and success does not always equal common sense--this is a given fact.
My brother is an ex-Marine and has that PTSD thing. He can get obsessive and depressed at times, but he's an easy going guy and has always been faithful to her.
So any way--they're separated now and he's been in those online dating sites. So he sends me a pic of this sexy young gal half his age that contacted him from Nigeria--told him she was there on missionary work--okay---some of you already know what happened next. My brother is not internet savvy. He doesn't even know how to send an email--LOL Everything he does know, his wife helped teach him--which isn't much.
So immediately I tell him that there are Nigerian scammers out there who saturate the dating site using pics of good looking people and that he was probably talking to some hairy guy in a mud hut in Nigeria using this girls pic. He's already falling in love with this person and I told him that he didn't realize what he was doing. So his words to me were--"why are you busting my balls here"? He even got angry with me. This person had already asked him for 1,500.00 and I told him that by no means at all should he send any money or give out any of his personal info. He at least listened to me regarding that--thank God!
So there's an online test to see if you've been contacted by one of these scammers and I had him take the test. Turns out that his score was over the top. Almost every single tactic and phrase these scammers use was used on him as well. Then when he tried to get this person to call him--they told him they had "bad reception" in that part of Nigeria. I told him if they had bad reception--they couldn't text him either on their phone--duh--yet he was getting constant texts from this person without interruption. Finally this person gave him a phone number that was based in St. Peters, MN. He tried to call it and it was a dead number as well.
I finally convinced him to dump this person knowing he was being scammed. He did and now he told me that he's getting off the computer for good. I told him that was the best idea he had yet since I'm thousands of miles away and can't help him with it.
He's lonely and these are the kinds of people these scammers hunt for and they give age ranges in their profiles like 25 to 80 so they can target a larger group of people. My brother was a prime target being he's in his early sixties and a lonely guy looking for companionship. When he thought that this sexy young woman was interested in him--he was easily duped into believing the scam.
I told him that the internet is a dangerous place to play these days without knowing and understanding what all is out there. He's off the internet for good and thank the Lord too because I was really worried about him. Yesterday he called me and said--sis--"you saved my ass". Lonely guys have deep pockets for these scum-bag scammers. He said he was going to church now and hopefully will meet some nice woman who's local. I told him that was his best bet. I didn't like the church he chose to go to but hey--I was looking at it like any Christian church is better than him doing something really stupid on an internet dating site. I certainly wasn't going to make an issue of which church to go to either because he has no clue about doctrinal differences either
Now--his wife is the same age as me--59 years old. I thought that most people by the time they reached my age are too damn tired to do this kind of thing. I guess not in her case. She's a registered administrative nurse too. You'd think that this woman would have more brains than this. Education and success does not always equal common sense--this is a given fact. My brother is an ex-Marine and has that PTSD thing. He can get obsessive and depressed at times, but he's an easy going guy and has always been faithful to her.
So any way--they're separated now and he's been in those online dating sites. So he sends me a pic of this sexy young gal half his age that contacted him from Nigeria--told him she was there on missionary work--okay---some of you already know what happened next. My brother is not internet savvy. He doesn't even know how to send an email--LOL Everything he does know, his wife helped teach him--which isn't much.
So immediately I tell him that there are Nigerian scammers out there who saturate the dating site using pics of good looking people and that he was probably talking to some hairy guy in a mud hut in Nigeria using this girls pic. He's already falling in love with this person and I told him that he didn't realize what he was doing. So his words to me were--"why are you busting my balls here"? He even got angry with me. This person had already asked him for 1,500.00 and I told him that by no means at all should he send any money or give out any of his personal info. He at least listened to me regarding that--thank God!
So there's an online test to see if you've been contacted by one of these scammers and I had him take the test. Turns out that his score was over the top. Almost every single tactic and phrase these scammers use was used on him as well. Then when he tried to get this person to call him--they told him they had "bad reception" in that part of Nigeria. I told him if they had bad reception--they couldn't text him either on their phone--duh--yet he was getting constant texts from this person without interruption. Finally this person gave him a phone number that was based in St. Peters, MN. He tried to call it and it was a dead number as well.
I finally convinced him to dump this person knowing he was being scammed. He did and now he told me that he's getting off the computer for good. I told him that was the best idea he had yet since I'm thousands of miles away and can't help him with it.
He's lonely and these are the kinds of people these scammers hunt for and they give age ranges in their profiles like 25 to 80 so they can target a larger group of people. My brother was a prime target being he's in his early sixties and a lonely guy looking for companionship. When he thought that this sexy young woman was interested in him--he was easily duped into believing the scam.
I told him that the internet is a dangerous place to play these days without knowing and understanding what all is out there. He's off the internet for good and thank the Lord too because I was really worried about him. Yesterday he called me and said--sis--"you saved my ass". Lonely guys have deep pockets for these scum-bag scammers. He said he was going to church now and hopefully will meet some nice woman who's local. I told him that was his best bet. I didn't like the church he chose to go to but hey--I was looking at it like any Christian church is better than him doing something really stupid on an internet dating site. I certainly wasn't going to make an issue of which church to go to either because he has no clue about doctrinal differences either
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