What is it they dont get from us? Why do they do this,? Seriously I'm puzzled.
annep, The people behind these scam letters are fraudsters wanting to get money from us. That is also the reason that they do what they do, to get money.
They work by appearing in our inboxes pretending to be men in middle life doing seemingly exciting interesting, and well paid jobs, but because they have always on the move, the archtypal 'rolling stone that gathers no moss', they have never married had children etc. Now they want to find that 'special lady' .
They pose as men of middle years to attract credulous and, possibly lonely middle-age-plus women, who may be lonely, newly divorced, with some money, or women with careers who have savings and own houses. They lead them up the garden path by developing an interest in them, essentially grooming them, in the same way paedophiles groom children, but what they are after is money not sex.
At sometime in the relationship, they will arrange, for example, to fly to London to meet their target, but at the last minute say that they were mugged and the money stolen, or they had problems transferring money and could the target wire them the air fare money as a loan with a promise to repay. Then bit by bit, pound by pound, they will try to bleed the victim of all her money.
Most of us have the sense to treat these letters with the contempt they deserve, ignore them and block the sender. Sadly, a few, a very few, of the more credulous or desperate women will fall for it, and do not just lose their money but their trust in themselves, their self-esteem and personal respect. It can lead some women caught this way to suicide.
