Consumer Advice

I've been on Match.com almost since the beginning - 20 years (and it's not done me a damn bit of good - makes me feel real good about myself ). In the beginning it was free so I've been grandfathered in and will never pay to have an ad on there. Now it's only really good for playing with the scam artists. About once or twice a year, I get a message from a very attractive woman from Africa who just happened to be living close to me before she had to go home to Ghana to take care of a sick mother but wanted to start communicating with me. I dragged one on for a couple of weeks (I was impressed with the slow con) until we had finally declared our mutual love for each other, and we were talking about my coming to Ghana to see her. And then I told "her" I didn't have that much money, but if she could buy me a ticket, I would pay her back. Never heard back from her again.

Bitch broke my heart.

This is an interesting story. I don't know if he has his blog still up, but he had tons of stories about scamming scammers. The best one was convincing some to recreate Monty Python's, "Parrot Sketch," for entry into an amateur video contest with a large grand prize.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7688138

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