"I offered her my heart... and then she brought out the machete..."

I'm completely stunned. Completely. I mean... those posers must be damned convincing to act as ONE WOMAN in order to trick a guy! Did they take turns? I'm friggin' curious!

...just can't find the words...how? How can people be falling for these things? How?

Now, I consider myself a fairly trusting person so I can understand people giving others the benefit of the doubt...but come on! A dowry in gold bars?! Man oh man, we need to better educate PC users.

Hopefully when our computer savvy kids have grown this sort of scam will be non-existent. Unless of course they learn to cook up their own clever schemes O.o

Can the results of the email correspondance between the scammers and the dude please be published? I think they would provide valuable infotainment.

Sounds like a nice lady.

What was her email address again?

This reminds me of an ad I once saw which described a beautiful, athletic blonde that was looking for someone to take her home and love her. The ad went on about how she enjoyed going for long walks, loved to cuddle and how she was just looking for someone to love unconditionally. More than a few guys were disappointed to find that the ad was placed by the local Humane Society and the beautiful blonde was actually a dog being adopted out.

I guess some people fall for scams because they're lonely.

The golden rule. Id you don't know the person writing the email, just put it in the trash bin. There. period. No exceptions.

Oh. and if you have a chance check the Nigerian Spam Scam Scam (yes two scams) comedie show, really interesting, informative and very funny.

Good day to all.

Garet:

i_heartyou_longtime_withknives[at]notascam[dot]com

Just remember... she may be too good to be true.

I'm ashamed that this guy is Australian :o(

"Simple" reason: half the population is of below average intelligence...

I guess common sense is not all that..... common, eh?

Why are people dumping on this poor guy? For those of you who don't know, the interior of Australia is a wide-open expanse that is hardly populated except for some native tribes and farmers. There is little in the way of luxuries and amenities, and for a guy trying to find a mate that would be willing to move somewhere so remote, it isn't easy. Perhaps the internet was the only way this guy could find someone, someone who did not mind the distance, the solitude and the isolation. And what does he get for his efforts? Scammed.

Don't belittle this guy because he was taken advantaged of. Don't doubt his intelligence or motivations. To those that do, have you never been fooled by anything? I guess you are of the opinion that there are WMDs in Iraq, that Sasquash really does exist and not a man in a suit, and that the western forces were victorious in Vietnam. We are fooled as a populance every day by governments we elect, so people in glass houses stop throwing stones!

Adrian, we're goofing around. Half of the people who post on the Technology YourView know each other via posting here as jokers and we try to have a good yuk now and then. Yes, I'm sure we all recognize the guy was fooled and that it sucked, but at the same time, it was a funny idea that a bunch of men convincingly played a woman. You don't have to belittle us in return either... that just makes you as bad as us. ^^