This is what a scam email looks like...

[TomT]

Brides and Lovers. Doesn't SteveBoy of RUA fame run that agency out of St. Pete? I'm fairly certain that's the case.

He claimed that he does.

[2tallbill]

Yes, computers do break, but going to a dating agency to reply back to me??  It sure looks fishy?

It's fishy, in my opinion.

She would have gone to a friends house and used google translate if
she was a good girl/sincere girl. She would have used her phone, she
would have found a way other than going to a pay by the letter
agency. 

She wouldn't have wanted you to pay money for the translations etc.
Good girls find a way, 

Udachi!

Bill

[Chicagoguy]

During early dating with mw future wife I sent her a real letter. That's right. The USPS. She was surprised but is was OK with her. Just another way to check.

[Morty]

She is shilling for business. There is a fantastic blog post on elenas  models that translated all the job adverts for paid translators and chat girls. Seriously these guys need to realise we are not in the naughtiest. I don't know a single woman in the flu these days who doesn't have a iPhone or android smartphone, there are plenty of free wifi hotspots. any woman who claims the only way she communicate is being sat in an agency office is full of shit. If she is on a site that doesn't pay or pays a bad rate she might have spotted an offer to get paid, or she is simply a plant to acquire customers. The whole 'they can arrange meetings etc'. If a woman is serious about you she doesn't want you in a country mile of an agency in case you meet someone else who makes a better offer.

You obviously figured it out, but it's good you posted it for the benefit of lurkers so they can avoid falling for this kind of phishing.

[Darth_Budda]

If a woman is serious about you she doesn't want you in a country mile of an agency in case you meet someone else who makes a better offer.

+1

[rockford75]

Could go either way. She never asked you for money or to join the dating agency shes at to write you. Steady as she goes man. keep writing her and see what happens.

[JayH]

This is what a scam email looks like...

FROM: DR. JIM OVIA
Director ATM Swift Card &
Foreign Operation Payment Due Process Unit
Email: atmlogisticunit01@yahoo.com
.
Attn. Dear Beneficiary,

Going by series of petition received from international body on the way your inheritance/contract fund was handled by our correspondence office, After Extensive close door meeting with board of directors and other stake holders in the Government, subcommittees of the house of Assembly and the house of Rep,Federal Republic of Nigeria. It was Resolved and agreed upon that your inheritance/contract fund of $7.6Million United State Dollars would be released on a special method of payment, Which the tag name Reads SWIFT CREDIT CARD.

This method of payment is designed by the Government to avert fraud perpetration or stoppage of fund by some agencies, either through Anti terrorist certificate or other certificates. However, it is our pleasure to inform you that your swift Credit Card Number: 5301 2364 5247 0336, meanwhile, your secret Pin Number will be available as soon as you confirm to us the receipt of your swift credit card, also you are advised that a maximum withdraw value of $10,000.00 is permitted daily.

This swift credit card will be issued to you upon meeting with the bank requirement, this office has mandated to take charge of the insurance of the SWIFT CREDIT CARD, However, your inheritance payment file has being crosscheck, and approve for payment in your favor.

This SWIFT CREDIT CARD has being programmed in our net work system, You are advised to get back to this office with your address and private telephone number for the release/dispatch of the SWIFT CREDIT CARD to your destination, this development will be keep for yourself alone and should not relate to any one till you received you ATM CARD. PLEASE CONTACT US HERE (atmlogisticunit01@yahoo.com).

Looking forward to hear from you.

Yours Faithfully

Dr. Jim Ovia
ATM Logistic Unit
Zenith Bank Plc.

[JohnDearGreen]

Obvious solution is to find another lady....with multiple platforms (desktop, laptop, smartphone), UPS power backup,  network and server dynamic-backup-on-demand, outsourced technical support contract in place...


OTOH, you might ask her for details on her computer problem.   Try to help her solve it.   Judge whether she is being honest by how she describes the computer problem.

[2tallbill]

Scam email that I received today. They were fishing for potential suckers.
They were too lazy to put my name in the title or to even give me their name.
I've gotten so many over the years, that I just delete them add them to my spam
list and move on.



Hi. How are you doing? I write to you with my personal email so write to me at any time.
I will be always glad to answer you. I with pleasure will tell to you about me and about my life.
I send you my photo if it is pleasant to you, I will send to you more. I'm from Russia, I hope this is not a problem for us.
I also will be glad to see your photos.



photo was attached but I didn't open it.

[jone]

Hi Beel,

How are you doing.  Please to reply to thes email address.  I have looked at your picture on FaceBook and you are ochen hansom.  I would like to come and visit him.  Please send me mone for visa.

[jone]

(Is that a little more personalized, like you like?)

[ML]

Hi Big Bill,  I heard bolshoi about you on Anti Date.
I think it good thing you always carry the baloon with you in your pocket.  Come in big handy when you want a woman to blow on something.
Despite all the bad things the other womens say about you, I think you bolshoi good man.
I hope we can have good intercourse and maybe meet sometime.
I can only dream that you really are a Big Bill.
SuperNatasha

[2tallbill]

Hi Big Bill,  I heard bolshoi about you on Anti Date.
I think it good thing you always carry the baloon with you in your pocket.  Come in big handy when you want a woman to blow on something.
Despite all the bad things the other womens say about you, I think you bolshoi good man.
I hope we can have good intercourse and maybe meet sometime.
I can only dream that you really are a Big Bill.
SuperNatasha

She is only human, how can she resist?