Should I help this poor woman?

Should I send her my Social Security number and bank information, just to make sure the transfer is successful?

@NJChicaa Thanks! Copying my license and passport information now.

@TheHorse Yes! Probably a copy of your driver’s license too just in case

Heh. If I gave a best contact number to a scam artist, I'd give the local Sherriff's number.

@Marilynda1225 That is because Pony is well read enough to know the meaning of the word honest...

@TheHorse and of course you have to believe someone who says they're honest right

Oh, I'm sure she's legit. She used the word "honest" in her email.

@JudyEv You know, things like that really confuse me... Many people from all over the world have generous natures. It really doesn't require a scam to fleece people of some money, especially Americans... Believe it or not, I have sent money to various people I've met online. One friend in England was having money problems (but didn't ask for help) so I sent her what Pretty and I could spare. (I talked with her on Whatsapp after I sent her the money. She broke down crying, thanking us for helping her.) Two people I consider friends live in the Philippines. I sent them money after their houses were destroyed in a storm/earthquake. (One's house was destroyed in a storm. The other friend's house was destroyed in an earthquake.) I also have friends in foreign countries who won't accept a penny even as a gift, even when they badly need help... The scammers need to learn to befriend Westerners first, then ask for money. I bet they'd get a lot more than they would by scamming. (Shake my head!)

Miss Mary Morgan sounds like the beginning of a skip rope song! Someone must fall for it or they wouldn't keep doing it.

@TheHorse Yes I guess so. Vince had a request from a little friend from Nepal. She was one of three children in a guest house where he stayed in 2016 but she did virtually all the housework and cooking. After he came home she PMd to ask if he'd buy her a mobile phone but he declined. She has occasionally 'liked' something of his on FB etc but then she asked for $200 for an urgent eye operation. It didn't really ring true so he emailed the US owner of the guest house to try to find out if the appeal was genuine and it isn't. The woman has now married the grandfather of the girl and says by local standards they are well off and there is nothing wrong with her eyes. Westerners must seem so rich to them. It is a great shame. I think she will be a fair bit of trouble over this but we would have helped had it been genuine.

Buwaahaahaa! This post was a scam. Now I've got you! I'm gonna be RICH!

@TheHorse -

@TheHorse congrats

I hope you answered it and gave them (and the FBI) all of your information.

@spiderdust I don't get that many spam calls, but I do still enjoy the emails from Africa. I just miss the ones that compliment me on my well-known honesty and integrity. I am a bit of a sucker for a compliment.

@TheHorse Suspected Spam Caller sure does call an awful lot. Keeps in touch daily!

I feel so...I can't find the word.

@TheHorse yes scam prettyu e videt lol lol

Heh heh. I may be a sucker for a pretty face, but not for scam artists.

@DaddyEvil Well, there could be more fun in store for starters. Evil Grin. I am seriously concerned about Pony. He has been using snotty tissue papers...to clean you know ..his "tush". He lets the snot dry he says. I am so scared the dried snot might cause scratches on his white tush...we can't have a friend screaming and running out of restrooms without pants on, can we? Is it legal in America?

@vandana7 Uhm... is which part of what you said legal, vanny? It is perfectly legal for pony to wipe his scrawny tush with dried snot rags. It is legal for the dried snot to scratch his tush, too. It is legal for pony to scream while he is in the bathroom or while he is outside the bathroom. It would be more entertaining to see pony run out of the bathroom screaming if he forgot his pants and he was in his human guise... Whether pony would be in trouble with the law or not if he left his pants in the bathroom depends on whether @TheHorse was human or pony when he exits the bathroom. Not that I am trying to sell ticket to people interested in witnessing a screaming pony exiting the bathroom, but I do have two left for the front row, center, if you are interested?

Now, how would @TheHorse proposing to Ms. Morgan be of any help to her? I kinda think you might just be trying to marry pony off to anyone who will have him, vanny!

@TheHorse Thanks I was not in Bubblews, instead of those HOT, I will manage with COOL.

@TheHorse So those guys tried that trick, just for $2.8 also! Glad the Horse did not considered them as his mares.

@yugocean I avoided fat Russian guys pretending to be hot Asian teens.

@TheHorse I agree, that it's even better not to reply, so they do not even know if it is a valid email that they reached.

@LadyDuck Actually, Anna, it is not difficult to check to see if an email address is valid. I've used two of these methods before. (I was tracing a friend I had lost contact with.)

I'd be too scared to actually interact with the person. But there ARE scam-baiters out there.

They are all scams, don't even think for a minute that there is any truth in such messages.

Yeah...you lack empathy

You insensitive beast! How could you? Heh.

@TheHorse why are you rude?

Scam.

@TheHorse ........Maybe she has other ideas.

I would have, but she didn't mention "my excellent character" in her email.

@celticeagle Sigh.

Thanks for the rec. Did someone from Nigeria write it?

@TheHorse I really don't know, but it was an epidemic! I think by now just about everybody from Nigeria must be regarded with suspicion.

Heh. I wonder why Nigeria was ground zero for this kind of scam.

@Fleura Heh. If I walked down the street there, would I see everyone as internet scammers?

Heh. I write a post about it. That's it. I don't see them as often as I used to either.

@just4him Mostly because of your excellent character and references?

@TheHorse I'm sure that's the reason. Did I do something wrong then, that my character isn't getting noticed anymore?

One in 10,000 must, or they would stop. I wonder how many they send out.