OMFG THE SCAMMERS ARE AT IT AGAIN!!!!

Remember the guy I started talking to last week that was supposed to be in Wichita? Ha! Well, it took a few days, but he “confessed” he is in Dubai and won’t be back in the States for 7 weeks. Like I believe that either. Wants me to keep talking to him so we can get to know each other without complications. What the hell does that even mean? Besides which, I am a linguist, and his story doesn’t match up with his language. For instance, he says that he grew up in Toronto and even if you grew up speaking French and English, by now, after all these years, you would be using contractions a lot more than he did and you would not use that tip off phrase “I will like to….” that always says you are not a native English speaker, which if you grew up in Canada, you still would be a native English speaker, even if you learn to speak French, which all Canadians do.

Even if this guy was on the level, there is no way I am sitting around waiting for someone I’ve never met for that long. Especially when I just set a personal boundary of talking to a guy for two weeks and if I don’t have a date to meet face-to-face in that time, I am done with him. I have no idea what this guy’s end game is but I am not playing it.

Then today, on Match.com a 50-year-old guy who says on his profile that he is from a nearby town sends me a nice message and I decide to reply. He tells me that he is in Norfolk, VA until the end of the month (-1 point). Then when I ask what he is doing there he explains that he is an independent marine engineer working on a contract there, and I’m thinking to myself – oh right, here we go – because any time you hear that someone who claims to live in the Midwest and is a marine engineer, does that make any sense at all to you??? If you are legitimate and work in the marine sciences of any kind, you are going to live on the coast. My profile says I am a college professor and I just told you I am. How stupid do you think I am? Just because I am over the age of 60, do you think I have lost my marbles? Pull the other leg!! But I play along just to see what his story is and how far he will go before pulling the plug.

It doesn’t take very long. He tells me his short sob story of why he was in the small town nearby. He came there to nurse his sick mother as she died. She was American and his father was German and Germany was where he was born. (This of course, always helps cover any mistakes scammers make with their English, being foreign-born.) So, he just stayed after that. Then he asks how long I have been on the site. And this is where I hit him with my honesty. I tell him I have been on there for a long time and that I am about to get off because it has been a waste of my time and money. That the older I get the harder it is to find someone compatible because I now have much stronger boundaries and standards. And Boom! He blocks me! And Boom! I report his ass!!

THE STALKER RETURNS

Just when I thought I was safe and he had given up, the stalker appeared knocking at my door Friday afternoon. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth. I thought at first it was my brother coming over to pick up a package that has been misdelivered to my house, but something about the knock was wrong. I also caught a glimpse of a white car outside in the driveway, so luckily I looked through the front door window before I unlocked and opened my door, because there he was, on my front step. I yelled “Go away!” and he knocked again, so I yelled “Go Away!!” louder and then just turned away and went back to the bathroom and calmly finished my tooth-cleaning routine. Then I sat down on the toilet and let go ( my usual response to stress) and called my brother to tell him what had happened. He asked again what kind of car the guy had so he could be on the lookout. When I went out the next day, I found a half-smoked cigarette on the sidewalk. I don’t know if he smoked it then, or if he came back another time. I don’t honestly think he would do me harm, but I do wish he would just give up. I mean I don’t think he cares for me that much. I just think he is mad that I pulled the plug on the relationship and that he lost control of me (or so he thinks that he ever had it). But he needs to freaking get over it. And move on.

IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE FOR ME?

Honestly, I wonder if I will ever find anyone. After reading the article above about how my age group is targeted by scammers, I realize that I am just going to get slammed over and over by them on dating websites because apparently women my age are just lonely and STUPID!!!! DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO STRANGERS YOU HAVE NEVER MET OVER THE INTERNET LADIES!!!!!! NEVER!!!! Sorry to call you stupid, but if you ever do that, seriously, you are. Don’t be taken in by whatever sob story they give you. It’s not true. It’s a lie. Just tell them the truth. You are a smart intelligent woman and you are not at all taken in by their scam and you are reporting their ass right now to the agency in the story above or to the website you are on, just like I do every time. Let’s get those scumbags off of there and let’s let other women know not to be taken in by these lowlifes.