After a long time of emotional – unavailability, I started my quest to look to go out on a date again. It has been seven years, back in 2005 when I had my heart broken – wow! Seven years of wallowing.
As soon as I introduced myself to the android and its numerous dating apps!
Along with the reputable dating sites like Match and E-harmony, I decided to explore on these free dating apps myself.
I re-activated my profile visibility on the Tagged.com site connected to a social network app named HI5 just for 5 minutes. The number of emails I received - were tremendous as they were for about 85% all about sexual solicitation. After I realized my mistake, I decided to delete the emails and opened a view here and there. On the way, I came across two emails – both with pictures of Caucasian military men “looking for love”. Consequently, I read both of them and deleted one, but the other one stood out for some reason and I responded to it because this picture of the this soldier had a great smile on it, although it was a small unclear picture. As soon as in a few seconds I received a response from this person calling himself Fran C. I told “him” that I do not give strangers any of my personal information.
Over the course of 2 weeks we exchanges small talk over the chat and I mistakenly revealed my trip to my brother in Albany NY. After exchanging another few days of chats, Fran C asked me my email address and he insisted that he could not talk about personal stuff over the HI5 chat but is willing to do so over email. I took a chance and I did. Soon he requested to add me to Yahoo messenger. He send me pictures of himself and he gave me his name as Caleb Aning (Author’s note: at that time, I had no idea that “Aning” was a Ghanaian name originating from Accra’s Ga speaking tribes – Ghana, West African).
Another week went by and on my birthday, I got the day off and spent most of my time lonely in my room. Suddenly, Caleb Aning buzzed me on the Yahoo Messenger App – I ‘ve downloaded on my android phone. We chatted over yahoo for 5 hours and my pineal gland must have excreted a bunch of the love hormone Oxytocin – Is this how people fall in love over the Internet. Immediately, I started imagining the image of the photos he did send me, and the way he interacted with me over Yahoo messenger. He claimed to me that he lived in upstate, Albany (distancing himself from me after I disclosed my location was in NYC). Soon after that, my inquisitive questions about him started to rise, of which of many he ignored answering:
· Describe your surrounding in Albany, NY – (NOTE: IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK)
After a few days, Caleb Aning (the fake military who is really a Ga speaking Sakawa-Boy E-scammer from Ghana) text me that he has to face lawyers in Ghana to release some gold he inherited from his diseased father, but because he is not a native African but a Caucasian soldier he is supposed to get married first and then he can take the gold.
· I asked him to give me a telephone number in Albany, so I could call him and talk to him in person (he refused and said that he needed to travel to Africa and told me to wait a few days) – (NOTE: IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK)
Finally Caleb emailed me his phone number, which I apparently tried but the reply I got was that the telephone line was restricted.
· ALERT!!! – Caleb Aning used yahoo messenger on a LAPTOP apparently with a non-registered ISP address to continue communicating with me over Yahoo messenger. When I asked to try video calling – his excuse was that his old laptop computer freezes up if he attaches the video camera.
At this point, I became highly suspicious that this was a scam – but to confirm this – I played this out by pretending to be a sheepy victim.
The FINALE happened! Finally he asked me to pose as his bride in a proxy marriage, asked my exact address and money for shipment for the gold. I laughed and told me – yeah! I gotcha Mr. CON RIGHT!!!
WOW! I reported him to the FBI –E scam website and blocked “him” from yahoo messenger! Not trusting that tool again.
As conclusion - I make out that the best scams are the E-romance Scammers - know how to manipulate and rubbing us in with our own imagination and our precious pineal glands for romance and bonding!!! Bad deal for the clueless!!
I have to admit that at the time I was communicating with this fake US soldier, alias Sakawa Con Boy - I felt remarkably focused thanks to the oxytocin my brain was producing. That's how people who are in love feel and are willing to "give".
Booo Hoo!!!
Ain't love scams precious?!





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