{"id":3779,"date":"2019-03-13T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/blog\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T23:29:08","slug":"nigerian-romance-scam-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/nigerian-romance-scam-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance Scam Victim Thought She Was Dating Greg Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to this woman’s story as this victim thought she was talking to Greg Reid<\/a>, but later found the truth of who she was talking to online.<\/p>\n

Vera’s Nigerian Romance Scam Story<\/h2>\n[aesop_video src=”youtube” id=”aLd5CLrmpOc” width=”100%” align=”center” disable_for_mobile=”off” loop=”off” controls=”off” autoplay=”off” mute=”off” viewstart=”off” viewend=”off” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n

We jumped on a Skype video call<\/strong> with a lady named Vera, who thought she was talking to Greg S. Reid<\/strong> online for over a year, but in reality, she was talking to a Nigerian scammer.<\/p>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/catfish-story-vera.png” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”off” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”inplace” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n

They began messaging each other online back and forth on Facebook Messenger<\/strong> and eventually moved on to texting.<\/p>\n

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They went on just talking, and they would make phone calls, but he never wanted to do a video call. He always had an excuse.<\/p>\n

For example,<\/strong> the scammer would say that the camera was broken, or his phone wasn’t working just right.<\/p>\n

That’s when Vera became suspicious of him. She would think:<\/p>\n[aesop_quote type=”pull” background=”#ffffff” text=”#000000″ width=”100%” align=”center” size=”1″ quote=”So I thought okay, well he was an electrician, supposedly by trade and I thought, well if he’s an electrician, he should be able to afford a phone.” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”]\n

Eventually, he agrees to video chat with her:<\/strong><\/p>\n[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#ffffff” text=”#000000″ width=”100%” align=”center” size=”1″ quote=”You know, me just thinking still it was a white male from Ohio. Well, he turns his camera on and this isn’t being mean, but it was quite funny at the time, because I’m like, all I can see is the whites of your eyes, you know, you’ve heard that saying before too you know? And I said, turn the flashlight on your phone and then he says it doesn’t work.” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”]\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nigerian-scammer-video-chat.png” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”off” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n

They are not in communication to this day. Vera blocked the scammer.<\/p>\n

In Vera’s words:<\/strong><\/p>\n[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#ffffff” text=”#000000″ width=”100%” align=”center” size=”1″ quote=”I hate that there are stories out there where women, I mean, thousands and thousands of dollars, and you see these and it’s just not in Nigeria.” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”]\n

According to Vera<\/strong>, you a red flag that if the person you’re talking to online is a scammer is by paying attention to their choice of words and they’ll fall “in love” with you very fast.<\/p>\n[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#ffffff” text=”#000000″ width=”100%” align=”center” size=”1″ quote=”It’s just like, oh I love you; I love you; I’m like hey, I’ve only been talking to you for a couple of hours.” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”]\n

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They might ask, have you eaten<\/em>? They’ll put “eating” instead of eaten<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Vera also asked his catfisher if he went to school in the United States or somewhere else and call them out on their accent.<\/p>\n

They also have no idea, where the cities or States are. They’ll say “I’m from Texas”<\/strong>, and then they’ll say, “well is that in California?”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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They don’t do their research well, but you can so you won’t become a victim like Vera by using Social Catfish’s reverse image search<\/a> to verify the identity of the person you’re talking to online.<\/p>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/scf-image-search.png” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”off” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n

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