There are a lot of girls on SW these days who seem to be new to the cam world, so i thought I'd post a thread about a scam someone tried to run on me recently. I knew from the moment I read his profile that he was a scam artist, but I contacted him anyway to prove a point.
He was a brand new member on a site of mine, calling himself "RichLawyerUS"(the account is no longer active, since I reported him, so I think it's okay to post the name.) Red flag #1: 80% of the most generous guys I've ever had the pleasure of working with on cam sites DON'T BRAG about how much money they have, or how much they've spent on girls, ESPECIALLY not in their username, because then they'll just get harassed all day by girls wanting their money. The ONLY reason someone would make a name like that is to get attention from someone desperate.
He said he was a recently divorced lawyer looking for a princess to spoil, and that his last princess got $2,000 a month! Wow, sounds great, right?! He said he also REFUSED to do ay communicating on cam sites, and would only talk on Skype. Red flag #2: Plenty of guys have a problem with the fact that so much of their tips, contributions, and show rates goes to the sites themselves, but they live with it, or they find SAFE ways of spoiling you, such as gift codes, while still maintaining contact through the cam site. The second a guy tells you he has no intentions of spending money or even COMMUNICATING on your site, you need to block him and move on. Once contact goes off-site, there's no protection for you. None. You're completely on your own. If something happens, SM, MFC, etc can't do anything about it becasue none of the communication happened there.
He gives me his Skype and I add him. He asks me if I'm free for a show, I say yes, and he asks me how to pay. I tell him I'd like an Amazon gift code, and he says no. ONLY PAYPAL. I mention that I have CCBill, and that it's safe and secure, but again, he INSISTS ON PAYPAL.Red flag #3: if a guy insists on paypal, he has every intention of scamming you in some way, whether it be what this guy did, or with a chargeback. Now, i was about 90% sure I wasn't getting anything, so i told a male friend what I was doing and asked if I could use his account for the experiment, under the condition that if I actually did get money, we'd split it. So, I give him the information and he tells me he's sent something. What my friend recieves in his e-mail inbox is absolutely hilarious.
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How do i know this is fake, aside from the obvious fact there's no mention of it in my friend's Paypal account?
1, The date isn't even there. it just has a month. Not to mention, the time he sent it was different from the time given in the e-mail. He claimed to have sent the money at 7:54 GMT.
2. Any time someone sends yoy money through Paypal for ANYTHING -Ebay, gift from a family member, etc - it comes from [email protected], NOT [email protected]. But, again, you shouldn't be accepting Paypal for shows anyway!
3.Barclays is a British bank currently embroiled in a HUGE scandal over fixing interest rates. I highly doubt anyone that works for the company would be supid enough, especially RIGHT NOW, to try buying a cam show online using A COMPANY ACCOUNT.
4. He told me he was a lawyer, but this says it came from the Human Resources department at Barclays!
5. if I had received something from Paypal, it would have had my friend's name in it somewhere. this has nothing of the sort.
So, I went back to Skype and played it cool. I said "Oh, the e-mail says it'll take up to 24 hours for the money to clear! We'll do the show tomorrow!". He told me he wouldn't be on tomorrow, or the next day, and that I should just "forget it" and refund him when it clears. He then signed off.
He signed on again today, and I decided to confront him.
[3:05:19 PM] Marpico Lorenzo: hii
[3:06:13 PM] Pearl Forester: Hi.
[3:06:22 PM] Pearl Forester: You sent me a fake e-mail.
[3:06:25 PM] Pearl Forester: How do you feel?
[3:06:34 PM] Marpico Lorenzo: what??
[3:06:46 PM] Pearl Forester: Did you really thyink i was going to fall for something that didn't even have THE DATE AND TIME in it?
He blocked me at that point.
So, what did we learn today?
You must ALWAYS have your guard up, and you must ALWAYS make sure e-mails you recieve are legitimate.
DON'T' take a relationship off-site unless a guy has proven to you that he is serious about being a regular customer and has spent real money on you.
DON'T ACCEPT PAYPAL.
USE YOUR BRAIN. If something sounds too good to be true, it is. We're all adults here, so there's no reason for anyone to fall for such a terrible attempt as a scam as this.
Oh - and he wasn't American. His Skype profile said he lived in France.



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