Dating Taiwanese 24 years younger

Life Dating & Relationships
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Welcome to the 2020s! Or what the good people at Juice Media memorably call the great enshittification.

Guy

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I had a young lady from Taiwan
Fo’ sure not a Nigerian man
She sent me a gift
So it can’t be a grift
You’se just jealous cos she’s my OnlyFan.

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43

It’s a scam.

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44

There once was a dirty old man
Who fell for a catfishing scam
When he finally caught on
His money was gone
So he went back to dating his hand

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45

There was an old Yankee codger,
Who tired of pulling his own todger,
He fell hook, line and sinker,
For some Taiwanese tinker,
Who was really a scammer called Roger.

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What’s going on with all these flags?? @olm

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48

Someone got objective?

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There’s a serial flagger on the loose.

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Indeed. I got flagged for a neutral comment.
I don’t care, as I don’t flag others.

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This scam is so common now…shes going to eventually tell you about her investments and suggest you also invest once ur close

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Maybe OP sent her (him?) a link to the thread? :joy:

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54

Yeah, I’ve heard something similar too. Although it was a male scammer trying to scam a successful business woman. He pretended to also be a successful businessman in Hong Kong, but keeps putting off actually meeting face to face, and around half a year later he asks for some loans.

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Did it work? It’s surprising how many women fall for this sort of thing too. You’d think they’d have a more finely-calibrated bullshit detector - considering most women don’t have the “thinking with the small head” problem, or at least not in quite the same way men do - but they don’t.

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The scammer finally scheduled a face to face meeting, saying he’s coming to Taiwan, and then a few days before his supposed flight to Taiwan, he called to say something came up, and unless he can get the money right away, he might not be able to take the trip. She was about to send the money, but then her friends talked her out of it. She confronted him on parts of the story that didn’t make sense, and that ended the scam.

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Romance scams are so horrible.

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58

Indeed. Romance proper is already challenging enough!

Guy

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59

Neither are awesome. I prefer simple love, care and honesty. No need for a show and fake expectations.

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Please don’t flame me for lacking a link on this - but I recall seeing some stats that women are in the majority as victims of romance scams.

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I saw something saying 70 percent of victims are men.

Edit: women make up the majority of romance scams

Edit 2: just read something else saying the majority of catfishers are men and the majority of victims are men.

Whats the difference beween catfishing and romance scams?

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Some stats here but not including gender

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2023/02/romance-scammers-favorite-lies-exposed

Quote is female targeting:
“ Claiming to be on a faraway military base is the most popular excuse, but “offshore oil rig worker” is another common (and fake) occupation. “

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