Frumpy directed me to this thread and I read it with interest - I was too approach by a scammer on Facebook. I'm still recovering from the shock - I've never heard of such romscams, really and I never thought anyone would be targeting me - I'm in my thirties, don't come from a wealthy country, I don't use any dating websites. The scammer just sent me a private message one day, which didn't really raise any suspicions back then - I made a lot of authentic friends in this way, real people who I exchange opinions on some boards, people I play games with. I was quite unaware of the risk involved as I'd never had any bad experience in the past. I even sent him my own pics, which I'm afraid they will use to scam someone else. At first, it seemed like an innocent conversation, we exchanged emails and PM. I started to grow suspicious later, when he mixed up some details, sent me the same email twice. He claimed to be an oil engineer, with dual British/American citizenship, travelling to offshore places to work in the rig

A widower of course, who first claimed to be childless, then magically conjured up a teen daughter. He claimed to have PhD in chemistry - I guess he wanted to impress me since I work at university and have a few degress. The language, spelling - atrocious - and literally no punctuation made me really suspicious (unlikely at this level of education) but I was silly enough to give him my phone number - then I became pretty sure sth's wrong since the guy sounded nothing like British nor American. Oh, surely he fell in love instantly and wanted to marry me after a couple of weeks of exchanging emails

I find this experience scary - I'd never suspect anything like that could happen to me. I had a very vague idea of guys preying on dating websites. But on Facebook? The place where you meet people all the time? So outrageous. And the scammers do a very good job - they will spend weeks trying to gain your trust. I'm not a gullible person and I am careful when talking online - well, I can pose for a royal princess and who can check me out? The scammers tread lightly and they act slowly - mine sent me scans of fake passports, contracts, house documents to gain my trust. Because I claimed the economic situation in my country is poor, salaries low, etc. he even offered to send me some money

(which I declined, of course). Finally, he asked about money too - the same story, an engineer in the rig in Saudi Arabia, and there's an accident, and he needs to pay for workers' medical bills and because of "high security mandate" he can't access his funds until he comes back to the UK. So, as my future wife, he asks me to be loyal and prove my support to him and send him money via Western Union to some Dubai address
Of course I didn't send him any money (though he kept pressuring!). Instead I started googling, and though I couldn't find his email/photos anywhere else, I came across bits of those love letters he sent me and I came across this website, where I learned how to track email IP. It turned out the scammers use proxies - those suspicious IP changing ones so I mostly got US/UK location, but I ended up with Nigeria twice!
Here his FB profile:
http://www.facebook.com/david.marcus.731" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And here's my own thread with pics and scans:
http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewto ... 73#p256173" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;