Internet dating sites. Do I even need to make a joke? This lady calls the police to report she met a man on the Internet. She suspects he might be involved in some sort of identity theft scheme. First of all, the guy's name is completely unbelievable. "Valentine?" Come on! How could you not know something was up? But I guess she's lonely and hoped something would come of it, so she decided to correspond with him.
First he sent her flowers. Then Victoria Secret. Then the boxes started coming. Federal Express delivered ten packages to her door in a four day period of time. All of them were addressed to him, but shipped to her. She called him and he provided a convenient excuse. He had forgotten to take her address out of his browser after sending her the flowers. Not plausible, unless you desperately want companionship.
Then, as if on cue, he called her from Africa and gave her a sob story about how he was stranded with his twelve-year-old son. And without access to his bank. Could she possibly send him some money? She wires the guy a substantial bit of money. Money she'll never get back.
This guy is a real piece of work. The identity theft and financial card fraud are bad enough. But pretending to be interested in this woman just to scam her. You can't get much lower than that. It's not enough to get her money? Have to hurt her emotionally as well? Nice work, Valentine.
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