Single's Library scam???

[Shy Tall Guy]

I just got an email from someone who had read my ad on Yahoo Personal's, and she sounds interesting, but three things kind of bug me:

1) She sent an email to my email account, rather than to my Personal's mail box. For someone who professes to know very little about computers, she sure figured out how to get to my true email address easily enough. Yahoo personals does not provide that info; you must go through their system - you cannot email someone directly from the info provided there. Granted, someone computer literate enough could correctly guess that your add name may also be an email address at Yahoo, but that is a guess. Also, they could look me up in the profiles on Yahoo, but again - this person did not put themselves across as someone who would know to do that.

2) She gave me a phone number to call. Besides the fact that most people wouldn't give out their numbers in an unsolicited email, I find it interesting that it is two numbers short.and the area code wasn't right or it was for WA DC, not WA state (202 instead of 206). Either way - not enough numbers to dial.

3) She had a photo at www.singleslibrary.com - which was fine. However, she didn't want me to send an email reply to the address she had sent the email from, she want me to send her one through Single's Library. Okay, fine - I signed up, looked at her photo, then tried to send her an email through Single's Library.

Bam! Go right to a screen wanting money! To be fair, Yahoo requires you become a paying member to reply to ads too, but this just seems all to convenient to me; the email when she didn't have my email addy, the too short phone number so I can't call her, then the lead in to Single's Lib.

So... is this a scam, or just a set of coincidences?

Am I being paranoid?

 

[Guru]

 

[p_p_man]

I've been getting a series of e-mails from someone called Elga...

I've deleted all the others without opening them but I've just had my sixth with the comment "My last e-mail before I go".

You're not paranoid, just very cautious as you should be...

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Re: I've been getting a series of e-mails from someone called Elga...

I've deleted all the others without opening them but I've just had my sixth with the comment "My last e-mail before I go".

You're not paranoid, just very cautious as you should be...

I assume "Elga" is someone you don't know.

I am willing to take people at face value - until they ask me for money. Then I start wondering about the little clues. If it isn't an innocent mistake on someone's part, then it is a clever ruse to get someone to sign up to Single's Library.

The fact that she stated she couldn't figure out how to attach a photo to her email, yet could figure out how to get my email addy when it wasn't publish, plus the rest (invalid phone number, don't reply to the sending email addy, then needing to pay the membership fee to reply), was just a little too coincidental.

I did reply via email - we'll see if she replies in turn.

If it is a scam, then it is surely a scam by Single's Library and one that people should know about. Anybody that would run such a scam would probably be willing to do other things with your credit card number.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Re: Re: I've been getting a series of e-mails from someone called Elga...

I did reply via email - we'll see if she replies in turn.

If it is a scam, then it is surely a scam by Single's Library and one that people should know about. Anybody that would run such a scam would probably be willing to do other things with your credit card number.

Just an update.

I have come to the conclusion that this was indeed a scam; several weeks later I haven't heard a peep from this person and it seems like too much of a setup not to be a scam.

There may be another scam in the works - we'll see how this one turns out. It seems innocent enough, but too good to be true, and there may be a commercial angle to it.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

This is why I think men should never place personal ads on line, but meet women the old fashioned way -- titty bars.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

This is why I think men should never place personal ads on line, but meet women the old fashioned way -- titty bars.

LOL!

You meet a better quality of woman there huh? One that is not interested in the commercial side of the relationship?

Seriously, I think online personal ads are a good idea, one I wished I had exploited some years ago. Unfortunately some people try to scam others when they are somewhat vulnerable.

Fortunately for me, when I see money come into play red flags are raised and I exercise much greater care.