Monica Lintott, Ph.D.

Here is a tier 12 scammer. I’ve passed through all of the Pedro Pascals, the Todd Rundgren, the Jodie Fister, the Joni Mitchell, many Tom Kiefer s, single misogynists with dogs, the scammer handymen and now I’m on to the Turkish princes. Isn’t this fun? I’ve run the whole gamut. When I was originally scammed almost a year ago out of a small amount of money, I went to my bank and froze all my accounts. I stopped my credit cards, changed my email address and my WiFi provider, bought identity theft protection and got several new routers (none of them worked). My banker had told me to be very careful because as soon as you are scammed, they sell your name to a network and everyone takes a run at you. I wish I had the computer acumen to catch these guys. Romance scammers are easy to spot. They love bomb you and call you “my love” and “dear.” I even called Facebook and the number that was listed tried to extort me out of the contents of my bank account. Be suspicious of anyone on social media or any handyman you might encounter. There are scammers everywhere.

Here is yet another scammer. I got rid of him quickly because he was kind of boring. Notice the poor grammar? The love bombing? The blank space where he just filled in my name? Scammers are getting really lazy lately, aren’t they?