Excellent way to get a date..!!

[iv-tecman]

Just check out this email I got today -

Edit - removed, as it was pointed out, and quite rightfully as well, that what I've done is actually in poor taste and is no longer deemed funny, in fact wasn’t funny at all when put into the right context, or even relevant.

I've still got an active account on match.com, online dating. This has to be the best email I've received from the service to date. Obvious scam, but really. You'd think they would learn to turn the caps lock off before chucking the text through a text translator..... slopply scam, no marks for style..!!

Can't for the life of me though see what they are at first trying to do, I know they pull these scams to get a valid email or something, but this one seems so random..!! Very odd..!! Unless this is real, and then it just makes me wonder what institute this match.com member's just been released from..

 

[iv-tecman]

This is her profile, there are more pictures if you login, all of them seem to be photographs of professional looking oil paintings /portraits..!! That is so odd, never seen that before, saw one profile where they posted up a picture of their passport.. lol

It is just soooo odd... Least she or whoever managed to type in the profile using lowercase.... Etiquette on this one is erm, questionable..

I’d bet this profile is down by the end of the week, emailing everyone, I guess if I replied, I’d get asked for all sorts of private info, even perhaps re-directed to a website asking for me to pay for something, and get scammed..

Half tempted to reply, and see what comedy value I can get out of this one..

 

[iv-tecman]

She's kinda looks manly.

ha ha, match.com transvestite..!!! Argh..!!! Run for the hills... Guess to some that ‘might’ appeal..!!

ROFL

 

[iv-tecman]

From looking at that I can't really see anything that says fake or scam. Looks genuine to me.

You're way too paranoid.



That really doesn't look like something a scammer from Nigeria would write?

I think it's genuine.

Perhaps..?? But, then again I've had a lot of emails that are kinda like this, and I'm always a bit sceptical... Especially without a digital picture of herself that is not an oil painting, that is really odd, isn't hard to get a picture of yourself, heck, just point a mobile phone at yourself, job done..

 

[iv-tecman]

So far, we’ve got –

Average looking tranny, that lives at home with parents, has had professional oil painting portraits commissioned, is a bad speller, likes to shout, perhaps into fast food and erm likes dogging..

Excellent catch… lol

I’m thinking of replying, but I need some good reply material, something that’ll not confuse too much as I have to question the intelligence of this one, just enough to see what I can find out…. Heck, its all done on a double blind email, so whoever this is, won’t get any personal info, unless I’m stupid enough to give it.. Which I won’t..

 

[iv-tecman]

Well from going by her profile she seems quite shy, secluded, living with parents still! It's not suprising she's resorted to a dating website, she also says she's never been married, she reads harry potter too.

She's probably shy and resorted to posting a photo of a photo -

A. because she probably doesn't know how to scan it,
B. because maybe she's so shy that she's only happy with that photo
C. because she's too shy to put up a photo of her posing.

I see your point on being sceptical, but I don't see anything incriminating there.

Apart from maybe the daily diet of Meat and Potatoes!

Ok, points taken... It is actually a little unfair of me to poke fun, she could just be 'very' shy.. It does happen...

I guess online dating if you're shy is one way, but I would recommend to her she improves her first initial email, as it does look at first glance a bit suss..

 

[iv-tecman]

ok ok, I'm feeling a bit guilty with this now, so I'm NOT going to email her 'just' incase this isn't a scam, I do not want to lead the poor lass on. It might give her false hopes...

If she is shy, secluded, and a bit in-experienced the last she needs is someone stringing her along to just get a quick cheap laugh..

However, match.com has seen me get a whole bunch of emails like this, only for the profile to be gone within a week, after they have asked for mobiles, or email addresses etc...I just didn't get the angle on this one, it looked like a scam, it really did...

It was NOT my intention to laugh at some poor lass who just wants to find herself a nice partner.. I wanted to have a laugh at some scammer..!!

Look before you leap now comes to my mind.... And I do appolgise if I've offended anyone with this.... I'm not into cheap /low laughs at the expense of others feelings..... I'm not a total cold hearted man who has no feelings...

Right, feel better now.... Still, she does need some online dating coaching.... Everything about her first email to me was sooo wrong....

 

[iv-tecman]

Why are you being so apologetic? Even if she's genuine she's still clearly an idiot.

I know, but I just didn't want the more 'sensitive' members on the board thinking I'm a total jerk, even if she is a bit - erm simple..!!

 

[iv-tecman]

Pics? i aint joining no dating site to see some dog loving ugly ho

The link got removed; it has been deemed that 'perhaps' it wasn't a scam after all..... It was just another random email I got from match.com that looked like all the others – trying to get personal details, however due to some sensitive and 'soap box' members, I've been soundly chewed out...

Oh come on, I know its hard to appreciate why I thought it was a scam, I mean, if you wanted to send a dating message to someone, you'd at least use a spell checker???

Anyhow, no matter what I say now, I'm tarnished as low life..... Still, we all make mistakes...

Oh, and I know surfer perhaps can't read this now - get down off your soap box, I bet 'you've' never jumped to a bad conclusion in your whole life..!! Can't comment in the 'he smells' remark, thankfully never had the displeasure of standing close enough to him to find out...

 

[iv-tecman]

I took the email text out, her profile has been removed from this thread. I'm going to send a polite, and trust me it will be polite and very nicely worded email thanking her for her time taken to read my profile, and to email me.

I thought about making a polite suggestion to 'not' use the caps lock to email members, perhaps but I don't want to condescend her, if this is real, and it seems a majority now believe it to be real, being this shy is going to mean she is bound to be very sensitive...

Gawd, I do get myself into some pickles.. Me and my mouth, friends are always telling me it'll land me in trouble one day.. Think that day is swiftly on its way...!!

 

[iv-tecman]

+1

Maybe it has taken every once of her courage to seek out somebody and all the people here do is take the mickey.

Sorry but I don't think it is funny, nor am I on my high horse!

Totally agree... It was me making a 'wrong' assumption, thinking it was a scam. If nothing else, take advice from my own signature, and advance my own knowledge...!!

Online dating does take courage, it all just looked like it was thrown into a translator, I mean.... It all looked so wrong to me, and I’ve had a few scams that looked the same..

I really should have picked up on her talking about pets etc... that should've been enough to allow me to make a much more informed assessment....

Anyhow, I've already apologised, numerous times now. I have in fact learnt from this, as I always do..!! Lesson in 'tact'..!!

 

[iv-tecman]

I'm guessing it's a case of "Dude joins match.com. Dude gets email from girl. Girl is not the OMGAWESOME hot girl that Dude was under the false pretense he would get attention from. Dude assumes to be a scam, because it is not an OMGAWESOME hot girl. Dude posts on forum. Bandwagon runs over Girl." situation.

Hey don't you be so sure with that statement.... It wasn't a case her not being 'OMGAWESOME' hot lass emailing me that prompted me to think it was a scam... In fact, some REALLY hot looking girls have sent me emails that are obviously scams.... So, this wasn't it at all... It was the way the email was just so badly written and all in caps.... I know, I know, it certainly wasn't grounds to think it was a scam.... However, after reading soooo many scam emails on match.com, I just automatically assumed... I'd say about 90% of contact for me on match has been via winks, lasses rarely send first emails, they normally send a wink, and what for the bloke to lead with a first email... Normally... Only scammers seem to send badly written, formatted emails first.

Anyow I have even had chats on match.com with lasses that IMO might be considered as average looking, even took one of them on a date... nothing became of it, but still... I'm not shallow, I'm not exactly 'Brad Pit' myself..!

I'm trying to justify myself here, obviously a bit of guilt is overcoming me at the moment.... I am now soooo glad I didn't email trying to take the mick, that really would have been cruel, but if it had been a scammer, then the emails to take the mick would have been just.. Agree??