Unsolicited "Lonely Hearts" emails. I know they are a scam, but what's the scammer's method?

Its the sites you visit that have the hackers waiting.

It could be a scammer but most likely a hacker or just someone who is desperate and lonely !!

They are looking for a sucker. Someone that in time will develop “trust”. So when they eventually ask for money you will feel the need to help a “friend”.

I get em too always from young men in senegal hehe

I heard that this kind of thing is a regular industry in some African countries. I tried to outsmart one of them by asking for money. They came back and asked for my bank account number. You can’t win.

@LostInParadise Wow, that’s pretty shameless. Also pretty stupid of them to think you would just hand out that information when asked directly.

I got this email today from the Flutherbot.

“Hiya ETpro,

loveonett wrote to you:

NICE TO MEET YOU.
my name is faith.here is my privet e-mail faithnechwa1@hotmail.com
i will like to know you more. so that i can send you my picture and my detail’s for you to know me more so I am waiting for your mail to my email address below. please don’t chat me here just send me mail and i will get back to you with love.”

The account is already cancelled, so it didn’t take the moderators long to figure out we had a scammer in our midst.

Just for kicks and giggles, I did a search of the screen name. It turned up this on another forum. Same scammer, same MO, just a different pool of potential suckers.