This letter arrived in my dating mailbox. Since I am a woman and this is the site of a woman, to say I was confused put it mildly.
***Hi, Dear, I pray that this email meets you in good health. I really enjoyed reading your profile & everything you said about yourself,I think we have a lot in common & would be really nice to know you more.I live in GA but I came for a visit to my daughter’s house here in Salt Lake and I’m using her match profile to write you so don’t border writing her back.Besides, she said her account will be expiring today and that she has found someone from match too and will not subscribe again, she was even the one that encouraged me to write you after I read your profile and found interest in you.
I am a 64 years old White/Caucasian man and I want to find someone to be happy with,someone to spend the rest of my life with & give all of the love I have in my heart to share with a life partner,I just want anything I get myself into at this time of life to be the last relationship of my life that would last FOREVER!
You can write me back to my personal email, ++++++(AT)yahoo(DOT)com so that I can send you my pictures from there and write you more about me. I look forward to hearing from you. Signed +++++
Maybe, just maybe, I might have thought this was real except I received an impassioned plea from another woman who was (pay attention to her description) 74, retired, and in her profile evidently had no wish to return to work. Yet, she was begging me to contact HER BOSS, who evidently fell madly in love with me just as the other lady’s daddy had.
Suddenly I am getting pleas from all over asking me to please, please, please go offline with Match.com and contact Daddy, Boss, Ex-husband, a Male Friend, etc., who are smitten with my glorious 5’2″ overweight body – not to mention my gorgeous face with the glasses and crooked smile.
I had no idea I am a Helen of Troy look-alike or possibly Cleopatra come back from the dead. No man can resist me…except the ones legitimately on the dating site.
Please, women and men, do not fall for this scam. It is the latest I have found on the sites and although it did give me a good laugh, those falling for it could get their savings wiped out. If a man or woman isn’t willing to be on their own site, keep in contact with you on the site for a while, there is usually a most unpleasant reason why.
***Any misspellings and punctuation errors are left in as they were in the original letter.