This really helped me. I got the exact same story of an instant message.
Definitely a scammer, her Roommates.com name is LGlover82 Yahoo ID
banita76@yahoo.comHer story is similar to this. We were chatting on yahoo messanger and I tried to confirm her story and came up with this, someone typed it on scamvictimsunited.com and it was the exact same story she typed on the messanger
I asked for specifics, what hospital or lab she will work with. Where will her job be located in the city. She had no specifics so I called her out. She said thanks for the insult and I deleted her and got out of the conversation.
Here is our entire IM conversation...
banita76 BUZZ!!!
banita76 Hello
snowsuesbug hi
banita76 how are you doing?
snowsuesbug hot
snowsuesbug trying to not put the AC in the window, but not sure if I can take it much longer
banita76 Ok
banita76 how was ur day been so far?
snowsuesbug fine, its my "sunday" I worked on the yard but had to keep taking breaks to come inside because its cooler, went grocery shopping, nothing fancy
banita76 I see
snowsuesbug and you?
banita76 thanks for getting back to me
snowsuesbug no prob
snowsuesbug I just cleaned the whole place, wiped down everything in the spare room
banita76 ok
snowsuesbug my old roommate left a lot of stuff, all he left with was a car load, no furniture or big things
banita76 ok
snowsuesbug so what's your situation, what are you looking for and why are you looking?
banita76 looking for a room as i ve posted it on roommates
snowsuesbug yeah, besides that. LIke any specifics?
snowsuesbug why are you looking, like are you inbetween leases, are you moving to town, did you get kicked out? there's lots of reasons, I'm just curious
banita76 I am a Pathologist by profession, presently work for Stairway to Health - Registered Organizations under the inspection of W.H.O/UNICEF as a microbiologist/Researcher; I do more of humanitarian work which is out of my real profession.
banita76 live and work in canada presently...
banita76 I have a special assignment that will last upto 12months.
banita76 so am looking to sign 12months lease
snowsuesbug ok
snowsuesbug I don't mean to be rude at all, but there are a LOT of spammers with that type of story, they are always from out of town, usually work in humanitarian work, usually from France strangely enough. I've never gotten one on Roommates.com but there are a lot on craigslist
banita76 I see
snowsuesbug every hear of that?
snowsuesbug I mean ever hear of that
banita76 not sure..as am not familiar with craiglist
snowsuesbug its a free ad site for anything
snowsuesbug from roommates to pets to cars to jobs
banita76ok
snowsuesbug So Stairway to Health is a canadian organization, what are they doing in the USA?
snowsuesbug will you be with a hospital? if so which one?
snowsuesbug I'm pretty close to Froedhert and not far from a lot of others
banita76 Hospitals and Laboratories
snowsuesbug Do you know where abouts in Milwaukee?
banita76 the venue will be posted to me along with my final confirmation of my employment letter
snowsuesbug You are a spammer, if you weren't you would have specifics and your story is all over the web. I'm smarter than that, sorry. Find a real job
banita76 thanks for the insult