Hello Irina,
How are you? I wondering if you could help me with this and perhaps provide me some advice or recommendations. I meet a women online and she lives in Nigeria, she lives with her mum and works for a fashion desinger. We been commicating for about 7 months. Everything seems so genuine and real but it is still hard to tell at this point. I have mentioned that I could fly over there to meet her and she agreed and provided me her home address and her work address. On the other hand she wants to come to the US and she agreed to pay for her travel documents and I will buy the airline tickets. During this period, the only time she asks for money is maybe once a month or so to buy food because they have ran out and the amount ranges from $200-300. The plan is for 3-4 month visit on a tourist visa, then return home and plan for a stay visa, so she can work her profession in the US. We have never talked about marriage. But she does say she loves and cares for me and always seems concerned. What do you think? Could this be a scammer? Do you have any sugesstions or recommendations? Or do you need more information to determine a conclusion?
Thanks
Kevin

Hello Kevin,
Maybe I am prejudiced against nigerian women ,but I think that she is a scammer. Women from nigeria have the same problem to come to USA as Russian women , they can't just go there by a tourist visa and so it is a fake. It is favorite profession taken by nigerian scammers. They are often very convincing. They can even talk with their victims by the cam each day. But they are still scammers. Have you checked her email in the internet ? Have you checked the name she has given to you in the Internet?
best regards,
Irina

Hello again Irina,
I hope you dont mind that I write you and ask for your advice, I dont want to be a pest or something like that? Well anyway In your last reply you had asked if I had checked her name on the internet?, can you tell me where I would go to do that search? Im find difficulty in finding even a street map of Nigerian cities on the internet. I did find one agency that would do a background investigation, but they want to charge like $50hour for 8 hours, for a fee of $400, the company was wymoo.com Have you heard of them? Let me ask you another qustion, here is a scenario that I played and this is how it turned out. I had created a new email address with a ficticous name, then I invited my new identity to the womens messenger, she accepted the invitation and we started to talk, I told her I was a doctor in Texas and that I made a lot of money, at first she started to warm-up to me, but after about 10 minute into the chat, all of a sudden her tone changed and she told the person to leave her alone, she told him I have a finacee and his name is kevin, now go away, dont ever come back. Then the new id was deleted. Im just curious, Would that scenario be condusive of a scammer? Would a scammer not want to if the opportunity would arise to scam who ever they can and perhaps scam many people at the same time? or Do scammers try to focus on one person at a time? Thanks again for you advice and quick replies!
Kevin

Hello Kevin,
It is ok. You just go to google.com and type there her name, surname and at the end the word scammer. It seems that first she was ready for the contact, and she began it but then she understood maybe from your speach, from your language that you are you and it made her change her further play. They are often checked in this way and of course have their own tactics to understand this .
best regards,
Irina

Hello Irina,
Another question for you, I have copy of her passport, do you know where I can go to see if it is a valid passport or if it is a fake?
Thanks again

Hello Kevin,
send it to me I will make the checking. Best regards,
irina