Ok so this past week, I received a reply to a message I had sent a young woman on the POF dating app. She asked me for my phone number. That should have been a red flag, but instead I was excited and gave it to her. We talked at little the first night but it was hard to get a lot out of her and she kept saying "Hey" a lot, so I was beginning to think she was a bot. However the next day after a couple false starts, we started talking. She asked for a photo and I gave to. She gave one, and told me I was sexy. I was quite faltered and asked when we could meet. We settled on the next day at a local Starbucks that was actually quite far from her supposed location (30-40 mins). Then she asked me after a little more conversation for nudes, and stupidly I agreed because nobody had ever talked to me that way before. She was not much for conversation after that except for a greeting in the morning. However, that afternoon I got 3 calls, first 2 from her phone, but I could not hear that well, and then from her "father". This number was also hard to hear. He said that he had been shocked at what he had seen I had sent his daughter and we had a rather long conversation about what I was thinking and had meant. However, he then informed me that his "daughter" was underage, and asked if I had know and told me I had to be careful who I interacted with on dating sites. Apparently his "wife" wanted to go straight to the authorities to report me, but he had intervened. So after talking with me and understanding that I was a decent guy with a lot going on for myself as he put it, he got off the phone to talk to his wife and convinced her that if I paid for half of their daughter's therapy session, $2250, his wife would agree to leave the authorities out of it. She was apparently also a past rape victim. He told me she was recognized as partially responsible and was also being punished. It was, in general, hard to hear him on the phone.
So I agreed to the plan and paid the first 400 that day by putting cash on green dot moneypak cards bought at Walgreens. At that point I started to this this was fishy. He was very cryptic about what I was to do until I arrived at Walgreens and then he insisted that I put the money on two cards, although it would have fit on one. I then gave him the pin by phone. The next day he told me put the next 400 on two more cards, but this time for some reason he wanted me to put it on so that one card had 150, and the other card had 250. Again, no explanation.
I should mention that to this point, and since then, we had not exchanged names although I had given my first name to his "daughter". He never called me by it that I can recall, just "sir". I have also not yet spoken on the phone with anyone else but him. We agreed that I would give the rest of the money after a little over a weeks time, perhaps by Western Union, and that after I had done so, he would get to me (somehow) a signed contract clearing me from any future legal trouble about the whole thing. On the whole he was very reluctant (on account of his wife) to ever meet me in person although he apparently would to get me the contract if necessary.
However, that night, I noticed on my OkCupid account for the first time a profile composed of the image the "daughter" had originally sent me of herself, shown below.
Moreover, she had changed her location across the State of Maine, and had logged on (now multiple time) that day. It had sounded like to me, that if she had been real, her parents would have tried to restrict her access to further interaction with online dating?
Then by google searching that image, I found that she had had four different locations in ND on the Zoosk dating site all with that same photo. The only location the site actively places her at the moment is Jamestown, although Napoleon, Granville, and Sykeston are all listed in the search results (presumably as past profile locations). Her name had changed there to Brittany in ND. (I leave the other name blank for the moment in case she is real and innocent).
Lastly on the table, both phone numbers father and daughters are listed as from Ohio.
Father: 513-253-8372
Daughter: 304-602-4080
So what are the chances this is a scam meant to lure people into unknowingly sending nudes to an underage girl so that they can be threatened with being reported unless they pay. That there is no daughter, just commandeered photos, and a really smart plot? Or is that less likely and should I just pay and not be that stupid again. (If that is the case, please remove this message for both party's privacy!)
