PunkInDrublic said:
Isabella_deL said:
If this is a scam she may well have spoken to you about all these things. It may not have been an intentional scam. She may just have enjoyed chatting and may have seen a situation arise and may have taken advantage of it. It's often not black and white. She may have been able to give logic to the situation, seeing as you'd had so much free skype time she could have felt like the money was payment. Whether that logic is right or wrong, it may not have been as calculated as her sucking you in with conversation and planning the scam from the start. Or it may have been. I don't know what situation this girl is in, who she is or what her intentions were so it's impossible to say.
haha I knew this was coming. Guy gets scammed and models make up excuses to justify terrible behavior. Vintage camgirl.
I was not justifying behaviour, I was explaining that in these situations they are not always as black and white as: Camgirl meets member, deliberately manipulates him for 6 months spending a whole loads of extra time with him (for free I'm assuming?), convinces him that she wants to move in with him, convinces him that he needs to sent her $8k, then drops off the radar straight after (or in this case bans him) and takes the cash and moves onto the next dude.
Yes, this does occasionally happen, but 6 months is a long time to spend so much time chatting and spending all that time. Now if that time were paid for then that story makes more sense, but if the time were for free I would bet that there is more to this story than that.
I'm not justifying scamming of any kind, I'm not saying if it were different that taking the money would be right. All I'm saying is that we do not know what happened, we do not know the relationship or this woman's reasons. Even the craziest stalker could come here and sound like a kind, reasonable, concerned, regular dude. We have no idea if there's more to this story than he's telling. We don't even know if the $8k was actually just in tokens over the last 6 months for skype time. It wouldn't be the first time a member has pulled that sort of thing.
I'm not saying this guy is a crazy stalker, but as far as we know, he could be. These situations are rarely this black and white.
The only thing that I know about this dude is that he got very close to a camgirl, I'm not sure how old she is, but if she lives with her parents she's potentially fairly young, that he's had a fuck load of skype time with this girl and feels like he has a connection with her, and that he was willing to move a complete stranger he'd flirted with over the internet but had never met into his house, oh and he sent her $8k to do so.
Now he doesn't seem like someone who is really stupid, but that was one hell of a stupid thing to do, so either he is coming across as very different than he actually is, or there is more to this story than he is letting on.
Then seeing as upon her cutting him out of her life he comes to a forum that she frequents and very unsubtly explains his situation, knowing that she will read it and know it's about her, I would think that he's no stranger to manipulating people himself. Maybe he is just hoping for acknowledgement from us, but what advice can we really give in this situation? I don't think he's here for advice. He's here because whoever this girl is has cut him from her life and he wants everyone to act sorry for him on the site she goes on and make her look like a twat. Maybe this girl is a twat, I don't know, maybe he's totally in the right, but this is still what he's doing.