Showing posts with label Scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scams. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2009

I need a pick me up...

We were contacted by another scammer.

So in trying to lift my spirits and restore my hope I found these great videos about adoption.






Sunday, February 15, 2009

Feeling Down

Life is a little tough at our house right now. It started to occur to me last night what could have been. Then today they had a song about mothers and I started to cry because of about an hour this week I thought I would have a reason to celebrate Mother's Day this year. I'm trying to not think about it, but I am still sad.
Oh, and kitchen water pipe has a leak and our garage is full of water.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Congratulations to us!

Here is what we know:

She is is due May 25th.

She is 41.

She lives in Tennesse

She is married, but he husband is all for adoption also.

She already has 2 full grown children and 2 grandchildren.

She has a medical condition and knows she won't live to raise this child.

Oh, and she is all full of lies! (Seriously, couldn't you see the red flags!)

I know I had everyone going, but I am trying to share it like it happened so you can feel my joy and then my pain.

I was at work when my cell phone rang. I could see it was an out of state number so I just let it ring and hoped they would leave a message. I hoped it was a birth mother, but didn't know what I would say. A few minutes later Josh called in a panic. Someone wanted to give us their baby.
Even though we took a few moments to hope, we immediately we saw all the red flags.What is the life threatening condition? Her husband doesn't want to keep a part of his dying wife? Her two full-grown children don't want to raise their sibling?
I was so excited for about an hour. I'm not even sure what I did during that time. But the entire time bells were going off: this is too good to be true. So I did some searching on-line and I found someone who has been approached by this same person and she knows of others.
I know think I know what a drug addict goes through. That first hour was so exciting. My heart sped up yet slowed down at the same time! I was dreaming big, counting days, and making plans. I want to feel that high again! But only if it is the real deal.
So Congratulations to us. We just survived our first con artist scam. I don't count the emails we've gotten because you could tell they weren't real.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Adoption Email Scams

I was asked how we could tell these emails were adoption scams. In our case these were "parents" trying to give us their children. I've been online all morning trying to find an article to display here, but those are more related to people actually approaching you, taking your money, and then just disappearing before the due date.
The first thing I noticed with these emails we received is that they sound just like those email scams that say something like: I need to get this money, but I can't deposit it to my account. I will deposit it to your account if you will pay me $5000 to do so, but then you will receive $50,000. I'm sure we have all received them.
The biggest clue has been the way they talk. Clearly these emails are not coming from America. Here is just a few excerpts from these emails:
-well my intentions are to make sure this lill girl is in good condition with a loving family before I go.
-i will like to know more about the family who is going to adopt my twins
-all i will ask from God is that he should bless you so much since you have a human feeling to another
-My baby is eight months running now and i really need help.moreover i need a mum for my baby because i will not be able.
The other thing I have noticed is that the emails come about the same time that Dallon emails us from Africa. I am sure there really is birth mothers out there who can't sleep at night and that is when they are online, but to me these emails just seem to scream "Nigerian Scam."