dating site – badoo
March 17, 2010
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i would like to give a warning to every one thinking of going on to a dating site called badoo as every woman will say they live in one country but later will say they need money to come to you these women all come from ghana i have had women saying they come from australia & need my help to come back also they say they will marry if i can help tthis site is full off scammers so please be warned
This post was submitted by steve andersen.
Yes i think i agree with you..That’s what some many women do but not in ghana some from Australia and US also…I also plead to everyone the dating site to be careful..Enough is enough,if you do want to learn more just kick my ass up..happerman4me@hotmail.com
Woodson
i had an badoo profile for quite some time. then i went to Ghana to work and i used my badoo account to answer my mails. a dy later when i want to log in again my profile was been deleted stating i did some stuff illegally and a long explanation my account was blocked with fraud statements etc. i have never done something wrong am back in Namibia and can still not enter my account which is now be blocked without any explanation. i really think Badoo should have straighter security methods in line. in this case the user have done nothing wrong but my profile has now been deleted because of some scammer. what is badoo doing to secure the users? verey very bad i cannot even enter into my acount to alert them that i hae been deleted without me doing some wrong stuff!!!
somebody please help:
All the social sites are full of scammers. It is either navigate around them taking care of who you choose to trust or not use any sites at all. No site, as far as I have found, is scammer free.
Yup – looks like a scam harvesting data from facebook to generate emails. Got an emails saying I had a message from someone I knew, but showing someone elses picture.
I have my email set to friends only, so I can only assume one of my friends has been hacked/infected and they are harvesting their contacts. It also claims several otehr people I have never heard of are waiting for me.
Add domains to SURBL blacklists.
I met someone calling himself Anderson Cooper who professes to be a General inthe US army on the peace-keeping force in Iraq. He said he was sending a package to me containing a large amount of dollars and asked me to meet his diplomat at the airport. The “supposed” diplomat said he was stuck in ghana and the custims had retained the package and needed £8,000 to release it. I did not have this kind of money and then he said they had reduced the fees to £2,000 which I foolishly sent to him via Moneygram. This person still writes to me romantically and promises to come and visit. I do not know what to think as he is very clever with his words and makes me still think he could be real. Is there anyway I can find out if this person really is Anderson Cooper. He did send me a copy of a passport with aphot of the person on the site and it did seem to be a real one. The package is still supposedly in Ghana customes waiting foir more money which I flatly refuse to send, \please is there any way I can tell if this person is real as he continues to chat with me on msn every night.
Mandy,
The simple answer to your question is, no. He’s got your money… you got scammed. If you continue to talk to him, it will only be a matter of time before some new problem comes up and needs more money. If you send any more money, you are a fool. This is a classic 419 scam. Just check your junk mail folder, there are probably 20 emails in there alone with a sad story about money being held and they need your help.
G
PS: Anderson Cooper is the guy on CNN.. has his own show and everything. (not that I think he is the only Anderson Cooper in the world)
On a side note. I like having fun with these guys.. I waste their time by promising that I sent the money and make them travel to Western Union to pickup nothing.
hello a friend of mine has the same problem i dont know how my friend badoo account got blocked over nothing someone can please help me, and who can i e-mail so that this misunderstanding get resolved.
p.s the only thing my friend remember is that was talking to a person he got bored and stop talking to that person, what kind of filter do this badoo people use to report this, does my friends e-mail and computer would be investigated, i dont undertand it. it does say that they would report it to some like higher goverment thing so, please let me know if you know something
@ Zu-ann: they did the same to me a few days ago. i am a Ghanaian male who detected that a lady was using two different pictures for the same identity to dupe people. i rebuked the lady and she rather reported me. badoo has now irresponsibly blocked my access and described me as a scammer! i have already discussed it with my lawyer and a suit will soon be underway.
@Mandy, yes! that criminal can be arrested! can you provide his details and phone nos he uses to me via my email (baahtadieh@yahoo.com)? meanwhile continue to be nice to him so as not to create any suspicion and let him know that you will soon send a bigger amount to influence the customs officers. let me also have the details of the first amount you sent and the money transfer system you used. take me seriously!
@Greg, good advice but this time i think the guy can easily be picked. i can assure you that in Mandy´s case where the guy is still ´active´ i can help to arrest him.
@A FRiend, badoo is an inefficient site which is toying with individual rights and reputations in addition to denigrating decent people whilst criminals have a field day on their site. as a final year law student(LLB) i know that they will soon be in
big trouble. i have given them 7 days from yesterday to effect rectification, restitution and appology in my case otherwise there´ll be a law suit.
tell me what you think about this, i got blocked from badoo i think because i stop a talk with one guy and he got mad.
my q is if you know the answer: can they put me in legal problems about that stuff, or they have like no kind of filter and block anybody for no good reason?
am i in some kind of legal trouble or my pc is been hacked up,
am i been silly investigated for doing nothing, how the heck does this legal threat from badoos website actually works.
Sorry for all the questions is just that is the first time this happens to me and i am upset.
so please help understand and know exactly what is the next badoo step.
p.s in what mail can i contact the badoo people, so i can talk to them. i got one from this site but i was no good, please help me!.
Hi, A Friend (let me know your real identity via my email above), if i understand you well then you might have been reported on badoo maliciously by this guy whom you stopped talking to. Badoo, without any common-sensical investigation would then block you because somebody has reported you irrespective of the veracity of the report.
It is like having a Police Station where you are immediately imprisoned once you are reported. That is the pinnacle of STUPIDITY! It also shows badoo´s lack of respect for certain people because they are generally classified as scammers.
Once you have not committed any illegality badoo can not do anything to you. They just write thrash to frighten illiterates since they know that most scammers
from under-developed countries are not well educated.
Don´t be upset at all if you know you have done nothing wrong (however it is possible to trace you to your computer and which area you are located with modern technology should you be doing anything illegal). I contacted them through http://www.badoo.com; then click ´About us´ which is down-right then after you will see ´´Contacts us´´
I have just been accused of being a spammer on their website with legal implications if found guilty ! I have never spammed a soul there or anywhere !