here. He was convinced she was coming here to marry him. No telling who ended up with his money. We were all calling bullshit but he bought it. Anyone could have faked the butchered English in her emails. He had all kinds of pics of the woman too. I wonder if someone more sophisticated could have proven those were a fraud? I suppose the scammers know to avoid that. Pay some girl for the pics and only use them once.

That was years ago now. The dude got married and now has two kids and is a master dad! Some Russian girl would have done pretty well if it wasn't a scam.

The teller at the bank has always questioned us very aggressively to make sure it's not a scam. Do we know the person? How do we know the person? Have we ever met the person in the flesh? Why are we wiring the money to this person? What are they going to do with the money? Why is it this amount? It goes on and on and I am thankful for these questions. When they are on the phone to the agency that does the actual currency conversion and transfer, they also are asked about the transaction in detail. This last time I did this, I asked the teller what usually happened when they told the customer it was a scam. She said they likely went to another bank to wire the money. She said they get a few of these scams a week and can't always convince the customers of the scam.

After reading the link, the bank should be sued for not questioning the transfers. They must not have even asked anything.