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[quote=Anonymous]As to why I thought it was a country in Africa, your story has several hallmarks of affinity scams - younger man/older woman (although certainly not a big spread), economic differential, him not being able to find work, him disappearing with a story that made no sense to you (a car accident in an unlikely place), and then his family reading your communication and stepping in to communicate with you. Affinity scams are most common in developing countries in Africa.

HOWEVER - given that you lived there for 18+ months, I don't think that anymore. It just had a ton of hallmarks of it, and that's why I asked. If you'd said you'd visited for 1 week once, I would have been more concerned than if you lived there.

It's all not relevant because your answers didn't confirm my worries, but if you had said you'd only visited once, you were sending him money, and you'd only heard about the death from his family - in addition to counseling, I would have suggested some other things to look into to see if you could get closure whether it was on his death or finding out it wasn't as you thought it was. Don't be offended by "sounded like Africa," it is nothing prejudice, just a simple fact of where other scams that have a lot of similar hallmarks occur. [/quote]

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