§ If you ask them a question they don’t know they will usually be offline for a length of time so they can go look up the answer on the internet always claiming they had a phone call or had to go to the bathroom etc.
§ They like to send you poems or love letters, most of which can be traced back to lovingyou.com. Sometimes they even forget to change the name in the poem or letter to match your name
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§ They often claim to have one parent that is of African descent
§ A majority of them claim to have lost a spouse/child/parent in a horrific traffic accident or airplane accident or any of the above are sick or in the hospital
§ They have no close family or friend or business associates to turn to, even the US embassy, instead they can only rely on a stranger they picked off the internet
§ To them love equals financial assistance…if you do not send them money or help them out with what they ask, you do not love them
§ If you deny them or question them they become verbally abusive and will resort to threats
§ They will insist you keep the relationship a secret until “they” come to you live with you
§ Above all, if you call them a Scammer they are highly offended and some will start throwing words at you in their native language
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§ They IM at unusual hours for your time zone
§ There are times they are gone from the conversation for a length of time and will sometimes come back at you with a different name, they’re usually conversing with more than one person at a time
§ They send you flowers, teddy bears, and candy within the first few weeks of talking
§ They typically ask you to get on your web cam yet they never seem to have a web cam of their own
§ They ask for your phone number but when they call you can barely understand a word they say because of their accent and back ground noise
§ They may give you a phone number but it’s typically a calling card or a call center, you can rarely get them on the phone
§ They do not like to answer personal questions about themselves and tend to ignore questions
They often do not know the correct time difference between where 
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