Deconstructing the Long Distance Lover Con Game

Everyone is looking for love. We look for it in the woman pushing her shopping cart down the canned goods aisle. We look for it in the man thumbing through a book in the romance section. When our efforts to find the perfect life partner are fruitless, we turn to the vast world of online dating. But as seen here, there are hazards in the dating scene whether it’s in your neigh­borhood or on the Internet.

It’s a perfectly good con game that guy pulled (described briefly in above article). There are many facets of this that will make it work. Now, most of us New Yorkers will probably be like, “Naw, I couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to hand over $2000 to some guy I met off the Internet…” Okay, well let me explain why it would work.

This con artist is probably a profes­sional. This means that he will be doing this for a living, not to make a quick buck here or there like I might do. Using the anonymity of the Internet, the con artist can be whoever he claims to be. He is a master in the art of online seduction.

He chooses a target likely to fall for his charms. Women who have been divorced, who are older, and who have money to spare are excellent targets. All of these details are easily learned: they are often right there in the profile of the target.

Once he has chosen his mark (and he can have many going on at once), he begins to research the profile. Decon­structing the profile word by word, he intuits what the woman will respond to. He looks at what body type she prefers, what kind of person­ality she will be attracted. He undergoes a trans­for­mation for the sole purpose of fooling his mark.

The con artist contacts dozens of women at once to increase the like­lihood of a response. Once he engages his marks, the game begins. He solicits their values and listens care­fully, reading between the lines and extracting infor­mation that the normal person would overlook: he is a master of listening.

Infor­mation in hand, the con artist is armed with every­thing he needs. He knows her favorite flower, how she likes her coffee, where she wants to go, what type of life she wants to have, what emotions she responds to. He takes all of this and creates himself in that perfect image. To his mark, he is the 100% Perfect Love. He is a master of seduction.

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