I agree with the consensus here.
To make that more meaningful to you, I post on some of my experiences and how I can spot a scam. In short, it's pattern recognition and I spot a few patterns of language errors that are very common in two foreign nations where scamming is their major enterprise.
The only value I've actually lost to scammers has been my time, but I value that highly.
Here is an easy test to spot copy and paste clues:
Copy the most obscure part of the text that is poor language and with errors into a search engine which I did for you:
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_e...&as_rights=
Then you see the same copy and paste used on other people and them posting on it. In this case, the segment of words I chose are word for word including he exact same errors. You can see that it caused a lot of wasted time and trouble.
I've participated on dating websites a lot though not in recent years. They have a plethora of fake profiles that originate in Nigeria or Ghana Africa. But, you wouldn't know from looking at them. Most often they are listed in some small obscure town in your own state.
Oddly, the dating websites do nothing to eliminate them. Perhaps because they pay well and why not since they are making a lot of money from the hopeful who fall for some scam.
Our embassies warn of such scams and law enforcement there is likely part of the collection of huge amounts of money from scams. All it takes is an old man who has a cubical in a building with others doing the same, a desk and a computer and copies and pastes of ladies here and copies and pastes of their best attempts at English.
I spot the patterns. The clue here simply is no one actually talks like that when English is their main language. They're right that they won't pick up your boat. It would be impractical to move your boat to Ghana, Africa. Perhaps it's somehow a money scam.
There are also a lot of lessor scams. Some are just after your name and contact information. I got fooled by one of those when I was looking to buy my off-road vehicle for better access to great fishing locations. I saw an advertisement on KSL.com for one like what I wanted for a good price. It had a Vehicle Identification Number and plenty of pictures. I actually got a loan approval on it for that VIN. The "seller" was hard to contact. Finally, after many attempts to buy this car, he said it was already sold, but forgot to cancel the advertisement. He didn't forget as he continued the advertisement. He wasn't selling cars at all. What he was really doing was selling long lists of names and contact information of those interested in buying cars to used car dealers. It didn't matter to him that he wasted people's time.
Scammers make use of the anonymity on free advertisement.
It bothered me for a couple days, but I ended up buying a much better car and I actually got a better deal from a new car dealer - Jody Wilkinson Acura than anything I could find at used car dealers or individuals.
A dealership is not normally known for great deals, but their buisness has too much value to risk tarnishing their reputation with anything other than doing things right. Still, I got my car under the book value and it was a one owner car that spent most of it's life in an airconditioned garage and it came with a full file of service records.
Though I say to be careful of the free advertisements, I have bought plenty of good deals from fine people that I met in person. Your reply has me thinking that it comes from a non-English speaking nation that has very poor economics and they look the other way to people bringing in money with scams.
Scammers actually look for people who can be hurt the most by their scam. They don't care about that. What they want is someone desperate enough to need to believe it is not a scam. It also helps them that they don't have the resources to do anything about it.
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