Not far off. The setups are quite professional. They monitor dating sites, they monitor chat rooms, looking for people they think they can get a hit on. It starts off friendly, and then they see if they can get some interest from anybody in the rooms, and then they work on them. They...
Sad thing is that these people are not muppets. They are generally quite "intelligent" people who are just susceptible to this sort of scam. Just had a teacher at school go off sick with stress - she only parted with £1000 (we think) before she was told about the whole deal after she let...