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[@eyeandisinclair821]

She has more money than sense.

[@daraleea]

Right

[@rayanderson1941]

Exactly

[@carolynbruce-williams8217]

😂😂

[@giniolamy]

😅😅😅😅😅 you ain't never lied

[@jaunbonaysmith]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@hannahdrum3015]

What is wrong with people. Why is it so hard to understand not to send money to strange people

[@jermainetrew7903]

if someone in need of $100 JA she maybe would never give that person and was quick to send $450000 to a stranger/ all because of likes

[@A.Walker.]

She's brave enough to come forward, after such an embarrassing experience, to, hopefully, help save other way-too-gullible individuals from the same fate!

[@doreenmorrison3791]

Common sense!!

[@johnsmith-yk6yf]

She was stupid from the get go.

[@jermainetrew7903]

gullible is right

[@StarrTile]

The embarrassment should be her evil greed, not that she got scammed, greedy women are the problem

[@christophergarwood2320]

Foreign man dem want. So many of them skin out on line as long as a man is from Foreign.

[@sclarke869]

It's so sad that we are so materialistic that we would be so blind to the reality.

[@brownantoinette797]

One try fi trick me too with some of them stuff there me send him under him parent

[@jermainetrew7903]

Stupid and love likes

[@christophergarwood2320]

Yam head. Want foreign man like so many of them.

[@khaliagraham4669]

He who is without mistakes cast the first stone. Please remember this is a real person with real feelings, sometimes we need to be kinder with our fellow Jamaicans

[@corneliovidro6572]

Ites sister

[@murroyb]

Ain’t no way she jamaican. The amount a choppa songs a run the place and she never wise up. Bwoy this might sound harsh but she cah fool fi free so, a must pay dem pay her🫠

[@gena3136]

It's not abt casting the first stone but there is so many stories like these and still ppl are falling for them

[@Alien_7657]

@@gena3136 they sometimes can’t do better once they start interacting.

[@DAVOY2]

Well said

[@kadycJA]

If it's a gift, why would you pay to collect? Smh

[@daraleea]

That's what am saying

[@rayanderson1941]

I never thought that Jamaicans would be so dunce and fool fool. I'm saying to myself, think, woman! Almost ½ million dollars sent before she got her senses? I wonder if she told someone and they told her to call the airport.

[@Alien_7657]

Hahahah you guys don’t know anything that’s the reason you’re taking what you think.

[@Tinbeef22]

@@rayanderson1941 you dont see how the country a run?

[@doreenmorrison3791]

Exactly!!

[@theinvestmentcorner4914]

I bet she was bragging to her friends how she find a man fi nyam out

[@figofigo7908]

A she was trying to kon the man but man end up kon her

[@rashaidblake152]

Same so a white man she want.... its sad thou

[@1DonFF]

😂😂😂 fvcka she

[@grassroots5505]

Same thing me a seh too

[@OmelMclean-rg3sv]

Lord you nah easy..but its true

[@davidgoldbottles8921]

“ chop yuh get chop mumma” 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

[@STARBOYGODD]

lol stop dat

[@Sami-davis]

The game was... Let's see who chop the line first 😩

[@leonthorpe5771]

I agree.

[@LXNL]

DEM! DEAD! 🤣

[@DeeandTee_London]

Yuh doa funny 😂😂

[@vloggwithoneika6107]

Yup😂when I just start watching I thought she was the one gonna tell us how she chop him😂

[@christophergarwood2320]

Lot of you women want foreign man. As long as you are on these site and a foreign man call out to you women, you women skin out.

[@ric-st.clairclarke6110]

This sound like a scammer got scammed by a scammer to me

[@876joeyy]

All the money she sent could buy everything in the box

[@johannewade6832]

That's what I said... there is just no excuse!! None whatsoever for her to be so stupid!

[@andricasamuels9286]

This girl didn't read the receipt.. but my girl rich have 450,000😂

[@VictoriousQueenKandice75]

That am saying 😂and have children to take care of....,sigh idiot

[@analiseferguson]

Sorry that happened. Cyaa say much more. Be careful everyone.

[@deepwreviews2969]

Jamaican scammed a lot American people in similar ways... Now guys getting a dose of your own medicine 💊. Now you know how it feels

[@waitaminute2015]

True. This scammer could be Jamaican too. Isn't it an NCB account she put the money into? I don't wish it on anyone, but maybe some good understanding will come of it. People just act like it's normal to be a scammer.

[@julletcoley756]

These women are very gullible. How can you be paying so much for a gift? It's the same when you are asked to pay money to collect winnings. Don't be desperate to find love, get money, or travel opportunities. Remember, these are people you have never met, take what they're saying with a few grains of salt or simply run dem offa yuh phone.

[@dmaster20ify]

I doubt she was trying to find love.

[@percivaltracey100]

Damn YAM HEAD!!! I don't feel sorry for her. it seems like she is the scammer 😅

[@figofigo7908]

She want to kon the man but the man kon her instead

[@StElizabeth007]

Yam head🤣👏🏾

[@ShesfineryBeauty]

Why would anyone pay for something they didn't order ?🤔

[@zaleekablair4749]

Precisely, what I'm thinking

[@Maskman_original]

😂😂😂she did

[@waitaminute2015]

He told her the money was to clear the gifts at the airport. Didn't you watch the video?

[@stacyjd2759]

My word....den is where she get so much money from?!! She could have bought her self the laptop and phone he promised her and have change

[@schoolboy6407]

Exactly

[@davidgoldbottles8921]

This is a perfect example of the term “ fully dunce” & “ back a di class” 🤣

[@rachealgayle8744]

Harsh much😮

[@davidgoldbottles8921]

@@rachealgayle8744 what’s harsh the truth?

[@valeriehughes7221]

All these people who get scamming is because they are too greedy. As my grandmother always say no one don't give you nothing for free and don't expect to get back something. So that what these people do to them

[@hombregaza7092]

Vicki for goodies, U too LickiLicki. 😂😂😂

[@United-States-of-Africa]

Want white man gone wrong. Buga yuh!!

[@figofigo7908]

She want to kon the man and man kon her

[@judamom2545]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@truthandjustice.1182]

One police woman from maypen Jamaica scammed me for a Green card in 2015. She told me she interested...we meet on tagged.. Scammers come in all ways and forms..

[@jannettjones9165]

This a gwaan long time... If u send me a gift , I shouldn't av to pay... Mi glad to b doubtful Thomas..

[@Shanaevaz]

Yess lol 😊 I always second guess too be sure too People too lie and wicked

[@DeeandTee_London]

Human basic need, a longing to be loved.

[@dmaster20ify]

Sorry. These bitches are not longing to be loved. They have all the loving in the world. 10, 20, 100 men lined up ready to love them to the max. All they care about is money. And they always have a one man with all of the features they adore. If this white guy gave her the stuff, she definately wouldnt love him more, and would sport it with her true lover. She might even stop answering his phone calls. You cant use money to gain the love of these bitches.

[@kerryanlee9133]

This I will called fully stupid … don’t believed everything u see or hear on social media …

[@Deco_2k]

Them get catch in a the rolla coster .. ,

[@camellabailey5548]

My father warned me in my early teens never to take money from men. The red flags here were clear.

[@supremevibezradio7578]

Unfortunate this happened to her, hope she get back her money. As simple as it seems even close friends and family if you put trust in them will scam too so it doesn't only take a stranger .

[@rayanderson1941]

I don't think she is getting back a cent. As in the report, he told an elderly lady not to send the money, but she went to another branch and sent it.

[@judamom2545]

She's not getting back a red cent!! I don't know how people are so gullible. Smh

[@rayanderson1941]

@@judamom2545 Exactly. $55,000 that she paid first never brought up any red flags and she went and paid another $180,000 in one day. I'm saying to myself. $55,000 just to clear a package? I need to call the person who claimed that it's that amount. She ended up spending close to ½ million dollars, before she called the airport????

[@delorespryce2146]

Hi goody it is good for you to talk so it don't happen to others do sorry for your loss

[@coachb3599]

from who?

[@WatchfulEyes107]

Smh... anything out of Montego Bay should spell red flag and the scammed alert should have been activated. Dem johncrow yah affi come excellent for me to fall for thilier evil scamming

[@sylvialinton1767]

Wow, why would I have to pay to receive money? Wise up Ladies

[@eb5003]

Dem have money. Why she neva ask the man fi send clearance money. 😅

[@skysky5485]

A fool and their money will depart.

[@nathaleewalker5211]

This happened to me and I knew it was a scam from the idiot seh he was gonna send money in the package, who the heck does that…girl u got scammed bcuz u were either inlove or just naive

[@leekhototrot2258]

Scammers REQUIRE ignorance. People are the most innocent when they haven't learned better, yet. Knowledge protects us, but also makes us less innocent. And sometimes it even makes us paranoid.

[@venomsupe]

Me sorry, she deserved it. Hungry belly gal think seh a Suh life guh. Can bet Vicki did a rave to the scamming tune dem a party too enuh 😂

[@Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect]

Stoppppp 🤣😭

[@jaypraisemusic]

It’s sad that we keep looking for love online, instead of going out and meeting someone in person. Not saying anything is wrong with dating sites, however the old way still works

[@elaineyhouston9461]

You get scammed the old way too even if you live together. If you are the one spending you are being scammed

[@deloreswstewart2513]

Where them get money from fe a give man so

[@tashekacunningham8814]

This almost reach me only thing i did not send any money to no one i cuss out the man

[@Denise-bcg]

Stop sending money to strangers. Simple as that. Also do not communicate with people from Nigeria, Eastern Europe and South Asia.

[@gillprescod4141]

Dem who luv vanity have no luv for humanity uzeet

[@sunshinejamaica9840]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Vicky Nuh want Nuh poor Jamaican because them going to take advantage of them, but wait 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LXNL]

But wait, there's more! 🤣

[@kerryanlee9133]

Some of these women are too gullible

[@OmelMclean-rg3sv]

The worst thing you cannot sue online and these scammers name and accounts are FAKE....

[@dmaster20ify]

No, the worst thing is that, when women scam men everybody just laughs at the man. I think that's a big double standard. As a man I have given girls hundreds of dollars and never even seen the panty they wear. I know I can never get that money back. I know if I force her for sex I am going to prison. So I am infuriated that everyone thinks this woman needs a re fund and that this man committed a crime. No! No! No! He didn't commit a crime. He didnt steal from or rob her or blackmail her or coerce her. He simple asked for money and got it.

[@r.kenney9763]

That girl yah rich

[@iceman4660]

Not too sure how vulnerable she is. If someone had said that to her on the street she would have cussed them out

[@giniolamy]

Omg 😮 I can't believe it. It's usually the other way around

[@nastasiasmith-williams6629]

Then this make sense, what the heck. First of all he would've had to send the money to clear that!!! Not from my pocket!

[@rayanderson1941]

Exactly. And he claimed it is a gift.

[@judamom2545]

EXACTLY!!!

[@jamaicamyles3150]

The table turn

[@dshellamusic4064]

Jah know mi feel it .

[@matthewtrugooner6349]

An look how we used to laugh after the foreigners dem, when ppl innah Jamaica ah get trick same way. 😩😩😩😩😩

[@joanmorgan2094]

It's GREED why she was Scammed... Why would you send money to receive money?? Take the money out of what was sent to me to pay for any necessary duty fees.

[@realmeal2589]

Everybody want to find a man or woman to go foreign like its a bed of roses...if some wish to talk truth some of you would take your mind off going overseas and tan a yuh yard.The currency is strong when yuh come back a yard to spend it but the bills are expensive especially rent.1000USD and up for a little matches plus most time you have to share with nasty room mate

[@dramayaad]

I can only let out a big sigh 😢I get these “hellos” so often. I just “report and block”. Not entertaining any conversation 😡😡😡

[@roxannwilliams1447]

Thank you, them get me so upset at times

[@angellahenry6520]

The scammers them using people pictures on Facebook and

[@LXNL]

Wonda if the kids dad had asked for financial help yuh woulda di fork it out suh fast? Brand new iphone 14 pro max with 1TB would cost you about $260,000 JMD and mi almost certain seh yuh nay did ago buy dat fi yuhself. A man can send you $15,000 USD... but he can't fly to see you? Plus an iphone with Toshiba laptop? Den dat did mek sense to you mi fren? Any of it? If the evidence shown is accurate, di man deevn did consistent with the way he did it. See, media got ya'll THINKING that that's how life works. All these "influencers" and "celebrities" that ya'll look up to and crave soooooo much and try so hard to be like. Now you're out almost half a million dollars.

[@gervanmyers3066]

A SO MI A SAY TOO.

[@angelafowler6161]

Same so

[@LXNL]

@@angelafowler6161 a who can send 15k USD, but not travel to you? Who a send iPhone wid a dated looking Toshiba laptop? Even if the last part slip because she nuh up to di time wid tech and only know wah iPhone look like, dat still nuh explain di first part. Mumma get chop like goat fi a Indian nine night!

[@jaunbonaysmith]

@Lex pree how they spell Sangster's too 😂😂😂

[@dam6351]

She has money...😲. Sorry this happened to her. I had a similar contact...and after 3 messages, I said enjoy your day....that was my last message. My money is for me andy child...point blank..

[@Rudylee51]

This woman have to be crazy. Where she get this kind of money.

[@Shanaevaz]

Hummm She can save eno but at the same time that cross mi mind dat sumin do her. Like she no too righted

[@elviscampbell6547]

Sometimes you would say people noh have no sense but when u developed a relationship with people over timevu nah expect things like this from dem, u think u r dem friend and u a help dem but dem have other motivate and u noh know till it too late, but mi learn my lesson right yah so.

[@patsywilliams7029]

Why you all cant learn . I got several messages from these people and I immediately blocked them. They are also posing with children on their PD. Block them

[@tammyjuice]

Who she need to get back the money back from?

[@lady123_]

Sometimes with some of these scammers, one cannot be too careful. Yes, I believe that the victims should have better judgement in some cases. However, anyone can get scammed by some of these professional scammers. They have multiple seemingly legitimate ways to lure their victims. It's unbelievable how ppl actually sit down and come up with some of these scamming schemes....It's disgusting to say the least. Since Covid, the criminals have remerged even more heartless! How could a man do that to a woman with kids?

[@dmaster20ify]

What about when bitches be scamming men. She was trying to scam this man. If she got these items, would her love for him grow stronger? No.

[@JourneywithBobbsey]

Lord i hope you had did that before you start sending you money. So sorry you loss your money in the name of finding love.. love your children and stay single .

[@simonea.8852]

Girl so if you have so much money why you want a man to buy these things for you. Buy it fi yuhself

[@Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect]

Exactly

[@waitaminute2015]

Maybe she borrowed it

[@sleepwillcome4]

Licky licky n love sweets. She think she find man fi nyam out

[@iammariomurray]

You don't even meet the bredda.... Man a beg money and a live lavish life inna Romania... Yep, this is Jamaica!

[@thebeautyboss3952]

Seriously how could she not realize come on so much money you spend

[@deloreswstewart2513]

Is she ok Romania oh desperate some of theses women are did she work for her money?

[@figofigo7908]

Me believe say she a scammer to because she is a stranger and want the man send her gifts in fi har mind she was scamming the man but the man scam her instead

[@waitaminute2015]

​@@figofigo7908 it's very easy to do with the promise of foreign.

[@maxineperry4869]

That same man did want to scam my sister, luckily my sister have much sense, these young ladies too desperate and greedy

[@VINDICATED806]

When i done with him ,him sens all of romania to me and have to pay for it.

[@adrianallen5117]

No one is going to send money like that in large amount it would be more like a wire transfer

[@collethilllawrence2063]

What the hell so many red flag she never see that. This person contacted me sometime ago.

[@Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect]

Wow this is unfortunate especially the elder lady who went around the bank to go send money _after_ they told her it was a scam. I don't even know what to say smh

[@beverlyrhame3692]

UN- SUSPECTED you say? No not true, from the moment people start asking for money, it’s time to abandon love. If you keep forking over money after money, you have too much money, or you just want to gift someone some money.😞

[@andreawellasley5795]

God knows some of that money you give away I would really like even one hundred out of it to start a bussiness .u know how much of my friends these groups of people try to scam

[@lornaleetomlin8857]

Dwl I had this experience up to yesterday morning but I didn't comply I had received stuff from my relatives and I didn't pay so then I realized this no right wow she send so much money

[@DJWizmuzk]

If it's too good to be true it is not. I believe there is no good person left on earth. So if someone offer me something I want to know why you one so generous. Not even friends and family I trust 😢😢

[@Shanaevaz]

Well um glad Jamaicans touched on this topic I have seen men from Jamaica do this tbh get with you to scam you than leave you so if this is happening to you. Your maybe at your variable state seeking love or something being desperate settling at its finest. She pretty She should be able to fine some one in person. Smh sumin wrong with her. Seeking love online an whu She sent so much money 💰 jah jah

[@pansymurphy6677]

Hw can anybody be so foolish😮😮😮😮😮😮if mi getting something from someone why am I paying to get it??

[@chennicole1132]

i heard this same story last year from a woman.

[@charleschin2612]

And to make it worse she have children and she send so much money what about her children they don't have needs for the money to be spent on them ,well I don't sorry for her as the saying goes you give and you get in her case she got scam 🤬😡

[@Pdools]

Most of these European countries are poorer than Jamaica

[@sclarke869]

Romanians leave to the UK in their droves for a better life every year.

[@susanchaplin5821]

I am lost for words 😮

[@jesselinsey9238]

This happen to both man and woman all over the world

[@jaunbonaysmith]

It's the "Sangester" International Airport for me....😅😅😅

[@StElizabeth007]

🤣😅

[@gshodiamond]

Like anuh people come a airport lol. Mi never know anuh custom u collect packages

[@angelaelliott8614]

Thay tried it with me last year it did not catch me at all

[@brooneil1632]

Can't say she didn't deserve it. Honestly! You have 450,000.00 and gave it away for what?

[@constancetaylor2114]

Hush my dear , it's good to know you're opening up the eyes of others. Never put Confidence in anyone because my mother told me that every SHADOW is a hand and crab don't trust his cousin Lobster

[@nathaleecharles8997]

When you licky licky From mi hear seh him a send money and phone in a package mi know that’s a scam. Why him couldn’t western union or wire transfer the money to me. That deh type and mode of IPhone worst if it brand new Custom a hold on pon that. 😂😂😂😂😂 Wooi a weak That’s why I only stick to WhatsApp and KZbin No need nuh further social media

[@audreyjohnson3093]

Hey girl am sorry for your loss, people need open uno eyes, they only can fool, who them can

[@OmelMclean-rg3sv]

He's not from romania.. Most of them culprits are Africans...that?'s called "cat fishing".. No way I am gonna spend money to receive money. Don't allow persons to trick you guys. No one is gonna get up and send money and gifts to some one they don't know and file for kids they don't know. Stop being a fool. Stop falling for unrealistic baits. The scammers are fishers, their words are the baits, you are the fish...🐟

[@veronataylor4713]

He tries to scam me too same way I told him take out the money am to pay from the package and send the rest I also told him I have aunty works at the airport and am going to call her to check for me he never text back

[@tilted_notbroken950]

So pretty much paid someone the $15k instead of receiving it.

[@venomsupe]

Vicky did a run a scam herself 😅

[@janicehalstead201]

Me nuh stupid so. Me very sure this couldn't happen to me

[@DeeandTee_London]

This is what you call RADAAM!! 😢

[@simonewilson8438]

Once money is to be paid to anyone… red flag 🚩.. me bruk so!!!

[@roselawrence56]

If I dont know you personally I am not sending no emolji like that on social media. Although I dont have no facebook or tik tok or tweeter.

[@kidbat8302]

Stop it...😂😂😂😂😅😢

[@rashaidblake152]

Lol 😂😂😂 a white man she want

[@jaunbonaysmith]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@larosamartin5347]

Me neva know jamaican coulda get scam like that

[@MsMally23]

Jah knw you know how much money that she pay out. Me wish she did think twice after the first deposit.

[@carlito507]

Vicky get chop🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maijanay3350]

That money could have start a small business, but no , too foreign minded.

[@kaycampbell364]

what kind of small business