Timeline for Am I being scammed somehow in being persuaded to move to another country? [closed]
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 16:26 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | One question I miss in all the comments and answer, do you want to go? From your question I get reluctance for the whole project. If you are not fully behind it, you may need to consider not going even if it is a good break for a career. (And that is besides the risk of scamming.) | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 15:25 | history | closed |
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 14:35 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 14:33 | comment | added | Jeroen | @user381929 If you decide going through with this, make sure you are in control at all times. Make sure you can enter and leave the country on your own accord. Get the visa yourself, make sure you have direct personal access to money to get a return flight. Make sure you legally can get the ticket and board a plain back (valid visa) and have some backup money to get food and accommodation if he decided to kick you out. Even if this is legit, the situation and mood can change. Although I admit I do doubt this is legit. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | Why does this person want to move you to the UK in the first place? Your physical location doesn't seem particularly relevant to your success as an internet personality, which raises another red flag for me. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 13:05 | comment | added | WernerCD | How well do you know him? Have you texted? Talked on the phone? Video chatted? met face to face? If he has the resources to take you there, has he came to meet you where you are at? Basically: What have you done to make sure you aren't being catfished. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 13:02 | answer | added | nekomatic | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 10:28 | comment | added | BritishSam | Whats your citizenship? A standard visitor visa is 6 months max, a visa free entry is also 6 months max, so unless you are from the EEA or Switzerland it would be very hard for you to move for a year anyway, or unless you are eligible for the working holiday visa. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 10:28 | comment | added | Ant | @AndrewLazarus Actually, never mind. After reading about it in wikipedia, this seems like a classic case :-( Scary stuff - we should be more aware of it | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 10:18 | comment | added | Ant | @AndrewLazarus Why did you jump to that? Is it so common? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 9:53 | answer | added | tonyofthewoods | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 9:41 | comment | added | AakashM | "has offered to pay " ... " will be paying " - let me ask you this - have you to date received any actual money from this person? At all? Or is "helped me grow my success online with a fan base" all they've materially done? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 9:03 | comment | added | DonQuiKong | I do hope someone adds an answer acknowledging that there might be something legit behind this and how to make sure. There's a lot of danger here, but it's not like that's unsolvable. Op: please don't jump into this without insurance. Yes, it might all work out. But what if? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 8:54 | answer | added | user541686 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 6:29 | answer | added | Hanky Panky | timeline score: 28 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 5:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/961109614669586433 | ||
| Feb 7, 2018 at 3:49 | history | edited | user67108 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 3:33 | comment | added | user29788 | The common response to questions like these is simply "if you have to ask, you probably are...". | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 2:53 | answer | added | WGroleau | timeline score: 40 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 2:43 | comment | added | Andrew Lazarus | My guess, which I can not verify without knowing more about the OP, is sex trafficking will be how the debt incurred will be paid. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 2:07 | comment | added | user67901 | This looks like the early stages of advance fee fraud to me. Your 'friend' persuades you to go to Britain, and everything looks good, until there's just the matter of the visa fee to pay, and then a problem with the airline ticket, send some money to cover local business registration which he can't pay because...reasons, on and on and on.... If it looks too good to be true it probably is. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 1:59 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:49 | comment | added | Giorgio | Go look at the UK register of licensed sponsors: workers. If he/his company is not on it, he cannot sponsor you. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:40 | comment | added | MastaBaba | @doctordonna is giving sound advice. You will have no recourse without a contract. By the sound of it, he is promising you a bunch of things, and he might come through, but if he doesn't, there's nothing you can do about it. The 'proof' you need is a contractual agreement detailing his and your roles and responsibilities, while stipulating a timeframe. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:38 | comment | added | user381929 | Well what kind of legal binding would I need for someone who is paying for everything for me? I don't know what I would even be asking proof of or how he would supply it. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:34 | comment | added | doctordonna | It is extremely rare for someone to offer to cover so many expenses without wanting something in return. Don't go into this without asking questions and seeing proof. I personally wouldn't go forward without some legal binding. You don't even know if he's using his real name. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:27 | comment | added | user381929 | @doctordonna no legal contract or anything. Not offering to be my agent. Just to do everything full time. So I don't have to worry about working another job to pay bills and food and stuff. All that paid for so I can focus on getting successful in a short amount of time. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:25 | comment | added | user381929 | I've seen the videos used on his pages and other pages as well, reaching multiple millions of views on some. I just don't make any money from it.. I suck at everything to do with it. He even says he doesn't want anything from it. He's the nicest dude ever, and I do trust him. I just wanted to see if anyone had heard of a weird scam like that or if anyone would go through the lengths to get me there to screw me over in some way.. maybe I'm just paranoid | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:18 | comment | added | ajd | Are you sure the attention is real, or could he have a bot network that is giving you all of the views automatically? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:13 | comment | added | doctordonna | Is he offering you a legal contract on top of all this? Is he offering to be your agent? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:08 | comment | added | user381929 | He will be paying for my working visa application, any fee's in getting there. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:06 | comment | added | Roddy of the Frozen Peas | Do you have the appropriate visas tp get there and permission to work there? Are these just promises or actual tickets or a bank account? | |
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 0:00 | history | asked | user381929 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |