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I think you're being trolled here, guys.

I'm glad you're back and engaging! That's really hopeful.

'She' got you to pay her £3,000, while you've never ever met 'her', for purposes which three different travel experts here immediately tell you are false, and a certain sign of a scam.

There is no doubt in our minds that this is a scam. It's unfortunately an extremely well known mode of operation. I'm going to ask some question, based on what I know of how such scams operate. I expect to be correct with the vast majority of them:

Think back to how you first started exchanging messages. 'She' contacted you, right? Probably with a message about how you had messaged 'her' on some dating site or similar, some time before - but you have no active recollection of having done so, and if you'd go back to that site now, you wouldn't be able to find back any message to 'her'.
Almost immediately after messaging you for the first time, 'she' switched to a different email address for messaging, and/or straight to telegram.

'She' got you to install telegram to message 'her'. You'd never used that app before. (It's an okay app in itself, but it's heavily used by criminals as it'll leave very few tracks by which they can be tracked down.)

'She' admitted to falling in love with you within the first few weeks of messaging you.

Image editing is quite easy, so that passport photo proves nothing. 'She' probably sent that to you quite unprompted, and that gave you a lot of trust, right?

If 'she' is real, 'she' can send you a photo of doing something trivial, which most people wouldn't put online. Remember, 'she' is mining a real person's facebook account or similar for 'her' photos - anything which wouldn't be in that account, would be something 'she' can't send you. So if you're not yet convinced, tell 'her' that you need to lay to rest some doubts about 'her', and ask 'her' take a photo of standing on one leg, touching 'her' nose with 'her' index finger, holding up today's newspaper, or anything like that.

'Her' reaction will be twofold: first being really upset that you'd mistrust 'her' like that, and don't you love 'her' and playing on your emotions, and second (maybe only if you keep pressing 'her'), giving you some reason why 'she' just can't do that (maybe 'her' camera just broke, maybe 'she' can't find anywhere to buy a newspaper, whatever). There's a small chance 'she' will try to do image editing to honor this request, but probably the scammer will have seen such questions before, and know it won't be worth the effort as they will understand that they've reached the point where they won't extract any more money out of you, so they'll swiftly move on to more lucrative targets.

[ Edit: Edited on 11 Apr 2025, 11:33 GMT by Sander ]

Quoting AndyF

I think you're being trolled here, guys.

Could be, but I doubt it - this is far too common a scam, with far too many people really falling for it and requiring quite a bit of effort to be extracted. And even if this case were to be a troll, it can't hurt to build up a thread with reactions for the next time when it is true.

Quoting Sander

And even if this case were to be a troll, it can't hurt to build up a thread with reactions for the next time when it is true.

Fair enough.

Let me be very clear:

1. Your 'girlfriend' does not need extra money, extra vaccinations, any sort of health check or any sort of vaccination waiver to visit the UK.

2. Your 'girlfriend' does not need any sort of travel advisor to visit the UK. All she needs to do is to book a flight and get a UK ETA.

3. There is no way your 'girlfriend' will legally be able to stay in the UK with you.

US citizens can stay a maximum of 6 months in the UK.

If you want her to stay permanently she will have to return to the USA and you will have to apply for a family/'fiance' visa. This is not a quick or easy process.

You will have to prove that you have been in a relationship for at least 2 years (one in-person meeting almost certainly won't be enough).

You will have to prove that you have a combined income of at least £29000

https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa/partner-spouse

[ Edit: Edited on 11 Apr 2025, 14:04 GMT by leics2 ]

I should add that if your 'girlfriend' is not a US citizen she may or may not need a visa to visit the UK. How long she will be able to stay in the UK depends on her citizenship and not on where she lives.

This official site tells you the UK entry requirements for all citizenships:

https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa

Your 'girlfriend's' citizenship does not affect the family/fiancee visa requirements I noted above.

[ Edit: Edited on 11 Apr 2025, 19:52 GMT by leics2 ]