If anyone especially an online friend ask me for money, I'm afraid I would end that relationship right then and there...Sorry but we've all been hard up at one time or another, and I wouldn't think of asking someone I had never even seen for money....

Well, this happened to me when I was very new to online business and had joined a person who claimed to be mentoring people for a site called retire quickly. I didn't know much about multi level marketing and matrices at that time and simply focussed on the training materials. My mentor said I'd get all the help to build my down line that I wanted , but that never happened and when I complained , I was told she is extremely busy and can't take up any more tasks. After a year or so I quit the business , but the money wasted wasn't so much of a loss as were the people who had joined under me and were hoping that I'd be able to help them. I just had to narrate my experience to them to let them know I truly believed in the mentor who let me down. Since then , I sense warning bells the moment I hear about 'step by step mentoring'.

While I understand your sentiments, I'm afraid I'm not that...um...practical. I am not Mr Wealth Unlimited, far from it, and I'm not Mr Generosity, either, but I do have one friend who I would loan money to in a dire emergency. She has helped me find online jobs that have paid on time and rather well, so I owe her a few favors as it is.

I must say you take care to those people you met online. There are lots of scammer and fraudulent people out there. Some of them even make it as their living. Trying to ask for some support from their chat mates in exchange of a fake friendship or love.

I was chatting with a girl of my same age. She told me that she would meet me when I will be going to her city. She gave me her address and invited me to her place. After 6 months I realized that she was fake, the address was fake. She was actually double my age.

Many people online will fib, its easier to do when your not face to face with someone. In the time I have been online I have known some good and some bad, but none that I would loan money too, I dont like to even loan money to people I know personally, let alone someone that I dont really know all that well.

I have been online for about 12 years now. I'm happy to say that I haven't been asked for money by anyone I've met online and I wouldn't give them money if I had been. :-) I *see* it happening, though... one in particular I've been watching is pulling all of the "tricks" that users pull and I HATE seeing others saying things like "I'll send you a little extra when I have it" and so on. Very sad.

It's important to always be extremely skeptical with anyone you meet online. I would never send money to someone I had never actually met no matter how well I thought I knew and trusted them via an online relationship. So many people are constantly being scammed this way and it's very unfortunate. You have to always maintain skepticism on the internet which is unfortunate because there certainly are a large number of good people out there.

I got sort of scammed online when I was part of a new mother's group. We decided to do a secret santa for the kids for the holidays. I sent my person her gift and everybody else was sent nice gifts. The person that was assigned to my daughter decided she did not have the money and never sent the gift. I was devastated at the time because money was tight and I was really looking forward to exchanging fun gifts for the kids. This woman never did apologize and she took her gift and ran. We never heard from her again.

Here is how I was 'got' in a new mother's group scamA confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; . It is a classic scam, but I trusted the group so I was not really looking for a scam. They send you a list of people in the Birthday Line above your kid with the promise your kid will be placed on the birthday line on other people's cards. Well, I'm sending $25 gift certificates and checks to everybody's kid on the list above mine, but the number of checks my kid is getting are not adding up. The promise is you will break even, but you never do.