One of my friends was almost taken by one of these romance scams. Something about a British girl about to come into some inheritance but needs to pay a solicitor. Ha-ha. He's not rich and he tried to ask me for a $1000. I told him bull****, it's a romance scam. He wasn't quite sure. A month later, he told me that SFPD's fraud division invited him down for a chat. Fortunately he hadn't given up any money.