Genuine or Scam?

[forsure]

Just received an email from a 'Reunion' website telling me that 'X' wants to get in touch.

'X' is an attractive Swedish blonde that I met on a dating site about five years ago.
We exchanged emails daily for a couple of weeks and got on very well - though she clearly had some 'baggage' (abusive, alcoholic ex-long term partner).
We met once (she holidays in the UK) but, although gorgeous, she was emotionally unstable and irrational. It's a long story, but basically she was too much like hard work, and I called a halt - much to her distress.

So, now - five years later - she's apparently entered my details (including email address) into this 'Reunion' website.

When I search on the website I can't find anyone matching her description. And if I want to 'view profile' of anyone (of that name, in Sweden) I have to subscribe.

And anyway, she obviously still knows my email address - so why doesn't she just send me an email ?

Part of me thinks it's an elaborate scam, and part of me is curious.

What do you think?

[Captain Cadillac]

You know the rules.

Is she fit?

Got any pics of her?

[TheEnd]

pics first, deliberations later

[The Riddler]

Gotta agree with the pics first thing.

Maybe she wants to get back in touch, but doesnt want to do it directly?
Either that or the site asks for your address book details, and everyone she's ever emailed has got the same invitation.

[mically]

can't think without pictures!

[parapaul]

I had a virtually identical email yesterday. Not from a dating contact, but my dad's partner, bizarrely.

So, on the basis that you've had something so similar, it has to be a scam.

She has a hotmail account - how about this girl who's allegedly tried to contect you? I'm wondering if Hotmail have some kind of virus going around again?

[g_attrill]

One thing, some of these social networking sites ask the new user to enter their email account password and it automagically sends all their contacts an invite to that site or matches up existing users, so that might have happened in your case?

[big_lad]

Sounds like spammy spammy spam spam spam to me! She'll probably have had to 'invite' some friends to properly join...basically the site pimping themselves out and trying to convice you (via your eagerness to screw her brains out) to join their rubbish dating site. Ignore them, flag it as spam to your email provider and/or send some abuse back to them!

[forsure]

parapaul said:

I had a virtually identical email yesterday. Not from a dating contact, but my dad's partner, bizarrely.

So, on the basis that you've had something so similar, it has to be a scam.

She has a hotmail account - how about this girl who's allegedly tried to contect you? I'm wondering if Hotmail have some kind of virus going around again?

Hotmail it was. Sounds like I was right to be cautious.

Thanks.

[Nobody You Know]

Swedish, Blonde, Unstable - I presume you did?

[pjmobile]

I've had three of these reunion emails over the same amount of days:-

1 was from a guy I got as a removal company a couple of years ago.
2 was from a customer who emailed me a couple of months ago and I had one order from
3 was from an old friend who I lost touch with ages ago (or rather I couldn't be arsed to carry on speaking to!)

I assume it's some sort of virus??

[Scraggles]

guess if the woman really wanted to contact the OP, then they would have used the email address directly, getting asked to pay to chat to someone means the site gets blocked

need to check my hotmail soon to see if anything interesting on it, kept getting a lot of hunting and related porn from some yanks who took a long time to realise I have the same name as one of their buddies