> When I read the thread now, it's obviously full of red flags. I was successfully manipulated, and whilst I'm certainly not as clever as all the people pointing out they would have caught this from sentence one, I believe I'm also not the lowest hanging fruit in terms of a target :-)

I think it's soo easy to spot scams because 99% of them are so shit, poor spelling, talking nonsense.

If scammers simply spell checked their scams I would fall for them all.