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renard
Jun 18, 14 at 8:22pm
I'm not sure where to put this but I think it fits the relationship advice nicely. A few weeks ago I received a private message about someone interested in me. No profile, no avatar. At this point I just thought "meh, she doesn't want to be jumped on by ravenous males or something", it was kinda understandable. She told me to continue speaking elsewhere, said she'd tell about her interests, age, stuff like that there, so I messaged her back on Outlook like she asked. She didn't told a single about herself, except some sad story about her country is in a war zone and that she's poor and her family died and she's a refugee somewhere in Africa. With a high quality picture taken pretty professionally of a woman with lots of jewelry and fashion clothes. She repeated herself quite often too. I had absolutely zero feeling she was even interested in me or that she was an otaku. I thought it was pretty fishy so I googled for fun and found out it is a popular scam to succub' some moneyz. Sometime it's a guy behind it all too. All I wanna tell you is, be careful! I know it can be pretty obvious but still, I feel much obliged to share the info. Just in case someone is a little too dense or blinded by love or whatever, if it saves even one person from being succubed, I'll be happy. I don't know any other dating scams like this one but I'm sure you can find more on google if you want to. Keeping the neighbourhood safer :3
yaasshat
Jun 18, 14 at 9:20pm
These kinds of scams are as old as the internet, nothing new. Always be wary if they won't communicate here and I would suggest Skype. It's always up to you to prevent your own idiocy. Do you fall for penis "enhancement" pills too? The internet's mean, it's always telling me how inadequate I am.
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