I am being catfished right now!

Oh no! He has one child.... I'm sorry to tell you but I have "the gift" and I forsee him or his child having an emergency in the near future.

But on a happy note the men with numerous kids don't seem to have these lift threatening emergencies.

They need to mix it up a bit. Rob from the US army who has 12 kids with his god fearing widowed wife. Or Boris from Bognor who has 8-12 kids with various wives who have mostly run for the hills to escape the super stud.

Is their science behind women desiring dad's of one more than any other man? Dh is stuffed then if I pop off before him.

Fight the good fight
string ‘him’ along as long as possible

Just the word 'karman' would put me off, without the pic and generic blurb.... go for it! String him along well.

Ooh I was reading this a couple of days ago and feeling a bit left out - I do get the occasional 'clean cut US army man up a mountain/fishing/hunting' friend request which I've always deleted because even the thought of their catfish persona is boring. But just now I've been friend requested by a new type of catfish!

Meet the phwoarsome 'Bobby Wood' 😍. I'm not sure if it's because I recently turned 40 but apparently my 'type' is now an independently wealthy man nearing retirement with all the style of an ageing games how host and a fancy orange sports car. Apparently widowed, one child and lives in Denmark. Should I accept??

I had an argument with someone who rang up about the accident I (hadnt) had last week ... only to realise I was ranting at a bloody chatbot.

The damn things are so realistic nowadays.

On the topic, can you be scammed on Facebook? , in the guise of being told your comment has been deleted, a year after you made it 🤔 just a comment about glad someone saw dolphins,. Only possible cause for it is if put a random fullstop in between 2 words , thus making a link to a dodgy website, which the number of times I have done this ,I would never be on Facebook lol. It's easily done and I don't always notice its bought up a link til after sending I see a line under a couple of words Never ever look at link, can't see full comment though to see if this has happened

If he's not a general in the US marines but cannot afford to get airline tickets then I'd be surprised.

The trafficked ones wouldn't be filmed. Watch the documentary on BBC about the pig butcher romance scandal, I think it's called. The men are lured with promises of jobs and kept imprisoned. Tortured if they don't do what they are told to and it's abysmal. The scum running this compounds pay off local law enforcement so nothing is done about it. The guy filming himself in the doc managed to escape but it is amazing he was able to.

There are hackers on youtube that make videos revealing these scammers' identity. Not once has it been a trafficked slave, just young guys in designer gear from stolen money.

Brilliant love that answer,🤣 I had an argument with one they rang me saying I'd had an accident I said I hadn't, they actually had nerve to argue with me saying that i had, 🤔🤣 after saying I think I'd know if I had an accident, I hung up The nerve of them!

I got a text too for a PCN wouldn't open it though, just deleted , seem to be a constant thing these days, even on FB groups random comments and dodgy friend requests , ignore and delete or report

Don't click on links or reply, because they could hack your details or download a worm to your pc.

How are the scams going? I got a text one earlier today to pay a PCN notice with a link, I replied 'post them like actual companies do' :)

These get EVERYWHERE. I've had them on Quora (where I only post to give advice on writing-related issues). The ones that make me laugh are the ones on X (Twitter), complimenting me on how lovely I look and how they just know they want to talk to me. My Twitter profile picture is a dinosaur.

I noticed a lot of scammers target ppl posting on sites on every day topics. The I really like your posts, and think you are amazing. Add me to your fb friends blah. Its scary some ppl actually do.

I only saw one of a man in a surgeon looking getup and another of a man in a white suit behind a desk. Couldn’t even tell if they were the same person.

My mom and I actually met a man in the airport once who started telling us a story that sounded rather familiar. Mom is friendly and we were in a long line with him. He told us he was from Nigeria, then began talking about how he had some vast sum of money skimmed off a contract that he needed to move out of the country. He also told her if she’d allow him
to marry me he’d buy her any kind of car she wanted. 🤣🤣🤣

Oh I had one ring up about an accident, I said I hadn't been in one , he was quite adamant I had , I think I would know if I'd been in an accident lol ,

The stock answer to the ‘car accident’ scam call is “I’m soooo glad you called so quickly, only I panicked and put the bodies in the car boot and now they’re starting to smell…” said in a stressed voice.

I don't get the car accident scam. What is it actually about? I hang up on them but I always thought it's solicitors scouting for business to take a big chunk out of any compensation rather than an actual scam. Do they ask for money to take the "case"?

I say - " oh my god , am I ok ? "

When they ring up about the “car accident I’ve recently been in" just ask them which one 😁

Oh yes those bone doctors are mighty put upon in life. Widowed , skint and working for the UN. Who’d have thunk it

I bet he had a dog and a rose bush in his pic ? 😂

Aww, I would have accepted and sent him some money if only he had a wee boy at boarding school. Shame.