I am being catfished right now!

I had one of these last year who I kept going for weeks. He was, apparently, local to me but I knew immediately he was a cat fish. He couldnt meet up with me because he was sent to Iraq at the last minute on a secret mission as he worked for the MOD.

He saved a child from a kidnapping, terrorists were shot and as a thank you Mr Scammer was, wait for it, given a big box of gold bars! Obviously he couldn't take these home as he didn't trust anyone so he asked to send them to me! I said I didnt think that was a good idea so he said he'd have to risk it and bring them home himself. The next I heard he was in jail in Iran! Still had his phone though! I queried why he was suddenly in a different country and one that was also in the opposite direction of 'home'.

I can't understand why they think these absurd stories work - and equally can't understand why people would fall such ridiculous absurd stores. Kept me entertained for a while though!

Can I ask why? The locations of these scammers (who work in teams) are often in one or other African country.

They RUIN people's lives - absolutely RUIN them, taking them for every penny they have and often persuading them into debt.

I agree. You could have asked for bail money 😂

I think the OP worked this out before she started the thread. 😉

I've had them do the "Please can we be friends, message me" a few times via the small dog charity Facebook group (it's an open group, because it's about trying to rehome dogs) recently. They're always v good-looking "Americans" with dodgy English. I tend to respond with gifs.

But you could be missing out on the love of your life if he really is genuine… 😂

Hmmm sounds like they used juju on her. The scammers use black magic and rituals to scam people. God help us

@qualitychat Haha, that's hilarious. It's been lifted from the website 1001loveletters dotcom. I googled the quote and it's come up on several sites 😂😂

It's pidgin English. "Some guy from Africa", seriously?
I'm not Nigerian but I live there atm. It's a whole country with a lot more going on than bloody romance scams.
Yeah, I know no-one said it isn't but I get a shitty vibe from this whole thread.

My DH does this. He doesn't even drive.

I nearly fell for it once as they caught me about a week after I had been in an accident but because I'm fundamentally honest (unlike the caller), I refused to claim for an injury I didn't have.

I’ve had a few of these! DD begs me to engage and have some fun but I just cba 😂 so I ignore and delete.

IGNORE BLOCK AND REPORT this weirdo. DON'T GIVE ANYYTHING TO HIM AT ALL. DO NOT REPLY in any shape or form. The so-called ''nice looking man'' is either an AI generated image or he's nicked the photo of a genuine man off the internet somewhere.

It's amazing just how many have dead wives, loads of kids, are dirt poor, work in oil rigs/gas/energy/military/navy/pilots, all from Sweden, India, Africa and have moved to Texas, have absolutely appalling spelling and grammar, can barely ''speak'' English, are desperately lonely, want you to become their new wife and mother of their kids, they can ONLY message you on WhatsApp, Google+ or Telegraph ''as my highly dangerous job in top secret military only allows me to use those sites''. So if that's the case, how comes they're on FB/Twitter/Instagram?!

Then the next thing you know they want you to send or set up for them passports, want you to send money, bank details, want sexual photos of you and want to send them to you.

On Instagram my Profile photo was a hard boiled egg complete with shell as I swap them each month and I had within about 1/2 hour of posting the egg I received a private message from some blokey in Africa saying he likes my photo. ''u look loike a veri gorjus glamrus laidee i luv ur jet blak wavi hare un deep brown eyez wot model agunsy u cume from u have a purfic smile my family wuld b greatly honoured 2 have u as my wif and muthur of my cildrun cume to africa, i will mari u' IT'S AN EGG!

Please, qualitychat, don't waste your time with these freaks, they're all scammers who really don't give a toss for you.

Silly you should have said you are in talking to your barrister about the murder case you are going to court for. He could mail you to your jail cell.

That's exactly whatI thought. It's a tone deaf attempt to sound learned and poetic.

LOL. Then his love might turn to hate. He really hates Artie.

A good looking well liked doctor had to post online about scammers using his photographs to scam money off women. He has endless legal stuff, and threats sent to him from duped family members.

It is a possibility.
Only reason I am also suspecting the daughter is because after Mary died, things were still getting posted from her profile. Things like quotes about missing her mum , asking for funding etc so she had the log in details

The daughter is kinda known for asking for money from everyone and anyone and never have worked in her life, so I wouldn't put it past her.

I had one from Austin Texas who said he was originally from Paris! In the end started begging me to let him teach me crypto. He was a very good looking AI bot on a friendship/dating site. I use chatgpt so when he started talking like chatgpt my spidey senses started tingling! The irony is that I clicked on his profile thinking he was just a regular good looking American, and started chatting HIM up, and then when I told him I had been to Paris recently, he got really stressed out and started accusing ME of potentially being a cat fish and to prove it with a photo! 😂

To “ car accident” man I agreed I’d had an awful accident, head injury, had lost my memory. Rambled on about the colour of the car, how old it was etc then he asked a question. I had a car accident you know, I lost my memory, it was a lovely yellow car too, ramble ramble,. After about 5 rounds of this he hung up.

I've been friend requested by the handsome silver fox too. First time, (many years ago), I clicked on his profile as I assumed I must know him from somewhere - otherwise why would he message me. (Thought a club, work, school, choir etc). Realised he lived abroad. Was a bit confused, assumed it was a mistake and left it. Now I know what it was. But it wd have been very easy to get sucked in.

It is so easy to get scammed. Sometimes it's obvious - but sometimes it really isn't all. And if we really think about how much we do actually take on trust in life , it's quite sobering.

So, yes, I'm of the view that the more we make it NOT worth their while, the more we publicise the tricks they use, the better we protect everyone.

These people are utter scum. It's mad that some people believe it.

They mustn't be able to believe their luck

Are you sure the account hasn’t been hacked itself rather than it being her changing it? They like to use profiles with history to look more real than a new one

He’s using ChatGPT 😂