I am being catfished right now!

Really tired of this.

"70% of scams originate from Nigeria & Ghana" is not the same as "70% of Nigerians & Ghanaians are scammer".

Mind you, if your grasp on basic logic is that weak, I've got a beautiful house in England to sell you for a tenth of its value. Cash only because I'm being hunted by a terrifying gang and need to disappear. Was thinking of relocating to Ghana. Bank transfer acceptable.

Obv I am old and ugly as I never get propositioned (although Prince Harry wants to be my Facebook friend apparently ). My car tax is frequently overdue -(which is worrying as I don’t drive) One guy wanted to come and quote me for a loft extension as they were installing one further down the street, which was clever as every house in the street has flat rooves. My national insurance number is constantly being compromised in Wales, and there must be a warehouse full to the brim with parcels that can’t be delivered until I pay a tenner. But I am still waiting for a Swedish oil rigger in a Stetson to sweep me off my feet.

I've had an instagram follow request from Martin Kemp, Owen Wilson and Robbie Williams this week, which is strange because I don't follow any of the 'real' celeb accounts. Out of interest I accepted Robbie and he instantly responded with 'my dear fan, you are quite the lovely, which of my works would you say is your big fan?' so it's definitely the real RW. When I declined to answer, he followed up with ??? after which I blocked him.

I'd be interested to know what financial help Robbie Williams needs. If you're reading Rob, lend me a tenner til payday and I'll tell which of your works is my big fan.

I get two frequently:

1. They've installed a trojan on my computer and can see I'm looking at porn websites and have caught me on camera but if I send them bitcoin they'll make an agreement with me to erase it all- a very polite email telling me not to worry, rest assured he will destroy the original copy if I do this 😆
2. Some guy in China tells me I have inherited millions from a relative in China whom I didnt know I had and if we agree it keep it secret between us and I send him money for legal fees he'll transfer my massive inheritance forth with (I have the most British name ever so not sure why they cant target people who are actually likely to have relatives native to China).
3. The usual ones claiming to be from McAffee, EE, Royal Mail, Fedex etc but sent from email addresses like: [email protected]

The third ones remind me of this:

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.

You’re literally proving @Lassiata point.

I can’t stand the scammers from any country but there’s no need for comments like this.

If you lack the cultural education to know there is so much more about Nigeria just say so. No need to insinuate it’s merely a haven of fraud.

i enjoyed a nice chat with a man calling about the ‘car accident’ I had last year. I described ‘the accident’ in a lot of detail for him, and he was ever so kind about it all, I think he got suspicious and hung up after I told him that auntie Mary’s head had fallen right off and never been found 🤣

Oh ffs it’s the AGE OLD scam that’s been going on FOR YEARS!
BLOCK THUS PERSON & REPORT them to Facebook
these people just STEAL photos from the internet & contact people like yourself!
don’t converse with them anymore ! STOP while you’re ahead! Or they will start asking for money!

My DH is Swedish! 😁

I know this is a mostly lighthearted thread, but this is horrible. The poor boy and his family.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13124513/private-schoolboy-suicide-snapchat-photos.html

The conversation did get kind of steamy

You’re so right! There’s more to it than romantic scams!
They also ‘buy’ mobiles on eBay and send some pretty convincing emails out convincing the seller the money is in a holding account and will be paid on as soon as the item is dispatched!…. I had 2 Nigerians ask me to post a mobile out to Nigeria.
They were so convincing, luckily I’ve got a suspicious mind and didn’t send anything!
Sadly when scammers come from certain countries 9 times out 10… Then people tend to stereotype and you can’t really blame them

I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, I can only assume maybe it works if you find a lonely woman who also has very poor English and doesn't know Anglo accents, but I'm then not sure how they get money out of anyone because they're going to have a hard time explaining that. 😑

surprisingly it does work. Not read the full thread so it may have been mentioned but there’s a show on YouTube called catfished and American people have handed over hundreds of thousands to these scammers.