I am being catfished right now!

That story that @samarrange posted above from Vanity Fair is quite the read.
Given he was actually working as a surgeon, the way she met him and the fact he is good looking (if that's your type) I think many women would have fallen for his tales. I mean who wouldn't want to be taken out for Michelin starred dinners in Venice by a handsome surgeon who'd supposedly carried out pioneering surgery.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/celebrity-surgeon-nbc-news-producer-scam

Astronaut, yes can see he’d be short a bob or two and need some earth money for emergencies

😂My favourite (usual buzz cut silver fox type, FB message years ago) claimed to be...an astronaut.

I suppose it would be the ultimate good reason for not being able to meet in person "Sorry, on the ISS this month, but I need money for my sick hamsters knee operation"

I have the worst singing voice in the world. Think of an out of tune foghorn. When I got a yet another call from my local loft insulation bloke l let him have both barrels of "I will always love you" at top volume. He hasn't called back.....

Perhaps he is waiting to start his job on an oil rig with limited WiFi ?

Which will obviously be heart breaking due to the speed of your love story

And of course keeping in touch with that one child who's lost the mum in a terrible accident and boarding elsewhere

This was my life on Fitbit but it's all stopped now

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I know I’m getting old as I never get propositioned anymore, sigh

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I linked this article earlier in the thread. I still think she’s ridiculous for going through with it. She questioned them a few times then still went ahead with it. Everyone she spoke with had a “slight accent”. Did she really think our FBI investigators are all from other countries?

Sone of their original story matched what a scammer and his cohort told my husband. Rental car found on the border of Mexico with blood, drugs and money in it and it had been rented in my husband’s name. My DH kept them on the phone for about 30 minutes, playing along then eventually told him he’d been in a date with his mother, so whatever he’d done, she was in on it it, too.

Oh very much so, rugged, and a driveway wide enough for his and hers 4x4 and the matching Stetsons.

Does he like kittens though?

A man in a stetson makes my heart flutter, especially if it's slightly tilted down. Does he not look rugged like an old fashioned cowboy similar to Kevin Costner in Yellowstone? Pass him to me

Interpol .. not intercom😀

Intercom are coming to arrest me in the next few days for dodgy doings on my phone. They didn’t specify what I’d actually done..

And just had a friends request from a widowed American from Texas posing in his Stetson hat by his 4X4.

Really? Not even a heart surgeon? Not an Afghanistan veteran? No photos of him with Rusty, his elderly Golden Retriever? Just widowed? Don't I deserve better?

I keep getting calls from Housing Disrepair about my housing disrepair issues.

Provided I own my house I struggle to see what they can do for me. One of these days I will lose my usually contained temper and shout at someone on the phone.

Well I had an absolute corker of one yesterday and it was a new one on me. Grab a cuppa and make yourselves comfortable because this is what happened.

I get a phone call from someone claiming to work for a company that installs driveways. usually when it's cold callers and they ask "are you the homeowner?", they tend to end the call when I say "no, I rent", only this one didn't so my spidey sense stared to tingle a bit. Apparently my LL had told them to put a driveway up to my front door and all I needed to do was pay them (the "company" ) £100 which I would get back from the LL. Given that I live in a HA property ( a bungalow), I knew full well that they were talking bollox so I thought "let the fun begin".

Me " so you're going to put a drive right the way up to my front door"
Them "Yes, that's correct. Your LL has given us permission"
Me " So I will be able to open my front door and step straight on to the driveway"
Them "Yes"
Me " "Are you sure you can do that?"
Them " We are a highly professional company of course we can do that we just need £100 from you now"
Me " Ok but before I give you my bank details I have 1 last question"
Them " OK, but we really need to have the £ now"
Me " How exactly do you put a driveway up to the door of a 5th floor flat?"
Them <click, buurrr>

Poor man 😭 Robbed, stranded with his internet-connected phone, and no-one to ask for help except a stranger on the internet. I hope you sent him a taxi

I occasionally do admin on a large FB group. We get posts like this all the time.

"Can somebody tell me what to do please? I've had my wallet and phone stolen at Blackpool Airshow. I've got two toddlers with me and I can't get home! I just need £20..."

Erm on love so how one you've got access to FB and why is some FB group your first port of call?

There was some programme on the tv a while ago about catching scammers. They had hacked into their phone line / computer and were watching them call people live . While they were in the call asking for bank details the tv person texted the scam recipient (who hadn't twigged it was a scam) just saying SCAM do not pass on your details.

Yes, that's what you do. Only you look up the number yourself - don't take their word for it, and you call them from a different phone, in case they left the line open. And before you call, you have a lovely cup of tea, to give you time to process the info.

I had an email from someone I know on a group asking for amazon cards of course it was not her but it came from her email address. Another scammer emailed me saying they had videos of me doing something naughty and they would send it to all of my contacts. They would only stop if I sent them bitcoin I had to change my passwords to email that was last year.

yup, paediatrician,model and humanitarian robbed and reaching out to stranger online. Naturally I sent my helicopter and suitcase of cash plus a vat of La prairie skincare to a man in need and in disposed of his cash

Wow, catfished on LinkedIn, I've heard it all now!! Although it makes sense, why waste time on women who don't seem to be earning a lot.

Poor man 😭 Robbed, stranded with his internet-connected phone, and no-one to ask for help except a stranger on the internet. I hope you sent him a taxi!

I had man contact me via linked in. Said he was GOSH paediatrician short of cash to get home after robbery. Would I help him?

Not me lol!!