I thought I would do this thread as a warning to others/
I have been using facebook for a few years. I only have about 23 friends on my account because I am not the sort of person who adds people just for the sake of it. The people on it who see my profile are genuine people in my life whom i know well. A couple of days ago I got a facebook friends request from a male and I did not know him. Naturally I declined the request because I did not want him to see my full fb profile. Against his request, he had mutual friend listed and it was someone I know well from my personal life who is on my profile. At first I thought well he must be ok if he is on her profile, but I still do not know him so I am going to be cautious. His profile picture showed him dressed as a doctor. I thought no doctor would do this but people are people and you never know what even a professional gets up to in their personal life.
I was curious so I looked at his facebook and it showed his friends list and that was when alarm bells started ringing because he had a few friends on his list bu they were all women. When he answered my fb message he said hello gorgeous how are you you are beautiful in your profile pictureee. I said who are you and how did you find me i dont know you. He said he was searching for someone and came across my fb and liked how I looked and decided to add me so we can be friends. I said wehre do you live and he said Los Angeles originally but now i live and work in Yeman.
Before he said this, I had looked online and researched these people and it said most of the fake profiles from men wanting to scam or entice women will say they are from Yemen. At that point I blocked hidm and reported him to facebeook. I contacted my friend on fb who is also attached to this man on facebook and she had him listed on her fb as a friend and said he is dangerous. She read the message but so far has not responded back. I said to her who is he he is on you fb and is now trying to get on mine and I think he is using a fake account. She still has not responded. When I next see her I will talk to her about it and see what she says. I cannot believe she has allowed this fake man to be added to her account and he can see all her profile, her friends (unless she has set her account to say no friends to show) and all about her personal life etc.
It really makes me wonder how women can be scammed by men like this. I do not know what his motives are. I wokuld not send moneye to anyone over the internet that I did not know or would I be fooled by a man telling me he fancied me and could we start a relationship. The next thing that puzzles me is that you get a lot of vloggers on youtube and they vlog all about their life and have hundreds of followers. these vloggers are doing it for a job and they get paid for doing it. I follow a couple of them out of interest but that is all. Why would someone want to vlog their life for any stranger to see. My life is private and only certain people know about it.
I just thought I would put this out as a warning.