American surgeon working for UN peace keepers in Syria sent me face book friend request AIBU to start messaging and see where it goes?

[Nimbostratus100]

Not really, obviously, just gobsmacked at the brass neck. Who are these people? How do they get my name? How many friend requests do they send out in an average day? how many people respond to them? I thought I recognised him from a local hobby group, so accepted the request, but have unfriended him now.

Is this a full time job for some people?

Do they make a living out of it?

Should we all give it a go and stop worrying about UC, sick pay, salaries, and pay rises?

Who has contacted you? What became of it?

Is anyone on face book ever genuine?

Genius 🤣

I used to love a bit of 'social catfish' where mostly women would write in usually after sending large amounts of money to their online (never met in real life) fiancée who was stuck in remote place oils rig, military zone or as a contractor in trouble ( no fault of his own) with the local authority. But after a while it became less amusing and just sad - these women were lonely and despite their friends and family telling them it was a scam they were still falling for it.

@pompomdaisy gosh thanks for that. I was going to ask him to remove my appendix

@Rantypanties maybe you're too young! These gentlemen seem to prefer mature single women. Anything to show you're 'soft/compassionat' goes down well. Don't bother putting lippy on, just put a charity frame around your profile, maybe something NHS or animal. Christian widows as well...

My friend in the military was due home last week but unfortunately he's been delayed. ....Major Roadworks

Ask him if he knows Shiek Yagoolie

I think we should vote for 1 person then ALL send identical messages on April 1st.

Pick Me Pick Me Pick Me

Your peacekeeping doctor's quite famous, @Nimbostratus100 😂 I think you should fly him to the UK, after putting loadsa money into his PayPal, and cement your relationship with this utter catch.

As well as a plethora of posts under the name Oluwakande - your Turkish/American Dr Erkan Yildirim seems to be quite down with the bros in Lagos - there's a whole web page about him! Lucky guy.
https://www.fake-scam.info/index.php?action=gallery;cat=21536;sortby=date;orderby=desc;start=120

I think people have got that 🙈😂

o no! Hes been unfaithful to me! I'm heart broken

😂@Nimbostratus100

😂 keep it coming

I get quite a few of these on Instagram, usually from America ( or so they claim). My profile picture is me & my husband and even putting that I'm married in my bio doesn't seem to put them off.

I'm totally doing something wrong I don't get any of these. They sound so entertaining

Damn you Eucalyptus! I’m 40 minutes late because I’ve been reading that with full on belly laughs and tears down my cheeks. 😂😂

I have the same name as a notorious goth rock start of the 80s/90s with a female stage name.

I was getting several messages and friend requests a week from "fans". I changed my FB profile name to first name-middle name, rather than first name-surname a few weeks ago. They seem to have stopped. 🤞

Someone should put them in touch with all the Eastern European beauties whose boyfriends don’t give them enough sex.

Gold medal is yours.
This thread has restored my faith in mn

@OlympicProcrastinator 😂 Apologies!!

@Turnipworkharder Her book will be hilarious!

Its a common modus operandi of the nigerian romance scammers.
They cast a wide net and it only takes one lonly old widdow to fall for it to make it very worth their while ..
Search for scamfish on youtube and you will see many many terrible stories of these poor people sending literally hundreds of thousands of pounds to these scammers who then live like kings in their 3rd world countries .

They've exposed these types regularly on the BBC programme 'For love or money', which, for anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend.

They've featured a number of people (mostly women, but a few men) who have lost astonishing amounts of money to these scammers. In one case, she lost all her savings, took out loans and lost her house - she was living in a caravan.

They do the research (reverse searching photos, etc and even contacting the real men behind the photos that have been stolen from facebook) and then get the victims into the office to show them. One woman in her 80s, scammed by what she thought of as a much younger man, said "But I LOVE him!" of this made-up person. A male victim, shown all the evidence that it was a scam, declared that he was still going to the airport to see if "she" turned up as promised!

Pilots, US military, and doctors.
It's cost me a fortune bailing them out, but I'm very flattered and look forward to them making the trip to come and see me.

My sister was caught by a scammer via a dating site.- she was freshly separated after a 20 yr relationship/marriage since university. Before that she was a serial monogamist from mid teens too. She didn't seem to have heard of cat fishers etc and just presumed any guy on old was who he said he was and those were his pics.

I was aware of it all but at that time didn't have much regular contact with her (different countries within the UK) and most importantly she never ever said anything to me when he started asking for money.
I don't think she told other family members either or they'd presumably have tried to stop her sending any.

All she told me was he he worked away and that she was surprised and feeling insecure because he was "well above her" on his photos.
She also mentioned some romantic, meeting at the airport when he came back )presumably he kept changing the date), having a little present bought for her already etc. I thought it was a bit full on and ott, but my sisters have always been absolute serial monogamists who got into relationships quickly and are all in from early on. (Her daughter is the same incidentally). So I didn't think much of it; but as I said; zero mention of any requests for money from he. think the scammers try their utmost to make sure the covtins don't discuss the requests and transfers with their family etc.

She "lent" him large ish amounts of money she could I'll afford and of course there was no recovering it.

*I think the scammers try their utmost to make sure the victims don't discuss the requests and transfers with their family etc.

No doubt they have several tried and tested techniques for doing so.