I am being catfished right now!

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I received a friend request on Facebook just now. This is definitely someone catfishing me. He comes from Austin, Texas but has pigeon English. He is a Marine Engineer living in Sweden. He does a very dangerous job. He is a nice looking man, he has sent me a photo. He tragically lost his wife 5 years ago due to medical negligence. Am I wrong in stringing him alone?

I think you need to have some sort of profile stating that you're single/divorced/widowed to attract the full Stetson wearing/Army General/neurosurgeon/astronaut experience 😀I believe that's what they pick up on, and possibly age too.

@Justsaynonow that Apple TV series looks AWESOME. I don't have apple tv. why don't I have apple tv?

Ahaa @Uricon2, well i fit into the right criteria, but have no social media accounts (bar MN) thats obviously where im going wrong! hey ho..

If you want to bag yourself a Stetson wearing astronaut surgeon with a military background (and a very poor command of written English, strangely) you know what you have to do!😎

@Uricon2 I just added that description to my image generator 😂

Not really, my profile picture is a mug shot of my two dogs.

They are gorgeous though!

😀

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.

This made me laugh so hard

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!

David Tennant messaged me the other night. As DT famously is not on any social media, I assumed he must have been sleepwalking when he asked me what I thought of his latest appearance in Dr Who.

No I just wouldn’t have the time in my day for it to be honest

@WilhelminaC given that the thread is people laughing at scammers, I think OP probably knows this 😉

Oh give him your best and ask for money to help you arrange a marriage! X

Aww I thought you were serious! I didn’t know you were stringing him along! Lol

@Echobelly you are killing me, I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂

Reverse image search him on google.
Deffo a scammer.

Block it and report.
It may seem a bit of fun, but things can quickly turn to your disadvantage.
These scumbags have only one thing of interest and that's getting what they can from the victim, usually money. Empty promises!

I'm going to a romance fraud webinar tomorrow called 'Keanu Reeves is not in love with you' which I'm quite looking forward to. (I mainly signed up because I thought it was quite funny to put that in my work diary, tbh.)

Why do you want a Swedish oil rigger in a Stetson when you're FB friends with Prince Harry? C'mon, a Duke or something surely, one of the loadsamoney ones (not calling you shallow) 😂

Actually, when you see the ridiculous nonsense we've been subjected to, which is a tiny fraction of what must be going on, it really brings home how prevalent this stuff is.

They get all these messages off the net 😂 I strung one along once but I considered it my duty to stop him doing it to someone else more vulnerable 😂

well, of course he’s not. He’s in love with me. —off the check new friends requests on FB-

It would be rude not to after tantalising us like that! Let’s see how long it takes him to ask you for money for some “equipment” he “needs for his job” (he’ll pay you back as soon as the mysterious problem with his bank is sorted out, obviously), and then turn nasty when you say you’ll pay the bill directly instead of putting the money in his bank account. I DEMAND that you strIng him along and keep us all updated.

Your post made me think of this! 😄

These are scams , can’t believe it still going , I had this one 10 years ago