Is this a scam?

[gingertesco]

Contacted Facebook attractive male just looks ordinary.

He messaged:

Hi, your profile photo just caught my eyes and I appreciate your beauty; I hope we can communicate

Sounds like a bot

Then this

This was exactly how I got your profile when I signed into my face book page and suddenly your pictures was showing on my page suggesting you to be my friend so I decided to send you a friend request and see if there will be any responds.

What's a bot?

Yes sounds like it. Check how many friends he has and who they are. And what pages he likes

Friends hidden! The guy looks really ordinary too.

My response,

Yeah thanks for the compliment me but I too suspicious of strangers on the net. Good luck

Then this ,

you are suspicious or you are surprise?

same here,i hardly chat with people on net.

most of the time you meet people in different way.

have you chat with people on net before?

Then I replied,

Ok may be in a year after seeing your posts evolve I will get more chatty. Take care x

Yes, this is a scam. Judging by the messages it is probably a bot, although possibly a real human who does not have English as their first language. A bot is like an AI computer programme that mimics human conversation. Some are very sophisticated.

If you continue to reply it will eventually try and get some of your personal details, get you to click a link, get you to send it money ... something like that.

You should block the account. I recommend tightening up your facebook privacy settings: make sure only your friends can see your profile, and maybe change it so that only friends can send you messages. Don’t bother replying to messages from strangers in future, they are pretty much always scams.

What @lightuptrainers said, or you're going to shortly regret it methinks.

What difference does it make. It would weird me out if I was a woman and somebody got in touch like this that I didn't know.

As an average looking, 40 something I’ll occasionally get messages like yours telling me how beautiful I am, what a gorgeous smile etc etc along with totally random friend requests. I block them. I don’t need compliments from unknown men of the internet.

I used to get these all the time until I tightened up my security settings.

Block the account and don't respond, it's a fake account.

Of course it's a scam

I think we all know deep down if we have the sort of beauty that would attract random attractive men to message us on Facebook. I would suggest that for the vast majority it's more likely to be a scam!

100% fraudster.

I had one of these. My profile picture is my dog...

It's the first step in a classic romance scam. Block and tighten up your settings.

Why are you accepting messages/friend requests On Facebook from people you don't know? Do really you not know anything about social media scams and security?

It's because of my job I have less secure setting. These replies are funny 😁. His last post was asking for a video call. How does a bot do that?

Ugh, if it really was human, I'd be more creeper out than flattered.

of course it is a scam - were you seriously asking this or being funny?

Block and move on

I don’t think it’s a bot just a man from another country who possibly wants a visa

It wouldn't matter to me if it's "a scam" or just someone who thinks it's fun to send messages to women he doesn't know on Facebook. I wouldn't want to talk to him either way.

Really can't see why you are trying to figure this out, there's always going to be fake profiles/scammers as long as there is social media. Just block & get on with your day. Unless you want to talk to the bot or lonely scammer who is probably other side of the world. This is why I deactivated my FB, got fed up of the availability for absolutely anyone to contact me, p.s I had many messages like you have just got, it's very common.

This reminds me of when my mom deliberately opens up the spam folder in her emails, reads the spam and then tells me outraged what the spam says while wondering why they have chosen to send it to her specifically