Scammerama

As regular readers (both of them) will know, I like to wind up Ghanaian love scammers and get them banned from Facebook. Good news is that after a few months of inaction, Facebook is zapping fake accounts again - in fact, they have taken to warning me about fakes! They used to come back and say the account doesn't violate community standards. Now they zap them, almost on demand. It's very gratifying Take, for example, the lovely Aminizia Don Classic Busty Blonde looks - and lives in Ghana. Why is it almost always Ghana? I suspect that someone in Accra has made a killing and everyone wants to copy him Aminizia's profile checks out - although I suspect that her first name is actually Donald.  Unlike her lovely compatriot, Smith Saint.  A brunette - makes a nice change.  One gets so tired of busty blondes.  Well, no, that isn't strictly true, but it does show a little bit more imagination on the part of my scammer.  Not often you meet an Ebenezer...

Two photos of James Jennifer.  This is the first one: And this is the second.   What do you notice?   That's right, her tan has faded! At least they are both girls 😃 And why the reversal of the names? I've seen that in France and Germany where it isn't uncommon for someone to be SCHMIDT, Peter or MEUNIER, Jean-Jacques.  Particularly in a business context.  Not seen it among anglophones before.   Rather more common is Toxicity de Amino Dosterd.   Isn't Toxicity a lovely name?  Mr and Mrs de Amino Dosterd were inspired.  Toxicity is a pretty white girl, though strangely enough, all the other photos in her profile are selfies of a young black guy.   Perhaps a boyfriend?   Somehow I don't think so.

A pretty Chinese woman sends me a friend request.  She doesn't fit the pattern of the West African love scammers.  No boobs, for a start.   She seems pleasant enough, so I chat and wait for the scam to make itself apparent.   It's much more subtle than the love scammers.  In fact, to start with, if I didn't know it was a scam, I wouldn't be able to tell.  Eventually she gets to the point.  She has been investing in cryptocurrency and wants me to join in.   Yu Qing Ning is clearly doing well, but sadly my friend Josef Vissarionovitch lost $200k in a recent crypto crash (there's always a recent example of people losing vast amounts).  Miss Yu gives up and vanishes from my life.   It seems that Miss Yu isn't for real, to my amazement.  But I would never have guessed that she was a modern slave in a Burmese scam factory.  Check out this CNN exposé Here's where Miss Yu comes from