Scammerama

Almost all the beautiful girls who want to share my life online try to persuade me to stop using Messenger and change to WhatsApp or Google Hangouts. Obviously they are up to no good, s o, naturally, I don't want to do this.   I do have WhatsApp, and even use it.   And I have had Google Hangouts ever since Mr and Mrs Google first invented it, though I haven't used it for years and years.   But of course I'm not going to say that to the scammers.   So first way to mess with their heads is to feign ignorance.  Well, I've worked in Tech Support, I can do ignorance.   "What is WhatsApp?" "Oh, for chatting on line?  I use a thing called Messenger" "How much does it cost?  Really?  Excellent" "Oh, I don't know how to do that stuff" Eventually she persuades me to try to download it from the App Store "Access Denied" "Am I doing something wrong?" Eventually I sug...

One good idea is to decline their friend request.  They go away and stop bothering you.  Problem solved.  But of course that leaves them free to scam other people, not all of whom will spot them for scammers.  So I like to zap them, hurt their business, waste their time and make them feel like dirt.  Hey, not all heroes wear capes. You want to know how? Okay, go to their profile, and tell Facebook that they are fake accounts.  Mr and Mrs Facebook have got much better at deleting fake accounts in the last month or two, probably because they have had adverse publicity.  Click on the More menu - the circle with three dots Select Give feedback or report this profile Press the button marked Fake Account, and SEND Click Submit to Facebook for review Tick the box marked "I believe this goes against Facebook's Community standards" (I'm pretty sure that trying to scam me out of a $200 iTunes card is against community standards) ...

Do you want money?  More commonly the scammers are offering LOVE. Are you male?  Then a pretty blonde girl from California wants to be your friend. Are you female?  Then I am sure you would like to meet a fit, hunky guy, often a military doctor service on active service in Afghanistan. Very occasionally SHE is a medic in Iraq or Afghanistan.  Essentially they have fallen madly in love with you.  In my case, of course, who can blame them?  It doesn't take them long.  They create a profile, stick up a couple of photos, and fall in love with me.  Ah, there's nothing like the natural look! I like reading, music, dance, the net, sports, animals, cinema, ballads, traveling, restaurants with friends, love, family, nature and many other things again. I hate lying, cheating, racism, brutality, war, disease, drugs, alcohol and all that is harmful to the individual.I am looking for friendship, trust and warmth human because for ...

So what are the scammers offering? This is Monica Gen, or possibly Gen Monica.  As you can see, she has forgotten to remove the Getty Images logo from her photo As I've mentioned elsewhere, it's not uncommon for the front picture to be a pretty blonde, harvested no doubt off the internet, and all the other pictures to be of someone else entirely.  Check out Monica Gen's Twitter handle - more often than not the scammer has forgotten to change it.  Monica tweets as Momaudu Ibrahim Sometimes they offer money.  It's a straight rip-off - you are eligible for $$$ and all you need to do to claim it is to send your bank details, or your credit card details, to some guy in West Africa.  Although obviously the photo is of a pretty blonde girl from California.  She just happens to be visiting Ghana at the moment.  Yeah, sure, Wilbur.  The English language skills usually leave something to be desired: Good day my Dear, Nice to meet you,how is...

I'm a Teri originally but these days I live in Astana Kazakhstan I run a small business importing frigate parts for the Kazakhstan navy I'm married three wives, Fatima, Samira, and Doris, and we have been blessed with 11 children  My secretary Olga is the mum of number 12, Anastasia I have a small herd of pedigree yaks, and most days I go up to the lake to feed them, and drink vodka with Yuri, the yak herd from Leningrad who came to Kazakhstan during the Afghan war and never went home. I am a Zoroastrian, guided by the holy prophet Zorro.  Only one of these statements is true.  And apologies to any Parsees reading this.  I do not mock your religion, but rather the ignorance of my scammers.  Not one knows that Zorro and Zoroaster are not related.   Not one has ever pointed out that Kazakhstan is 5000km from the sea.  Only one has noticed that my Facebook profile tells the world that I live in Bristol Still ...

Jenifer Samuel is Student of the Year at the University of Chicago.  She is studying "Economists" So of course I wondered what the Student of the Year would think of the biggest issue in Economics today, one on which PhD students will be writing their theses for years to come. It would be good to know what a scion of U Chicago Economics department thought of the issue.  Alumni include Bernie Sanders, Democrat party hopeful; Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, an economist on the board of the European Central Bank; and Gregory Chow, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Princeton University.   What is your view on Brexit? Well, she says "I think it is not good" Many people might agree with that, although others see it as an opportunity rather than a threat.  What do you see as the long term benefit? For some unknown reason she blocked me.

Emily Souzy is sad.  She is a beautiful blonde girl, but she has a very sad face. What's the matter?  She has a Problem.  She doesn't want to tell me at first.  Turns out she needs to pay $1500 to the University of Chicago where she is studying Sociology.  She doesn't have $1500. If she doesn't pay her fees, she can't graduate. She sends me another picture of herself looking sad, but gorgeous.  Did I mention that I am one of the richest men in Kazakhstan?  Lucky that I contacted the bursar Michael Kocelko.  My entirely fictional secretary found his number 773.702.xxxx.  Mike is on the U Chicago website and LinkedIn, hi Mike!   Turns out he knows MY entirely fictional accountant, they were at the University of Eastern Illinois together! Anyway, nice guy, I told him about Emily's Problem and transferred the $1500 to him.  First thing on Monday morning he will clear her account. For some reason Emily is not as h...