A woman got in touch with me recently saying she had been engaged in an online romance with a man who was using my pictures to misrepresent himself online. haha? Turns out he was a scammer. I wrote about what happened to her for the Huffington Post.
If it hasn't happened already, it's likely that somewhere down the line each of us will have been the mark of an attempted online scam of one kind or another. You may imagine some shadowy cabal of Nigerian gangsters targeting naïve senior citizens unschooled in Internet security, or anonymous-style hackers trolling for credit card information, and you probably wouldn't be too far off. But what does it mean when the face on the other end of the scam looks a bit more familiar? What if it's your own?
That's a question I confronted recently when I was contacted out of the blue by a recently divorced German woman on Facebook claiming to have been involved in a months-long burgeoning romance with a man she had never met. That man was me. Sort of. Her broken English only served to heighten the sense of disconnect from reality as she explained the details of her affair.
normally it is not my way to contact an absolut strange man at facebook, but it might be, that this i want you to tell is a little bit interresting for you. first sorry, because of my bad english, but i am a german and not otfen using english words. so, now the little story i want you to tell. you are not really a stranger for me, okay only your fotos are not strange, because a few month ago i got a friendship request from a man at facebook. i was a little bit curious to know more about this man, he sent me some fotos, fotos from you. now, four month later i found out the real identity of the man showing at this fotos are you and i found out that the man, who uses your fotos is an nigerian scammer.
My initial reaction to reading this was one of bemusement. Naturally someone would use a photo of me in a situation like this, I thought. Aren't I the handsome fellow. Read the rest
Also, kind of find it pretty hilarious that everyone who is tweeting the article out from the Huffington Post right now are the fakest looking group of robot Tweet motherfuckers I've ever seen. LOL. See the pic below.
Also, kind of find it pretty hilarious that everyone who is tweeting the article out from the Huffington Post right now are the fakest looking group of robot Tweet motherfuckers I've ever seen. LOL. See the pic below.
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2 comments:
You're the new Hasselhof for the Germans. Jah Luk ist sehr sexy.
I definitely thought she'd turn out to be a scammer.
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