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So this strange girl requested on my FB?

Someone i dont know requested me on FB. I added her the next day she emailed me sent 2 pics. She then text me looks like from some messenger program, i didnt respond. She just message me via FB. Asked if i had a Yahoo Im account, i said no. She then ask can i open one up. I then said i can just talk to you through FB messenger, she then said no she prefers Yahoo IM. I told her i would add her to AOL AIm she said, she doesnt like using that. I then said can we Im through a cell phone. I then told her Ill talke to her late. Apparently she is from TX which is a thousand miles away from. What is this about ? Is it some scam? Is it some 12 yo boy pretending to be a girl? Thanks for any input on how to proceed.

Update:

*meant she asked me if i had cell phone...Just curious is this some BS or a actual girl/person?

Update 2:

Thanks... i would never send any cash to anyone I didnt know..Im no sucker....Grew up in a tough neighborhood so im use to seen all kinds of scams..i was just curious if it was just a person trying to make a new friend or a scammer...

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  • 9 years ago
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    100% scam.

    There is no girl in Texas. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. Scammers love Yahoo IM and experienced scammers can chat with 6-8 victims at once.

    The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses and will demand you pay, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

    Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

    Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

    You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

    Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

    Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

    If you google "fake facebook scammer", "fraud Western Union love scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

  • 9 years ago

    This is why you don't add people you don't know to Facebook. These are scams trying to steal your money and your identity

    Do you know how many people's home have been robbed because they posted a status like "Off to Hawaii for a week" or "can't wait to go out of town this weekend" and some random person they have as a friend saw it and decided to rob them

    And why would anyone ask you to use Yahoo IM instead of chatting through Facebook unless they were trying to pull a scam. And never give your phone number to anyone you have never met

    Defriend her and stop adding people you don't know.

  • 9 years ago

    That is plain being stupid if you know that you don't know her then why would you add her in the first place you should know better your self not to add random strangers what if that girl or guy or whatever is some stalker or some killer!!!!

  • 9 years ago

    1) Unfriend her.

    2) Report her.

    3) Block her.

    4)Unfriend mutual people to her.

    5) Block them as well.

    6) Continue with your happy Facebook life. :)

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    5 years ago

    I would message him!

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