Thread:Chrise Stareshine/@comment-33611550-20180406180426

Hi Chrise,

You’re probably wondering why I don’t appear to want to be friends with you. The truth is I was badly burned when I first started getting friends.

I had 1 friend who I used to chat to here, where everyone else could read our conversation. Eventually, we swapped email addresses and started communicating privately. I sent her (I assume she was a her - it could have been a man from Nigeria or Ghana pretending to be a she for all I know!) a photo of me to show her that I was genuine, but she made the excuse that she didn’t know how to take a photo on her mobile or any other gadget she had. This to me was highly suspicious. She said she did quilting and sent me pictures but I now wonder whether they were just copied from Pininterest.

Anyway, we communicated by email for about a week and then she emailed me saying she hadn’t been able to access her bank accounts as she had forgotten to advise her bank of her change of address. I thought this was a very strange thing to be emailing me about until I wondered whether she was phishing, hoping that I would offer to help her out with money. Instead, I emailed her back saying she was rather silly forgetting to tell her bank of her new address and that a lot of Brits will get conned out of thousands of pounds by believing that they’ve met a nice man online who then tells them that they’d like to meet up but don’t have the airfare. So the stupid woman coughs up the airfare and the bogus boyfriend the other end never books a flight but pockets the money! In other words I knew all the tricks of a con and wasn’t going to be had. I then asked her what nationality she was.

Needless to say it all kicked off and there was an almighty row going on. I still maintain that telling me she couldn’t access her accounts was a very strange thing to tell a complete stranger!

So now I tend to stick to the game and don’t get involved with anyone. 