Hey Everyone,
A friend recently shared some screenshots of an extraordinarily beautiful "woman" who was trying to to contact him under the premise of supposedly being interested in him. It didn't take long before "she" was asking him to send her money (specifically, US dollars) so that she could "take care of a few things."
Fortunately, this guys has seen all the lines and knows not to fall for them.
With internet pickups/dating apps now being an everyday thing, it seems most everyone would also know about their common pitfalls, such as the myriad of scammers who are phishing for money.
I would have to guess that pretty much everyone who participates in such sites on the internet knows all about these scams and how they're carried out.
But yet... People still seem to fall for them all the time. I wrote a post a while back about working in a store with money transfers, and how we saw several elderly people who were literally sending thousands of dollars every week to their "friends" and "significant others." These "people" were always in other countries, had never met the senders, but were always "in trouble" and "needed money." We even asked the police to speak to one particularly sweet elderly woman, but she refused to accept that anything "phishy" might be going on--until she was taken for about $5000--and then she wanted the police to do something about it.
* Why is is that people are so willing to believe something right in front of them that is obviously a lie?
* Do they somehow think that they are going to be the exception, and yes, that gorgeous 25-year-old model REALLY DOES want to marry them, if only they send them $500 after the first conversation?
* Have you ever had a situation (it can be anything, not just a dating situation) in which you could see all the red flags, but went ahead and took the bait anyway?
Why, despite all the warnings, are we often so quick to throw ourselves into the trap?
A friend recently shared some screenshots of an extraordinarily beautiful "woman" who was trying to to contact him under the premise of supposedly being interested in him. It didn't take long before "she" was asking him to send her money (specifically, US dollars) so that she could "take care of a few things."
Fortunately, this guys has seen all the lines and knows not to fall for them.
With internet pickups/dating apps now being an everyday thing, it seems most everyone would also know about their common pitfalls, such as the myriad of scammers who are phishing for money.
I would have to guess that pretty much everyone who participates in such sites on the internet knows all about these scams and how they're carried out.
But yet... People still seem to fall for them all the time. I wrote a post a while back about working in a store with money transfers, and how we saw several elderly people who were literally sending thousands of dollars every week to their "friends" and "significant others." These "people" were always in other countries, had never met the senders, but were always "in trouble" and "needed money." We even asked the police to speak to one particularly sweet elderly woman, but she refused to accept that anything "phishy" might be going on--until she was taken for about $5000--and then she wanted the police to do something about it.
* Why is is that people are so willing to believe something right in front of them that is obviously a lie?
* Do they somehow think that they are going to be the exception, and yes, that gorgeous 25-year-old model REALLY DOES want to marry them, if only they send them $500 after the first conversation?
* Have you ever had a situation (it can be anything, not just a dating situation) in which you could see all the red flags, but went ahead and took the bait anyway?
Why, despite all the warnings, are we often so quick to throw ourselves into the trap?
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