Saturday, April 22, 2017

Social Media Fraud Alert!! (Part 1)

The purpose of my post is to warn people about a fraud that I have recently encountered. However, I think he is the unlucky one to have picked the wrong person... ME!

On Tuesday (18 April 2017) morning, I received an FB Friend Request from a stranger. And when I receive such requests I would usually click into his profile to see more details and it looked like this...


I also noticed that he had common friends with me, a few of my ex-colleagues. I usually do not accept people I don't know nor seen before into my Facebook. This time I decided to accept because I saw Incheon, Korea, and I was telling my friend that maybe I could practice my Korean language with him. People... don't be easily deceived by their profile picture. Real people with face like this don't need to do random FB Friend Requests okay.

Immediately after I accepted his Friend Request, he sent me messages via the FB Messenger


Till this point I really thought he wanted to be friends and I was disappointed that I wouldn't be able to brush up my Korean after all... And so the messaging for that day continued like this...


Still sounded dodgy so I did not let my guards down for even a moment. I just wanted to see how far this goes. When I got home after work that day, I even showed my husband the whole chat conversation... so in case some of you are wondering... Yes, my husband is fully aware about this!

Then next day came... the messaging started again.


Whoah... when he asked for my Whatsapp number, I really did hesitate for a long time. But I wanted to reel him in to see what he's got in his little back of tricks... so I gave him my number. (Sorry... I had to blur out my number here.)

And just as expected, whatsapp messages from him came in immediateley.


I'm impressed... he even made it looks legit by using a UK phone number. All my answers to him are true and not made up but was very careful with what I say.

The next day, whatsapp messages came in again like clockwork...


I even included photos to make him think that I'm really interested in this whole conversation with him.

Later that day, the messaging continued...


Wow... up till now, he really sounded like a real caring guy. Sad to say but some girls or ladies could have been easily drawn in with all that attention. Check the "Dear"s and the "Angel"s that he's been using. Those were really my goosebumps moments.

Now the next day was a more exciting day coz you could see the London Bridge Falling Down 😜


Jeng... jeng... jeng.... And so the song begins...


Woohoo!! You're the only one I care for? Because I want your happiness? At that time, I was having lunch with my girl friends and we were having a ball reading this!

Now be ready for the next part... if you're not good with geography, I suggest you have Googlemaps on the standby...


By this time, we were laughing our asses off!! OMG... he didn't do his homework!! So, people.... please don't trust people blindly. Go do some research and the easiest way is to ask Mr Google!!

Then all of a sudden, he announced that he have closed his FB account...


And when I tried to go deeper, he said he had to go take a shower... We translate it as... he need to go do his homework about Musicals.

And by the way, I checked using my FB account, he seemed as though he really closed his FB account. But he actually didn't coz he's still there when we used another FB account to look him up. I think he just blocked me. 😂😂

That's all for Part 1... I'll continue Part 2 tomorrow. Yes... there's more to this. So, stay tuned!

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