There has been something going on lately and felt that I should share so that you can be aware of some of the things that does go on out in the internet world.  These all are things that have happened to me and how I learned to know looks are deceiving.

My first experience was when I first came online and was with a nice looking guy from Colorado – my first clue should have been nice looking guy (hehe) well anyway we chatted and supposedly got to know each other – we shared quite a bit of info and he use to write me poems and they were really nice – you know the kind a gals like hearing.

Well, in meantime, I also met another guy from Kansas City and same kind of info – divorced, one kid, looking for the love of his life, serious relationship, travels with his job etc.  Now here comes the interesting part and why looks are deceiving.  I was chatting with another friend one nite and we were looking for a picture for a project that we were working on at the time and lo and behold there was the picture of this guy from Colorado – hmmmmmmmmm

So that nite I asked for him to share more pictures of himself and he did – and then I went back to site where we were looking for the pictures and what did I find that you can buy a set of pictures of this guy lololol   So what do you think that this person behind the scene was doing.  There are many sites out there that you can buy actors and actresses pictures – sure makes it easy for people to set up fake accounts.

Needless to say I deleted this contact but here is the rest of the story – in the meantime the guy from Kansas City happened to be sending me some poems that he had been writing also and can you believe he was stupid enough to send me the same poem that the guy from Colorado had sent me.

Why am I tell all this – well I just wanted to make people aware that not people are not who they say they are.  There are people from other countries that hire guys and gals to pose and prey on you, build your trust and then something bad happens and they need your help – well your help is MONEY – so don’t fall for this.

Over, the years I have gotten so many of these fake contacts and their lingo is about the same – divorced or widowed, one child and works in another country and travels alot.  Now here is a quick way to find out if you should even consider chatting with them is ask to see some family pictures – pictures of his kid and him or her together – this is usually where they run into problems as they have plenty of pictures of themselves and pictures of their so called kid but none of them are together.

Now, this don’t only happen with personal profiles but I ran into a situation on Facebook the other day – met a gal from the UK and she was a vp from GMC – well we were messaging each other and she offer me a part-time job and gave me a link and to send in my resume to the PR dept and use her name as a reference.

Well, here is the funny part – this just sounded too good to be true and trust your gut instinct people – the job that I was being offered had an official site online – well to most it would have been – but there were some key things that popped out at me and I went and got Craig (my detective) and he confirmed my suspicions.

Now since then, I have messaged this person back calling them on their bluff and their fake site and I find it funny that the person is no longer on Facebook – they have just disappeared.  The bad thing about it is – is the person that contacted me was a real name and some of the info about her was true when we she was looked up on Google  – so just wanted to make all of you aware – looks are deceiving and you have to be on your toes at all time as there are many out there just trying to come up with ways to con you.