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Rowan
Elite Baiter
Joined: 15 Feb 2013
Posts: 1348
Location: In the back room, being naughty
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Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:24 am |
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So I get a message to the effect that this poor FB user is penniless, sick and depending on his brothers and sisters to find him a place to sleep, could I please consider sending him some charity. Jesus bless me, blah, blah, blah. I followed his profile link to see if I could learn anything. His profile is pretty much open to the public, so I checked it out. He has some nice pictures up there. Very interesting indeed.
He wouldn't have found me because I keep myself as private as possible on FB, but he's a friend of a friend who games. I've warned the friend that this guy is using his friend's list to try to scam people.
Honestly? Facebook? Approaching people on Facebook works for scammers?
I saved the profile link if anyone wants it for any reason. I blocked the guy, myself, because it kind of creeped me out, not that I would have baited someone who messaged my FB account. |
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rattlesnake
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 30 Mar 2012
Posts: 949
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Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:53 am |
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It could be a beggar, which we don't bait. |
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Dorothy
Baiting Guru
Joined: 09 Jul 2008
Posts: 3114
Location: somewhere over the rainbow
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Sun Mar 10, 2013 4:32 am |
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As Rattlesnake said, we don't bait beggars.
But as far as trying to pick up vics on facebook goes, it is a very common occurrence. Over at scamwarners we see romance victims (or near victims) every day who met their scammers on facebook--and my baiting profiles have numerous real scammers as friends--because they approached my characters with friend requests. |
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Rowan
Elite Baiter
Joined: 15 Feb 2013
Posts: 1348
Location: In the back room, being naughty
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Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:53 pm |
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Beggar or scammer, he's not hurting any from the looks of things. Hopefully people will notice that before being fooled into sending him funds. |
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Nailgunner
Baiting Guru
Joined: 01 May 2008
Posts: 8727
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Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:36 pm |
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Facebook can be a great baiting tool. It adds realism to a character and lets you spread a bait across multiple baiters (and scammers  )Run in parallel to an email and phone bait, it brings a richness and aroma to a bait that lesser social media systems cannot match, rich meaty chunks ... cont. p94 |
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