Stupid Facebook scammers... yikes.

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Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 3:22 pm

Alright, now it seems some kind of Chinese scammers are using Facebook to contact business people for god knows what purpose. I can't imagine this being a very efficient way of finding victims, since it's impossible to really mass message people on there, and the risk of getting your account closed, or maybe even investigated by legal authorities is pretty high.

Anyway, i've had a couple of these contacting me, thinking i'm some sort of business executive working in construction or something for whatever reason, and with being out of scam baiting for so long, it took quite a while for it to really click with me that he was a scammer. This is the whole conversation, which was pretty typical:

4:57am
(HIM:)

hello
4:57am
(ME:)

yesdear?
4:57am
(HIM:)

are you here?
4:57am
(ME:)

uh yes
4:57am
(HIM:)

glad to know you
4:58am
(ME:)

okay?
4:58am
(HIM:)

are you interest in pvc pipe

hello
4:59am
(ME:)

look

this is the 3rd or 4th time i get some asian business person PMing me randomly

is it actually worth your time just PMing random people on Facebook like this? don't think so
5:01am
(HIM:)

I am sorry to trouble you

have you interest on my pvc pipe raw materials?
5:05am
(ME:)

just go away

and don't ask anybody else about this either

nobody else is going to be interested

if they ARE businessmen, working in construction or whatever, they aren't going to be making major business deals with someone who's randomly messaging them on Facebook
5:08am
(HIM:)

sorry ,but this is not random message. i search you at a pvc pipe communitication
5:08am
(ME:)

yes it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7Bje410D4
5:13am
(HIM:)

what's this?
5:13am
(ME:)

something you have to watch

to understand how to do business with me

and all other westerners, for that matter
5:17am
(HIM:)

thanks for your kindly advice, i am a new man in this field. but, why you send me this carton movie?
5:17am
(ME:)

cause it's part of world wide business practice

i see you're new in this field

then you need to send photos of yourself pouring ice cream over yourself, wearing nothing but a traffic cone.
5:18am
(HIM:)

but i can't understand the langue which the movie said
5:19am
(ME:)

well, too bad for you!
5:21am
(HIM:)

its not english
5:21am
(ME:)

neither are you.
5:26am
(HIM:)

i am an chinese, i can not understand korea langue
5:26am
(ME:)

oppa gangnam style
5:26am
(HIM:)

i know that
5:27am
(ME:)

you really don't get it do you?

i'm not going to send you any money

and talking to random people on here is just wasting your time, period
5:31am
(HIM:)

Okay, could you give me your email adress. i have something need your help
5:31am
(ME:)

go here http://forum.419eater.com/forum/index.php

this is the forum where the kind of businessmen you're looking for all meet

join and ask them for advice on there
5:32am
(HIM:)

thank you . you are really good person
5:32am
(ME:)

they're very helpful to people like you

you're welcome
5:33am
(HIM:)

can i make friends with you?
5:33am
(ME:)

i think you're better off making friends with people there

Anybody else had these kind of messages? What should be done? And what would happen if someone actually joined this forum looking for that kind of "deals" Surprised

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