Well friends, this time it happened on Agnostic.com

Some of you may remember, several months ago, there was a young woman chatting with me who expressed interest in meeting me. And that turned out to be a money scam involving i-tunes Gift cards.

This time, a user (whose profile is now deleted) contacted me here, and after a week of chatting by email, started saying she'd moved to Africa, and now was in need of support/help.

So, now that I have a couple of these 'charming people' on my blocked list, I thought it might me useful to put out a few piecesa of information that I found to be similar between all of them...

1. Lady is either a single mom, or a widowed mom of a small child
2. so far, the 'child' they have has always been a boy with an unusual name (last was was 'Ezra' ) who is under one year old.
3. There is always some reason for sporadic contact (i.e. phone was lost/stolen, out of subscriber time, etc...) and this often leads to the moment when they ask you for assistance.
4. they express a desire to meet you early on - far too early for any sane person to want to dive in (especially if they have a small child)
5. email or text responses will not directly respond to your last message text. I think they either skim for keywords, or have a bot do the skimming to construct something as a response that is just enough to make you wonder if the person is a real person or not.

Trust me when I say, they are not real. They are after money, and pull on heart strings to get it.

Fortunately, this post has nothing to do with ny post earlier today. I kinda felt from the get go that this was another scammer, so I played along to prove it.

At least my heart (and my wallet) are intact.