Your online safety..........

[Brian37]

I probably would have blocked you too.

My thoughts exactly

No, take any personal beefs you have with me out of this.

That same person was suddenly gone from that group just mere 2 hours later. They either deleted their thread and left or an admin kicked them out. 

The point of this thread isn't about my response to "her". I didn't chase that person out. 

I was giving everyone here advice as to red flags. You can still block someone and remain in that group. If you want to claim you would have blocked me to, you also could have stayed in that group.

Scammers don't stick around, just like a lagit biz, time is money to them. Lagit people stick around and lagit people will not care if you refrain from giving personal info, even when you friend them on FB.

[Losty]

I don't have any personal beefs with you whatsoever. My point was, in this scenario you are the internet threat. You seek out this woman because she happens to be pretty. Then you harass her PM box so out of pity she accepts your request and then you start accusing her of being some type of scammer. I would be super creeped out.

[Brian37]

I don't have any personal beefs with you whatsoever. My point was, in this scenario you are the internet threat. You seek out this woman because she happens to be pretty. Then you harass her PM box so out of pity she accepts your request and then you start accusing her of being some type of scammer. I would be super creeped out.

NO I did NOT harass "her" if it was a her at all, even in that thread I clearly explained I had no interest in dating anyone, when she finally accepted my friends request, she seemed polite and understanding and said she was simply busy. Even after that PM exchange she chatted me up in the thread.......The after two hours suddenly nothing. To anyone, and there was more than me in that thread, but I was the only one who was clear about liking being single, everyone else was drooling over her. And quite frankly it would not surprise me if this person had other fake accounts to make it look like others were talking to her, because most of her responses were one word like "wow," or "sexy" or emotocons with bulging heart eyes. 

I simply had smoked out a scammer who either left on their own, or got booted out by an admin.

If you want to smoke out a scammer, check their page, check the date it was made, check to see if they have a long history on other pages with themes you like, see if they have common friends with you already. But even if someone friends you especially after their first post, you never give out personal info, not even in PM. A lagit person will not care if you friend without exchanging personal info. That person set up a fake account to find a mark.

[Losty]

And she tricked you into sending her a friend request and PMing her when she didn't accept fast enough?

[Brian37]

And she tricked you into sending her a friend request and PMing her when she didn't accept fast enough?

NO, did you not read a thing I said? I attempted to go to her page, most people have their friends request button there for YOU to click on, this person didn't , so in a very POLITE WAY, I asked this person in PM could she send me a request. Which "she" did finally. And again, I had explained to this person IN A VERY POLITE WAY, I just wanted another fellow atheist(since this person posted in an atheist page) ONLY to talk to, nothing more.

Now quit implying or accusing me of things I did not do. I have been on FB for almost 3 years now, on every day, I learned within the first 2 months watching how others respond to fake accounts, and while I was polite with this person, saw it coming and sniffed them out. Otherwise that person would STILL be in that page, even if they had only blocked me. Please tell my you get that?

Nobody "tricked" me. I simply smoked out a fake account, otherwise this person would still be in that group, even if they were not talking to me personally.

[Brian37]

It is really no different than when admins here smoke out trolls and spammers. Sometimes they beat the rest of us spotting them, and other times they watch an interaction from a newbie and wait and see if they are lagit, and sometimes the mere members point out to them a possible spammer.

[Losty]

You've got paranoia issues. If someone doesn't have a friend request button perhaps leave them alone.

[Ludwig]

There is no easy way to say this, so I'm just gonna... say it. Reading your posts in this thread made me cringe, it actually made me physically uncomfortable. I don't say this to be mean, I say this because I think it's important that you realize and be honest with yourself about what kind of effect your writing has on others. If this thread is any indication of your normal behavior, then I'm sorry, but I'm not surprised that the lady on FB decided to block you.

[Clueless Morgan]

Lagit people stick around and lagit people will not care if you refrain from giving personal info, even when you friend them on FB.

2 lagit, 2 lagit 2 quit

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Dude, please spell it right: It's LEGIT

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[Silver]

The internet: serious business!