Re: Friend Requests
Originally Posted by
DWebb
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Yes there is a lot of trivia but I presume everyone on here is a real person and not some sort of automated bot
But what worries me is that some people are too trusting of people they have only met on-line, which can be a BIG mistake as I know to my cost. I have been posting on forums since the late 90s and at first took people at face value. As I have mentioned before, several times, a woman from Florida told a very distressing tale of woe, and I wanted to help her. I sent her the equivalent of £1000 in American dollars. When she realised that I wasn't sending her anymore money she fell out with me on-line, over something so trivial it was pathetic. I later discovered that I wasn't the only poor mug who had been taken in. She was clever, if she had actually asked me for money I would have been suspicious, and not have sent her any. Some years later I had an e-mail from her purporting to come from London saying she had lost her purse and could I lend her £2000, YEH RIGHT like I did. I ignored her e-mail and blocked her. I have also attracted a couple of stalkers, one threatened to visit our vicar daughter pretending to be in need of spiritual advice!
I have met up with several people I first met on-line, and with one exception they were nothing like they pretend to be on-line. They were ghastly, I left the forums on which I had met them. I was interviewed by the late John Peel for his Saturday morning programme. I related my experiences and warned people about being very careful about making on-line friendships.