Okay, I have just had an extremely peculiar experience. I'd like to know if anyone else here has experienced anything similar, can suggest what it was all about, or if I have just accidentally picked up an authentic obsessed and devoted (cough) "fan".
I headed to bed tonight and popped onto a chat site to browse peeps and see if anything interesting occurred (read: bore myself to sleep). I spotted another user living in my county and so flung a half-hearted message their way to reach out. To my surprise she replied straightaway and asked if I had Hangouts. This instantly rung alarm bells as she knew nothing about me but I'm quite happy to kill time amusing myself with a fake/scammer. I like the thought that they think they're fooling me, I enjoy testing/studying their behaviour from a psychology POV, plus I feel like I'm providing a small service to humanity by keeping them busy so they can't scam someone more gullible. So I said sure, and we connected on said app.
I expected that within a few messages I'd be being asked to follow a link to a dubious site or to send money to a random account etc., possibly with the promise of online sexual activity being used to try to lure me in. Much to my surprise that did not happen.
She sent a couple of "live" pics and she looked too good to be true, suggestively dressed without being overly revealing. We talked a little without giving too much away. I was careful only to send a couple of live (face) pics which could not be reverse image searched and linked to any online profiles/accounts of mine, so the only information she had was my (not primary) email address. I tried to trip her up by checking her age; 35, matching what she had listed on the chat site. So I assumed some sort of long game was being played. Chat for a while, maybe get flirty, THEN ask for personal info/money/whatever.
That didn't happen. After half an hour tops she was calling me sweetheart every other line, and by the time an hour had passed she was couldn't stop telling me that I was the best thing to happen to her, I made her so happy, even that she loved me. Nobody talks like that about somebody they just met, and she knew virtually nothing about me. Her grammar slipped occasionally and she had an Eastern European look about her so I became more and more sure this was a scam of some sort, but it was entertaining so I rode it out.
I tested her again, asked to see her again. She sent a couple more "live" pictures, wearing the same as she had been before but now with glasses on too... seemed to pass that test. She just got more and more intense about me, without getting sexual. Seriously the stuff she was writing even after half an hour was like poetry.
Then she said she started to feel tired and should try to sleep. We said our goodnights, and that was it. An hour and a half with no scammy behaviour of any description yet with behaviour which just doesn't add up.
I know I'm an overthinker sometimes, but what the fuck was that? I am having great difficulty believing that genuine peeps typically offer their email address to a total stranger after just a hello, let alone that such a person should also turn out to be a drop-dead stunner who decides after 30 minutes you're the man they've been waiting for their entire life when they still know next to nothing about you.
She definitely appears to have gone to bed/sleep. She wasn't on the chat site we met on whilst we were talking (I kept checking) or since, nor Hangouts in the hour since we said goodnight.
If this is a scam, what's the play? The only thing I can think of is somebody using saved photos from a series and being generally bored getting some kind of kicks. And if it's not a scam, well oh crap... 😂🙈
What do we think? @Lurker I'd say you aren't allowed to laugh, but you can, I probably bring this shit onto myself 😂