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Originally Posted by DonnaNi4os
What does it get you? On the positive sides you get in touch with people you haven’t seen in many years. Personally I enjoy that. However, it can be very dangerous. I’ve gotten messages that say they have read my messages and, “even though you don’t know me, I find your messages interesting and I’d like to get to know you better”!!!! These are usually from men. In a case like that I block them by clicking on their name, hitting the 3 dots at the top right and hitting BLOCK. We must be vigilant to protect ourselves. It can be very dangerous in cyberspace.
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Yes and you are very right to block these people. Usually there image is of someone in uniform, but the reality is its someone from extremely poor country sat in an internet cafe with many others who are trying to get money from people.There targets are usually women, and if they message enough they will get one that will except them, and there starts the 'online romance', followed by requests for money, and so many women have fallen for it.My friends daughter even, who is a different generation to us !He told her very quickly he had fallen in love with her, then came the requests for money, he said he wanted to see her as soon as possible and would she send him money for the airfare, and she did. And guess what the plane got cancelled!So then she sent him a second lot of money. My friend had to involved social services to get through to her daughter that it was just a scam, but it was hard going. She really thought someone loved her....Its very very sad.