Are you addicted with those
dating websites and cam-to-cam chatting? Beware you might be the next victim of
these scammers and deceitful people.
It was charged to experience as others say.
I started joining these dating
sites six months ago. For a first timer encountering and meeting guys online
you feel “kilig factor” whether you’re a teenager, or late twenties. You are in
a cloud nine when your friend admires you or pay attention to your post
messages.
On the contrary you feel upset or
dismay when you like a person to be with, but he/she doesn’t. There was one time, I met this guy from
“Tagged”. He sent message, if I want to
be friend with him. I replied and gave my YM add.
It took us more or less than
three weeks getting to know each. Chat thru cam-to-cam basis. Suddenly one day,
out of the blue, he asked about my contact number and address.
I was puzzled why he wants to
know my other info. Hesitation and anxiously I felt. He said, he wanted to give
me some gift straight from his heart before his trip to Bahamas the following
day.
Behind my mind, if he was just
tricking me and testing me, it’s not my lost. Besides he was just a stranger
who doesn’t know my whereabouts. But in the end, I gave my other info he wanted
to know.
Then he emailed me. Upon reading
and internalizing every detail, there I found out there’s something wrong. The
agent and contact number indicated in the email sounds deceiving. The contact
number especially the country code is not a real number of UK or Bahamas.
Through adrenaline rush, I immediately sent an email.
Wouldn’t you believe it? After
one day I received a spam message from Him. See the logic? After sending the
gift (parcel) he will be leaving for Bahamas. So a journey from UK to Bahamas
takes time or perhaps day. You will be busy travelling and won’t be able to
update every email you had nor surf the net.
If the parcel was genuine, he
will call me before and give the very details of it. He will make sure that the
contact number I gave was really mine!
So in the end, the content of his
message was, he called the logistic responsible for the parcel, cancelled the
transaction and bid goodbye.
Whew!!!! What a surprised.
Luckily I have this presence of mind and didn’t let myself fall into his bait.
