My first scam artist for today is this one
The first look at his profile of this Instagram user should set alarm bells going that it is fake. Beware the number of people he is following. Always in the hundreds or even thousands. Beware the number of posts - usually a small amount. Beware of the type of post: inspirational quotes, cute doggies, soldier images all easily lifted from elsewhere on the net. Look at each pic, paying particular attention to the first one and check the date it was uploaded, usually fairly recent. This combined with the number of followers probably mean the account has been restarted, had the name changed or just be altered in some way. This one just reeks of being fake and so it proved to be.
This is his backstory
- His name is Williams K Gayler (the name chosen often sounds like it could be American)
- He is from Washington DC
- He reckons he is in Kabul, Afghanistan for a peacekeeping mission (aren't they all???)
This guy came along at a bad moment for me; I really could not be bothered to string him along at all. He opened with the usual platitudes about beauty and smile and said he would love to get to know me by 'charting'. This is often a misused word when they actually mean chatting. Their predictive text lets them down or else they select the wrong one and is always a dead give away to me that this person is a scammer. He got blocked and reported straightaway.
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