Quite frankly, I really do not know where to begin, so will just let my thought free flow and try to share experiences, observation, and opinions about interactions on various social media sites.
I would like to begin with: “if it appears to be too good to be true, trust me, it is not” in you journey down the roads of social media you are going to find many that you will be attracted to and will respond to their profiles or ask to follow. Please remember that a fake profile is very easy to fake. Anyone can create a profile using copied photos and info from other profiles and new accounts both for e and g mails using that information is as easy as hitting the join and send button. This applies to all types of people, both male and female who are famous and not so famious in all different professions, sports, models, hollywood celeberties etc. You will never receive a response from a verified page……These are controlled by what is call a media team and normaly is sponsored by an agience for whom the person has an employment contract for services………Have had no experience with male personalities on social media other that as friends on facebook.
You will be asked to send gift cards, and once sent, they are gone and if sent to a fradluant accout you might as well have thrown the money spent on cards into a catagory five hurricane. Yes, I have been in hurricanes real and on social media.
Only advice on sending funds is to only send via a bank wire transfer an FDIC insured institution, to their named account at a specific bank containing their account and routing number. You can check online when you have the information and if you institute the wire at you bank the routing number may change due to the method of clearing the wire transfer. Never send bitcoins or any other virtual currency wallet. Once bitcoins or gift cards are sent it becomes untraceable and a scammer might go off into the wind into never never land.
In closing, the one thing that I feel is most important is that you research who you are chatting with or think about reaching out to them with few verifications methods. Determine if there are other names with the same name or variations of the name and photos. I have encountered over two hundred people using the same name and different photos but of the same person, that is a red flag even if there are only two with the same name and photos because only one can be real unless they have two profiles and why would you do that?
Will be posting more episodes and maybe words of wisdom within the week.