Strange personal messages

Yup, me too this morning- my first!
Deleted pdq, without reading.

Well, this is what I received today! CSmiles is nothing if not persistent! So easy to be taken in - I haven’t been!

Hello Squiffy, I came across your comments in the Wordlinkle thread and your remark about listening to The Chase while doing the puzzle made me smile. It sounds like you enjoy keeping your mind busy, even if a little distraction sometimes gets in the way. Do you enjoy other quiz shows and word games too, or is Wordlinkle your main daily challenge?

Wheniwasyourage
Who knows ?
I was getting some strange messages on Pinterest recently .
I think that they were guys after dates and perhaps wanting money .
This "person" certainly puts a lot of effort into his posts .
I wondered about a bot.
It's creepy.

Esmay, it seems that we are not dealing with a person who has a foot fetish, but a bot which is presumably trying to glean information from us. Not sad in any way, just annoying, and it makes me wonder who is behind it.

In a way -it's sad because the poster isn't rude ,nasty or unpleasant.
At first ,I found his first post to me odd.
I must admit I did wonder why someone would be so interested in my going barefoot.
Then after the missing my dog ones came I wondered if it were not an elderly lady .

It's a ahane that an innocent post about shoes has generated a response from some one with a fetish .
But one in seven men have a foot fetish apparently.

has anyone had a message from FREED or FREDE...he or she used both names, it was a pm,and I never get these I didn't reply just blocked....I have never seen that name on gransnet before

I was thinking how good it is that we are able to share this information - a real help. Love y’all as they say here !

M0nica

I received one fromChestersmiles as well.

This was the text:
Hi Monica, I came across your post and wanted to reach out with a quiet hello. I’m very sorry for your loss. I know there are no perfect words for a time like this, but I hope you’re surrounded by people who care about you and give you the space to take each day as it comes. I just wanted you to know that someone noticed and wished you a little strength today.

After the wonderful response after I posted my sad post. To now be assailed by an opportunist like this who thinks that hopefully grief has addled my senses and I might well be a soft touch for a scam, sickens me.

So sorry. This kind of thing sickens me too and infuriates me.
What a piece of work.

It was to my reply to M0nica’s original very sad news that Chestersmiles responded to me.
I posted that I knew what she was experiencing which outed me as a widow.
I feel outraged that scammers pick out people when they are vulnerable and play on it.

Gosh that’s awful M0nica

I’ve had one from him too quoting from one of my posts. Very creepy

I received one fromChestersmiles as well.

This was the text:
Hi Monica, I came across your post and wanted to reach out with a quiet hello. I’m very sorry for your loss. I know there are no perfect words for a time like this, but I hope you’re surrounded by people who care about you and give you the space to take each day as it comes. I just wanted you to know that someone noticed and wished you a little strength today.

After the wonderful response after I posted my sad post. To now be assailed by an opportunist like this who thinks that hopefully grief has addled my senses and I might well be a soft touch for a scam, sickens me.

Chestersmiles was impressed with my vocabulary! That’s a first I must say.

I do think that scammers look for ‘hooks’ - a widowed cousin of mine, an educated, intelligent woman was totally taken in by someone she met online who liked art and classical music, shared her tastes. She lived in the US, he allegedly lived in the UK. I offered to meet him in person to suss him out. She offered that, he disappeared.

hollysteers

Chester PMd me and complimented me on my sense of humour 😁
Reported and blocked.

Last night I watched Hey Beautiful on BBCIplayer. The scale of scamming worldwide is astounding and it’s hard to believe people part with such huge amounts of money.

I watched that too, and was equally astounded.

Desdemona

Wheniwasyourage

Oreo, I don't understand why I got messages from a shortbread fetishist from San Francisco, but not from a Nigerian Prince who wants to give me money. It's not fair!

I'm sorry you've been dumped though. You must be very disappointed.

I would probably get along quite well with a shortbread fetishist.

😂😂😂

Chestersmiles is such a lovely name. I'm sorry he has completely ignored me.

Chester PMd me and complimented me on my sense of humour 😁
Reported and blocked.

Last night I watched Hey Beautiful on BBCIplayer. The scale of scamming worldwide is astounding and it’s hard to believe people part with such huge amounts of money.

Wheniwasyourage

*Oreo*, I don't understand why I got messages from a shortbread fetishist from San Francisco, but not from a Nigerian Prince who wants to give me money. It's not fair!

I'm sorry you've been dumped though. You must be very disappointed.

I would probably get along quite well with a shortbread fetishist.

Chestersmiles mentioned having a little dog and it being recently deceased .
He seemed to think that I paint portraits of animals .
He said that it was proving difficult to send me a photo of his pet.
I said never mind and wondered if he'd ask me to send an email address /phone number .
I'm always on red alert .

They're obviously reading lots of comments and personalising the messages. Creepy!

Chestersmiles PM’d me and was very flattering, I was quite happy at first because I don’t get PM’d very often, but then he/she asked what my DDs like to read in the bath which was creepy so I didn’t reply.

shysal - now that’s a compliment you can’t discard 😂

I also had the San Francisco one. I just blocked but didn't report He/she commented on my 'all fours' method of lowering myself into the bath.

The ‘mum, I’ve lost my purse and I’ve had to change my mobile number, please send money ‘ is back in circulation. I had one today 😫

I also had a message from ChesterSmiles, no mention of feet, just what made me like a certain tv programme.

Being one of the most suspicious people I know, I deleted and blocked.